The Corvini Inheritance

© 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: 15th October 1984
Storyline
The lonesome daily routine of a top-notch Security Chief of a London auction-house, who’s a bit nerdy and unstable and so completely obsessed with his work that he even spies on his neighbors from his home seeing it not as an invasion of privacy but as the natural extension of his job, is interrupted when a scared female neighbor rings his doorbell to complain of a ski-masked stalker.
He helps her secure her apartment and falls for her, but she rejects his advances. Meanwhile, the auction-house handles a valuable Renaissance collection which includes a necklace said to bear a deadly curse. It belonged to a medieval nobleman who was betrayed by his wife and killed by her lover, a member of the notorious medieval Corvini assassin family. The jewellery supposedly continued to bring only betrayal, murder and madness to those who later owned it.
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 | Carolyn Scott | 23 | |||
Assistant Art Director | Heather Armitage | 6 | |||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 18 | |||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | |||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 21 Aug 1928 | 92 | 14 | |
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettitt | 14 | |||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 1 Apr 1939 | 81 | 22 | |
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | |||
Director | Gabrielle Beaumont | 7 Apr 1942 | 78 | 1 | |
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 G.B.F.E. | 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 | David Bedford | 4 Aug 1937 | 1 Oct 2011 | 74 | 3 |
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 | David Fisher | 13 Apr 1929 | 10 Jan 2018 | 88 | 3 |
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 |
1st Female Model | Kirstie Pooley | 1 | |||
2nd Female Model | Ruth Burnett | 1959 | 62 | 1 | |
Bob | Benedict Blythe | 1952 | 69 | 1 | |
Brophy | Robert Swales | 1 | |||
Business Man | Martin Weedon | 2 | |||
Collier | Timothy Morand | 1 | |||
Elderly Lady | Mollie Maureen | 16 Aug 1904 | 26 Jan 1987 | 82 | 1 |
Eva Bailey | Jan Francis | 5 Aug 1947 | 73 | 1 | |
Frank Lane | David McCallum | 19 Sep 1933 | 87 | 1 | |
Geoff – Male Model | Christian Fletcher | 2 | |||
Hammond | Terence Alexander | 2 | |||
Jogger | Peter Rumney | 1 | |||
Knowles | Stephen Yardley | 24 Mar 1942 | 78 | 1 | |
Madame Roulier | Marianne Borgo | 1 | |||
Roulier | Paul Bacon | 21 Jan 1927 | 29 Mar 1995 | 68 | 1 |
T.V. Director | Ben Fietelson | 2 | |||
Taxi Driver | Johnny Wade | 1933 | 88 | 1 | |
Viner | Leonard Trolly | 1 Jan 1918 | 10 Feb 2005 | 87 | 1 |
Williams | Peter Attard | 1 Apr 1944 | 76 | 1 |
Footnotes
David McCallum played Illya Kuryakin in the MGM Television series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”.
Jan Francis starred the the BBC TV comedy series “Just Good Friends”.
Terence Alexander played Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV series “Bergerac”.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection