Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense Episode 6
Paint Me a Murder

© 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
ITV London Transmission Date: 29th October 1984
Storyline
A greedy wife suggests to her middle-aged husband, a somewhat successful but unstable artist obsessed with fame who may or may not be basing his paintings on his gloomy premonitions of future without even realizing it, to fake his death in order to get a much higher price for his gloomy paintings. He agrees and sinks his boat near the coastline. The plan works and his paintings are quickly sold out.
However, his art dealer asks for more, so the artist starts painting again while hiding in his loft. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned. For starters, all he can paint are doom and gloom images and the buyers don’t want that anymore. Two happy drunks and art critics start claiming that his new paintings are fakes, since no one had ever seen him draw them while he was alive. Two police inspectors suspect a fraud but can’t yet prove it. The art dealer falls for the wife and she comes clean, so he suggests that they kill her husband for real this time.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
American Casting | William J Kenney | 45 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 | 12 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Art Director | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Ast. Art Director | Heather Armitage | 42 | 1942 | 81 | 6 | 6 | |||
Ast. Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Ast. to Producer | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 48 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 45 | 1 Apr 1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | |||
Director | Alan Cooke | 58 | 29 Mar 1926 | 9 Oct 1994 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photog. | Frank Watts BSc | 55 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Roy Baker | 57 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Bob Dearberg | 45 | 3 Feb 1939 | 8 May 2017 | 78 | 9 | 2 | 11 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 64 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 54 | 1930 | Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 59 | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 59 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Francis Shaw | 42 | 23 Jun 1942 | 81 | 2 | 2 | |||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 77 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 50 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 35 | 1 Jan 1949 | 74 | 13 | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Ast. | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 49 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 56 | 1 Jan 1928 | 95 | 13 | 1 | 14 | ||
Screenplay | Jesse Lasky Jnr | 74 | 19 Sep 1910 | 11 Apr 1988 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Screenplay | Pat Silver | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Still Photog. | John Jay | 63 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 39 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Bag Lady | Peggy Atchison | 63 | 22 Oct 1921 | 29 Jan 1990 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Chief Inspector | Tony Steedman | 57 | 21 Aug 1927 | 4 Feb 2001 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Davey | Alan Lake | 43 | 24 Nov 1940 | 10 Oct 1984 | 43 | 1 | 1 | ||
Det. Inspector Robinson | Mark Heath | 58 | 1926 | 2015 | 88 | 2 | 2 | ||
Kates | Richard LeParmentier | 38 | 16 Jul 1946 | 15 Apr 2013 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Landlady | Jeillo Edwards | 42 | 23 Sep 1942 | 2 Jul 2004 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Luke Lorenz | James Laurenson | 44 | 17 Feb 1940 | 81 | 2 | 2 | |||
Mahffy | William Morgan Sheppard | 52 | 24 Aug 1932 | 6 Jan 2019 | 87 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mrs Patel | Indira Joshi | 42 | 2 Mar 1942 | 81 | 1 | 1 | |||
Police Sergeant | David Millett | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Policeman | Neil Morrissey | 22 | 4 Jul 1962 | 61 | 1 | 1 | |||
Sandra Lorenz | Michelle Phillips | 40 | 4 Jun 1944 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |||
Secretary | Lynn Clayton | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Soames | Michael McKevitt | 53 | 1 Jan 1931 | 14 Jan 2019 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Vicar | Gerald Sim | 59 | 4 Jun 1925 | 11 Dec 2014 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
Vincent Rhodes | David Robb | 37 | 23 Aug 1947 | 76 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Alan Lake was married to two time Hammer actress, Diana Dors.
Michelle Phillips was a singer with the sixties pop group “The Mamas and the Papas”.
A very early part here as a policeman for Neil Morrissey of the BBC TV sitcom “Men Behaving Badly”
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection