After the death of their son William Morton, the diplomat Laurie Morton and her husband, the scientist Terence Morton adopt a boy, James. From the moment James moves to Morton’s house in the country on, weird things happen with the family.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. 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.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date: 4th Oct 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 01 Jan 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | David Munro | 37 | 24 Oct 1942 | 24.10.1942 | 81 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Camera Operator | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 49 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 12 | 12 | ||
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Marjorie Lavelly | 59 | 12 Apr 1921 | 22 Sep 2006 | 85 | 8 | 8 | ||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Francis Meghay | 45 | 18 Mar 1935 | 1 May 2020 | 85 | 4 | 4 | ||
Director of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | 60 | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 51 | 1 Jan 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 50 | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 01 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 1 Jan 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 55 | 29 Sep 1925 | 1 Jan 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Alan Brownie | 57 | 1 Jan 1923 | 21 Feb 2012 | 89 | 4 | 4 | ||
Music Composer | John McCabe | 41 | 21 Apr 1939 | 13 Feb 2015 | 75 | 6 | 6 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | 1 Apr 2000 | 79 | 12 | 12 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 72 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 46 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1 Jan 1935 | 1 Jan 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Nicholas Palmer | 42 | 19 Oct 1937 | 6 May 1995 | 57 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | Stuart Edwards | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Charles Austin | Tariq Yunus | 33 | 16 Oct 1946 | 26 Aug 1994 | 47 | 1 | 1 | ||
Gravedigger | Geoffrey Beavers | 39 | 15 Jan 1941 | 15.01.1941 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
James | Matthew Blakstad | 13 | 13 Jul 1967 | 13.07.1967 | 56 | 1 | 1 | ||
Laurie Morton | Barbara Kellerman | 30 | 30 Dec 1949 | 30.12.1949 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
Marton | Daphne Anderson | 58 | 27 Apr 1922 | 15 Jan 2013 | 90 | 3 | 3 | ||
Mr Nugenko | Norman Beaton | 45 | 31 Oct 1934 | 13 Dec 1994 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
Nurse | Anna Simone Scott | 23 | 9 Apr 1957 | 9.04.1957 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Terance Morton | Gary Bond | 40 | 7 Feb 1940 | 11 Oct 1995 | 55 | 1 | 1 | ||
William | Christopher Reilly | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Barbara Kellerman appeared with Vincent Price in “The Oblong Box” (1969).
Gary Bond played Private Cole in the 1964 film “Zulu”, he died in of AIDS in 1995, exactly one month after his one time partner, actor Jeremy Brett.