A Distant Scream

© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, All rights reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited entirely on location in The United Kingdom and Austria
ITV London Transmission Date: 5th November 1984
Storyline
Lying on his deathbed, an elderly man who has spent most of his life in prison for the murder of the woman he loved is granted a supernatural chance to go back to that fateful weekend and attempt to discover what really happened…
Crew
Function | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Art Director | Carolyn Scott | 23 | |||
Assistant Art Director | Peta Button | 1 Jul 1941 | 79 | 4 | |
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 18 | |||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | |||
Associate Camerman | Terry Cole | 4 | |||
Associate Producer | John Hough | 21 Nov 1941 | 79 | 6 | |
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 21 Aug 1928 | 92 | 14 | |
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 1 Apr 1939 | 81 | 22 | |
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | |||
Director | John Hough | 21 Nov 1941 | 79 | 6 | |
Director of Photography | Brian West BSc | 27 Apr 1928 | 92 | 8 | |
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton GBFE | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Jan 1993 | 63 | 16 |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | |||
Editor | Paul Weatherley GBFE | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 |
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 |
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 |
Music Composed by | Paul Patterson | 15 Jun 1947 | 73 | 8 | |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 |
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 13 | |||
Production Assistant | Sheila Collins | 13 | |||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 34 | |||
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 1928 | 93 | 13 | |
Recorded at | Warwick Dubbing Theatre | ||||
Screenplay | Martin Worth | 1 Nov 1926 | 1 Jul 2018 | 91 | 1 |
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 |
Still Photographer | John Jay | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Clifford | Stephen Grief | 26 Aug 1944 | 76 | 1 | |
Doctor | Bernard Horsefall | 20 Nov 1930 | 29 Jan 2013 | 82 | 1 |
Gary | Stephan Chase | 8 Feb 1945 | 27 Jun 2019 | 74 | 1 |
Michael / Harris | David Carradine | 8 Dec 1936 | 6 Mar 2009 | 72 | 1 |
Mrs Kimble | Fanny Carby | 2 Feb 1925 | 20 Sep 2002 | 77 | 1 |
Prison Officer | Edward Peel | 1943 | 78 | 1 | |
Robin | Ewan Stuart | 8 Oct 1957 | 63 | 1 | |
Rosemary Richardson | Stephanie Beacham | 28 Feb 1948 | 72 | 2 | |
Sarah | Lesley Dunlop | 10 Mar 1956 | 64 | 1 |
Footnotes
Stephanie Beecham played alongside Peter Cushing as Jessica van Helsing, in Hammer’s Dracula A.D.72 (1972).
David Carradine played Caine in the popular Warner Brothers Television series Kung Fu (1972).
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection