Tennis Court

© 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: 27th June 1985
Storyline
A WWII fighter plane crashes and although the pilot escapes, his partner burns. Years later, Maggie and Harry Dowl arrive in England to inspect a house left to Maggie by her mother. The house has a dilapidated tennis court, but this seems to have some force which takes over the daughter of John Bray, the local holy man, as well as causing tennis balls to gush blood and kill people with animated nets.
Crew
Function | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | |||
American Casting | William J Kenney | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 |
Art Director | Heather Armitage | 6 | |||
Assistant Art Director | Steve Hardie | 3 | |||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 18 | |||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | |||
Based on a short story by | Michael Hastings | 2 Sep 1938 | 19 Nov 2011 | 73 | 1 |
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 21 Aug 1928 | 92 | 14 | |
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettitt | 14 | |||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 1 Apr 1939 | 81 | 22 | |
Coutume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | |||
Director | Paul Annett | 19 Jan 1937 | 11 Dec 2017 | 80 | 2 |
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 |
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 | Betty Sherriff | 29 Sep 1925 | 1 Jan 2000 | 74 | 10 |
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 |
Music Composed by | Anthony Payne | 1 Aug 1936 | 84 | 2 | |
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 Garloch | 1928 | 93 | 13 | |
Recorded at | Warwick Dubbing Theatre | ||||
Screenplay | Andrew Sinclair | 21 Jan 1935 | 30 May 2019 | 84 | 1 |
Sound Recordist | Eddie Habden | 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 |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 1 Jan 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Bobby | David Cheesman | 1 | |||
Eileen | Isla Blair | 29 Sep 1944 | 76 | 2 | |
Eldridge | George Little | 1 Dec 1928 | 92 | 1 | |
Harry | Jonathon Newth | 6 Mar 1939 | 81 | 1 | |
Innes | Annis Joslin | 1 | |||
John Bray | Peter Graves | 18 Mar 1926 | 14 Mar 2010 | 83 | 1 |
Maggie Dowl | Hannah Gordon | 9 Apr 1941 | 79 | 1 | |
Magnusson | Cyril Sharps | 13 Oct 1923 | 1 Jan 2003 | 79 | 1 |
Matron | Peggy Sinclair | 1946 | 75 | 1 | |
Raymond Maryott | Ralph Arliss | 1 Sep 1947 | 73 | 1 | |
Young Bray | Marcus Gilbert | 29 Jul 1958 | 62 | 1 |
Footnotes
Peter Graves played Jim Phelps in the Paramount Television series “Mission Impossible” (1966-73). He also played Captain Clarence Oveur in the “Airplane” films.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection