Cast and Crew Deaths
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1989
Details of the 52 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1989 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Cast | Madoline Thomas | 30 Dec 1989 | 99 | 1 | Black Widow | |
Cast | Peter Bennett | 23 Dec 1989 | 72 | 1 | Quatermass and the Pit | |
Cast | Edward Underdown | 15 Dec 1989 | 81 | 1 | The Camp on Blood Island | |
Crew | Sid Colin | 12 Dec 1989 | 74 | 4 | I Only Arsked!, I Only Arsked!, The Ugly Duckling, The Ugly Duckling | |
Cast | Howard Lang | 11 Dec 1989 | 78 | 2 | The Curse of the Werewolf, Frankenstein Created Woman | |
Cast | Peter Burton | 27 Nov 1989 | 68 | 1 | What the Butler Saw | |
Cast | John G. Heller | 19 Nov 1989 | 61 | 1 | A Weekend with Lulu | |
Cast | Alec Mango | 7 Nov 1989 | 78 | 2 | Frankenstein Created Woman, Mask of Dust | |
Cast | Liam Redmond | 28 Oct 1989 | 76 | 1 | 1 | The Glass Cage, The Phantom of the Opera |
Cast | Bette Davis | 6 Oct 1989 | 81 | 2 | The Anniversary, The Nanny | |
Cast | Geoffrey Sumner | 29 Sep 1989 | 80 | 2 | 1 | I Only Arsked!, That’s Your Funeral, Five Days |
Crew | Carl Anderson | 22 Sep 1989 | 86 | 1 | Tales of Frankenstein | |
Crew | Gordon McCallum | 10 Sep 1989 | 70 | 1 | Nearest and Dearest | |
Crew | Clifton Parker | 2 Sep 1989 | 84 | 1 | Taste of Fear | |
Crew | Lionel Couch | 31 Aug 1989 | 76 | 3 | Love Thy Neighbour, The Vengeance of She | |
Crew | Ralph Bond | 29 Aug 1989 | 84 | 1 | Don’t Panic Chaps | |
Cast | John Meillon | 10 Aug 1989 | 55 | 1 | Watch it Sailor | |
Crew | Robert Stevens | 7 Aug 1989 | 68 | 1 | Miss Belle | |
Crew | Dennis Wilson | 15 Jul 1989 | 69 | 1 | The Gambler and the Lady | |
Cast | Tommy Trinder | 10 Jul 1989 | 80 | 1 | The Damned | |
Cast | Vic Perrin | 4 Jul 1989 | 73 | 1 | One Million Years BC | |
Cast | Geoffrey Murphy | 15 Jun 1989 | 68 | 1 | Mantrap | |
Cast | Tony Wright | 7 Jun 1989 | 63 | 1 | The Flanagan Boy | |
Crew | Clay Campbell A.S.C. | 1 Jun 1989 | 88 | 1 | Tales of Frankenstein | |
Cast | Anton Diffring | 19 May 1989 | 72 | 3 | The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Shatter, Tales of Frankenstein | |
Cast | Robert Webber | 19 May 1989 | 64 | 1 | Hysteria | |
Cast | William Squire | 3 May 1989 | 73 | 1 | A Challenge for Robin Hood | |
Cast | George Coulouris | 25 Apr 1989 | 85 | 2 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Mask of Dust | |
Cast | Louis Matto | 16 Apr 1989 | 78 | 4 | The Lady Craved Excitement, Whispering Smith Hits London, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | |
Crew | John Oldknow | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | Eve, Girl of My Dreams, Jane Browns Body, Matakitas is Coming, Miss Belle, One on an Island, Paper Dolls, Poor Butterfly, Somewhere in a Crowd, Stranger in the Family, The Beckoning Fair One, The Indian Spirit Guide, The Killing Bottle, The Last Visitor, The New People, Do Me a Favor and Kill Me | |
Crew | Falkland Carey | 7 Apr 1989 | 92 | 1 | Watch it Sailor | |
Crew | Josephine Knowles | 7 Apr 1989 | 58 | 1 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | |
Cast | Robert Perceval | 5 Apr 1989 | 72 | 1 | The Rossiter Case | |
Cast | Lockwood West | 28 Mar 1989 | 83 | 2 | 1 | Celia, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Man Who Could Cheat Death |
Crew | Reginald le Borg | 25 Mar 1989 | 86 | 1 | The Flanagan Boy | |
Cast | Alan Gifford | 20 Mar 1989 | 78 | 2 | Passport to China, The Sweet Scent of Death | |
Cast | Charles Lamb | 19 Mar 1989 | 88 | 4 | The Curse of the Werewolf, Hands of the Ripper, Quatermass and the Pit, Sword of Sherwood Forest | |
Cast | Harry Andrews | 6 Mar 1989 | 77 | 1 | Man at the Top | |
Crew | Peter Proud | 1 Mar 1989 | 75 | 1 | Fanatic | |
Cast | Robert Dorning | 20 Feb 1989 | 75 | 1 | 2 | Fanatic, Lady in the Fog, Man About the House |
Cast | John Bailey | 11 Feb 1989 | 76 | 4 | Celia, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Last Visitor | |
Cast | Emrys James | 5 Feb 1989 | 60 | 1 | The Mark of Satan | |
Cast | David Buck | 27 Jan 1989 | 52 | 2 | The Mummy's Shroud, Jane Brown’s Body | |
Cast | Alan McClelland | 24 Jan 1989 | 71 | 1 | The Damned | |
Cast | Richard Warner | 14 Jan 1989 | 77 | 3 | The Mummy's Shroud, The Shadow of the Cat, To Have and to Hold | |
Crew | Maurice Arnold | 13 Jan 1989 | 60 | 2 | The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Vengeance of She | |
Crew | William Temple | 1989 | 75 | 1 | Four Sided Triangle | |
Crew | George Provis | 1989 | 81 | 2 | Further Up the Creek, The Viking Queen | |
Cast | Jean Driant | 1989 | 66 | 1 | The Ugly Duckling | |
Crew | Mike Silverlock | 1989 | 46 | 1 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | |
Crew | Len Stevens | 1989 | 1 | The Adventures of PC 48 | ||
Cast | Barry Smith | 1989 | 59 | 1 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter |
1988
Details of the 38 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1988 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Cast | Noel Willman | 24 Dec 1988 | 70 | 3 | The Kiss of the Vampire, The Reptile, The Vengeance of She | |
Crew | Fred Slark | 22 Dec 1988 | 66 | 1 | Face the Music | |
Crew | Edgar Vetter | 15 Dec 1988 | 75 | 15 | A Case for PC 49, The Adventures of PC 49, Black Widow, Celia, Cloudburst, Death of an Angel, Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress, The Lady Craved Excitement, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), Room to Let, The Rossiter Case, Someone at the Door, The Man in Black, To Have and to Hold, What the Butler Saw | |
Cast | Mona Washbourne | 15 Nov 1988 | 84 | 2 | The Brides of Dracula, The Gambler and the Lady | |
Cast | Charles Hawtrey | 27 Oct 1988 | 73 | 3 | Five Days, I Only Arsked!, Room to Let | |
Crew | Fred Davis | 26 Oct 1988 | 52 | 4 | The Dark Road, The Gambler and the Lady, The Flanagan Boy, 36 Hours | |
Cast | Claire Ruane | 15 Oct 1988 | 99 | 1 | That’s Your Funeral | |
Crew | Montgomery Tully | 10 Oct 1988 | 84 | 4 | 36 Hours, Five Days, The Glass Cage, I Only Arsked! | |
Crew | Charles Addams | 29 Sep 1988 | 76 | 1 | 1 | The Old Dark House |
Cast | Christine Norden | 21 Sep 1988 | 63 | 2 | A Case for PC 49, Black Widow | |
Cast | Roy Kinnear | 20 Sep 1988 | 54 | 2 | Taste the Blood of Dracula, That’s Your Funeral | |
Cast | Michael Hogarth | 12 Sep 1988 | 78 | 1 | Whispering Smith Hits London | |
Cast | Charles Farrell | 27 Aug 1988 | 88 | 2 | Countess Dracula, The Vampire Lovers | |
Cast | Frances Rowe | 31 Jul 1988 | 75 | 1 | Never Look Back | |
Cast | Patrick Newell | 22 Jul 1988 | 56 | 1 | Man About the House | |
Crew | Josephine Douglas | 13 Jul 1988 | 61 | 1 | Dracula AD 1971 | |
Cast | Errol John | 10 Jul 1988 | 63 | 1 | Eve | |
Cast | Alexis France | 25 Jun 1988 | 82 | 1 | Stolen Face | |
Cast | Alf Mangan | 16 Jun 1988 | 71 | 4 | The Lyons in Paris, A Challenge for Robin Hood, Vampire Circus, Mutiny on the Buses | |
Cast | Anthony Forwood | 18 May 1988 | 72 | 6 | Black Widow, Five Days, The Gambler and the Lady, Mantrap, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), The Man in Black | |
Cast | Andrew Cruickshank | 29 Apr 1988 | 80 | 1 | The Stranglers of Bombay | |
Crew | Albert Fennell | 17 Apr 1988 | 68 | 2 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde | |
Crew | Jesse Lasky Jnr | 11 Apr 1988 | 77 | 1 | Paint Me a Murder | |
Crew | Anne Blaisdell | 5 Apr 1988 | 77 | 1 | Fanatic | |
Cast | Margery Gresley | 3 Apr 1988 | 78 | 1 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | |
Cast | Marie Burke | 21 Mar 1988 | 93 | 3 | 1 | The Flanagan Boy, The Snorkel, The Terror of the Tongs, The Man Who Could Cheat Death |
Crew | Don Weeks | 1 Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | The Abominable Snowman, The Brides of Dracula, The Brigand of Kandahar, Captain Clegg, Clean Sweep, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Damned, Danger List, The Devil-Ship Pirates, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Dracula, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Gorgon, Hell is a City, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Hysteria, I Only Arsked!, The Kiss of the Vampire, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Mummy, Nightmare, Quatermass 2, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Secret of Blood Island, The Shadow of the Cat, The Snorkel, The Steel Bayonet, The Stranglers of Bombay, Sword of Sherwood Forest, The Ugly Duckling | |
Cast | Gillian Maude | 1 Mar 1988 | 75 | 1 | Dick Barton - Special Agent | |
Crew | Nat Cohen | 10 Feb 1988 | 83 | 2 | Straight on Till Morning, Fear in The Night | |
Cast | Allan Cuthbertson | 8 Feb 1988 | 67 | 3 | Dick Turpin, Highwayman, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Madison Equation | |
Crew | Howard Clewes | 29 Jan 1988 | 75 | 2 | The Steel Bayonet, The Steel Bayonet | |
Cast | Ballard Berkeley | 16 Jan 1988 | 83 | 2 | Further Up the Creek, The Men of Sherwood Forest | |
Crew | L.P. Davies | 6 Jan 1988 | 73 | 1 | Paper Dolls | |
Cast | Stuart Saunders | 4 Jan 1988 | 78 | 1 | 1 | Room to Let, Lady in the Fog |
Crew | Denis Wreford | 1988 | 82 | 5 | Celia, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), Room to Let, Someone at the Door, The Man in Black | |
Crew | Cliff Sandall | 1988 | 84 | 2 | 1 | Quatermass 2, The Steel Bayonet, X - The Unknown |
Cast | Frank Hayden | 1988 | 58 | 4 | 1 | Creatures the World Forgot, The Lost Continent, One Million Years BC, Slave Girls, The Viking Queen |
Cast | Roy Denton | 1988 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll |
1987
Details of the 45 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1987 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Leslie Arliss | 30 Dec 1987 | 86 | 1 | Danger List | |
Cast | Andre Dakar | 30 Dec 1987 | 90 | 1 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | |
Crew | Cyril Swern | 1 Dec 1987 | 66 | 2 | Hysteria, Maniac | |
Cast | Ian Wilson | 1 Dec 1987 | 86 | 4 | 4 | The Lady Craved Excitement, The Last Page, The Phantom of the Opera, Whispering Smith Hits London, The Flanagam Boy, The Saint’s Return, The Glass Cage, The Ugly Duckling |
Cast | Irene Handl | 29 Nov 1987 | 85 | 2 | A Weekend with Lulu, Watch it Sailor | |
Cast | Raymond Francis | 24 Oct 1987 | 76 | 1 | The Steel Bayonet | |
Crew | Bob Simmons | 21 Oct 1987 | 65 | 2 | 1 | The Flanagan Boy, Captain Clegg, The Pirates of Blood River |
Cast | John Chandos | 21 Sep 1987 | 70 | 1 | 36 Hours | |
Cast | Pat Hagan | 15 Sep 1987 | 94 | 1 | The House Across the Lake | |
Cast | Harry Locke | 7 Sep 1987 | 74 | 2 | The Devil-Ship Pirates, Watch it Sailor | |
Cast | Bill Fraser | 5 Sep 1987 | 79 | 4 | Clean Sweep, Lady in the Fog, Love Thy Neighbour, That’s Your Funeral | |
Crew | David Bracknell | 1 Sep 1987 | 55 | 1 | Lust for a Vampire | |
Cast | Philip Friend | 1 Sep 1987 | 72 | 2 | Danger List, Dick Turpin, Highwayman | |
Cast | Uli Steigberg | 1 Sep 1987 | 64 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
Crew | Alan Arnold | 29 Aug 1987 | 1 | The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | ||
Cast | Joan Haythorne | 27 Aug 1987 | 72 | 1 | Countess Dracula | |
Crew | Roy Norman | 16 Aug 1987 | 66 | 3 | The Curse of Frankenstein, The Camp on Blood Island, The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
Cast | Sydney Bromley | 14 Aug 1987 | 78 | 5 | Captain Clegg, The Dark Road, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Paranoiac, Slave Girls | |
Crew | Henry Passmore | 1 Aug 1987 | 82 | 4 | The Mystery of the Marie Celeste, The Public Life of Henry the Ninth, Song of Freedom, Sporting Love | |
Cast | Alfie Bass | 15 Jul 1987 | 71 | 3 | A Challenge for Robin Hood, I Only Arsked!, Murder by Proxy | |
Cast | Patience Collier | 13 Jul 1987 | 76 | 1 | Countess Dracula | |
Cast | John Singer | 7 Jul 1987 | 63 | 2 | Further Up the Creek, Whispering Smith Hits London | |
Crew | Alan Gibson | 5 Jul 1987 | 49 | 8 | Crescendo, Dracula AD 1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Jane Browns Body, Poor Butterfly, Somewhere in a Crowd, Two Faces of Evil, Silent Scream | |
Cast | Alan Page | 5 Jul 1987 | 65 | 1 | The Curse of the Werewolf | |
Cast | Colin Blakeley | 7 May 1987 | 56 | 1 | The Vengeance of She | |
Cast | Michael Gover | 2 May 1987 | 73 | 1 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | |
Crew | Aubrey Baring | 30 Apr 1987 | 74 | 1 | The Abominable Snowman | |
Cast | Hugh Dempster | 30 Apr 1987 | 86 | 1 | The House Across the Lake | |
Cast | Arthur Lane | 28 Apr 1987 | 76 | 2 | Face the Music, Wings of Danger | |
Crew | Catherine Kuttner | 4 Apr 1987 | 76 | 1 | Tales of Frankenstein | |
Crew | Ernest Taylor | 1 Apr 1987 | 74 | 8 | Moon Zero Two, Eve, Jane Browns Body, Matakitas is Coming, Miss Belle, Paper Dolls, Poor Butterfly, Stranger in the Family | |
Cast | Patrick Troughton | 28 Mar 1987 | 67 | 5 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Gorgon, The Phantom of the Opera, Scars of Dracula, The Viking Queen | |
Cast | Reg Lye | 23 Mar 1987 | 74 | 2 | A Challenge for Robin Hood, The Lost Continent | |
Cast | Robert Preston | 21 Mar 1987 | 68 | 1 | Cloudburst | |
Cast | Joe Gladwin | 11 Mar 1987 | 81 | 1 | Nearest and Dearest | |
Cast | John Collin | 25 Feb 1987 | 58 | 2 | 1 | Man at the Top, The Witches, The Pirates of Blood River |
Cast | Edith Saville | 16 Feb 1987 | 92 | 1 | Four Sided Triangle | |
Crew | Ted Lloyd | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | A Weekend with Lulu, A Weekend with Lulu, A Weekend with Lulu | |
Crew | Noel Howard | 7 Feb 1987 | 66 | 1 | One on an Island | |
Cast | Mollie Maureen | 26 Jan 1987 | 82 | 1 | The Corvini Inheritance | |
Crew | Don Alton | 18 Jan 1987 | 73 | 9 | Blood Orange, Face the Music, The House Across the Lake, The Stranger Came Home, The Men of Sherwood Forest, Mask of Dust, Break in the Circle, Third Party Risk, The Quatermass Xperiment | |
Cast | Geraldine Gardner | 9 Jan 1987 | 36 | 1 | Last Video and Testament | |
Cast | Milton Reid | 1987 | 69 | 1 | 3 | Captain Clegg, The Camp on Blood Island, Passport to China, The Terror of the Tongs |
Cast | Tim Turner | 1987 | 62 | 1 | 1 | Mask of Dust, The Mummy's Shroud |
Crew | J. Woodiwiss | 1987 | 77 | 1 | Blood Orange, Face the Music, The House Across the Lake, The Men of Sherwood Forest, Break in the Circle, The Quatermass Xperiment |
1986
Total deaths in year 38
Details of the 38 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1986 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Cast | Susan Richards | 24 Dec 1986 | 88 | 1 | Poor Butterfly | |
Crew | Maurice Askew | 11 Dec 1986 | 70 | 2 | 1 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Steel Bayonet, The Viking Queen |
Cast | Robert Lee | 1 Dec 1986 | 73 | 1 | 2 | Mark of the Devil, Passport to China, Moon Zero Two |
Cast | Graham Tonbridge | 30 Nov 1986 | 80 | 1 | Cash on Demand | |
Cast | Dolly Bouwmeester | 8 Nov 1986 | 73 | 1 | Jack of Diamonds | |
Crew | Jimmy Komisarjevsky | 1 Nov 1986 | 66 | 1 | The Curse of Frankenstein | |
Crew | George Blackler | 30 Oct 1986 | 74 | 7 | 1 | Love Thy Neighbour, Lust for a Vampire, Man at the Top, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Straight On Till Morning, To the Devil A Daughter, Twins of Evil, Dracula AD 1971 |
Crew | John Braine | 28 Oct 1986 | 64 | 1 | Man at the Top | |
Cast | Forrest Tucker | 25 Oct 1986 | 67 | 2 | The Abominable Snowman, Break in the Circle | |
Cast | William Sherwood | 30 Sep 1986 | 88 | 1 | Dracula | |
Crew | Dennis Spooner | 20 Sep 1986 | 53 | 1 | And the Wall Came Tumbling Down | |
Cast | Doris Gilmore | 19 Sep 1986 | 83 | 1 | Women Without Men | |
Cast | Hermione Baddeley | 19 Aug 1986 | 79 | 2 | Women Without Men, Eve | |
Crew | James Snow | 1 Aug 1986 | 83 | 1 | Dracula Has Risen from the Grave | |
Cast | Diana King | 31 Jul 1986 | 67 | 2 | Fanatic, Black Carrion | |
Cast | Mark Singleton | 24 Jul 1986 | 67 | 2 | The Gambler and the Lady, Face the Music | |
Crew | Inman Hunter | 1 Jul 1986 | 71 | 5 | Eve, Matakitas is Coming, Miss Belle, The Killing Bottle, The Last Visitor | |
Cast | George Howe | 1 Jul 1986 | 86 | 1 | That’s Your Funeral | |
Cast | Nigel Stock | 22 Jun 1986 | 66 | 1 | The Lost Continent | |
Cast | Reed de Rouen | 11 Jun 1986 | 65 | 1 | 1 | Lady in the Fog, Blood Orange |
Cast | Clifford Mollison | 4 Jun 1986 | 89 | 3 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Love Thy Neighbour, That’s Your Funeral | |
Cast | Joan Carol | 29 May 1986 | 80 | 2 | The Dark Light, Jack of Diamonds | |
Cast | Anthony Pendrell | 7 May 1986 | 72 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
Cast | Hylda Baker | 1 May 1986 | 81 | 1 | Nearest and Dearest | |
Crew | Bluey Hill | 1 Apr 1986 | 74 | 5 | The Mummy's Shroud, Eve, Matakitas is Coming, The Last Visitor, Do Me a Favor and Kill Me | |
Crew | Victor Canning | 21 Feb 1986 | 74 | 1 | A Man on the Beach | |
Cast | Lawrence James | 21 Feb 1986 | 58 | 1 | X - The Unknown | |
Crew | Ben Nye | 9 Feb 1986 | 79 | 1 | The Anniversary | |
Cast | Dandy Nichols | 6 Feb 1986 | 78 | 1 | The Glass Cage | |
Cast | Antony Viccars | 5 Feb 1986 | 74 | 1 | Frankenstein Created Woman | |
Cast | Mickey Varey | 1 Feb 1986 | 55 | 2 | Quatermass and the Pit, Twins of Evil | |
Cast | Alex Munro | 20 Jan 1986 | 74 | 1 | Holiday on the Buses | |
Cast | Mark Mailcz | 17 Jan 1986 | 77 | 1 | Czech Mate | |
Crew | Pamela Davies | 5 Jan 1986 | 1 | The Damned | ||
Cast | Thomas Heathcote | 5 Jan 1986 | 78 | 4 | Blood Orange, Cloudburst, Demons of the Mind, Quatermass and the Pit | |
Crew | Arthur Allcott | 4 Jan 1986 | 91 | 1 | Song of Freedom | |
Cast | Ross Hutchinson | 1 Jan 1986 | 80 | 1 | Five Days | |
Crew | Elisabeth Blattner | 1986 | 71 | 3 | Somewhere in a Crowd, The Beckoning Fair One, The Last Visitor |
1985
Details of the 36 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1985 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Philip Mackie | 23 Dec 1985 | 67 | 1 | The Right Person | |
Crew | Cliff Richardson | 5 Dec 1985 | 80 | 1 | The Lost Continent | |
Cast | David Oxley | 30 Oct 1985 | 64 | 2 | The Hound of the Baskervilles, Yesterday’s Enemy | |
Crew | A.W. Lumkin | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | The Anniversary, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, The Brigand of Kandahar, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter, Crescendo, Demons of the Mind, The Devil Rides Out, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Dracula AD 1972, Fear in the Night, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Hell is a City, Holiday on the Buses, The Horror of Frankenstein, The Lost Continent, Lust for a Vampire, Man About the House, Moon Zero Two, Mutiny On The Buses, The Nanny, On the Buses, One Million Years BC, Scars of Dracula, She, Slave Girls, Straight On Till Morning, Taste the Blood of Dracula, To the Devil A Daughter, The Vampire Lovers, The Vengeance of She | |
Crew | Robert Henderson | 9 Sep 1985 | 80 | 1 | 36 Hours | |
Cast | Patrick Barr | 29 Aug 1985 | 77 | 3 | Death of an Angel, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, To Have and to Hold | |
Cast | Reg Lever | 18 Aug 1985 | 81 | 1 | Wolfshead | |
Cast | Helen Goss | 1 Aug 1985 | 81 | 2 | The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
Cast | Robert Raglan | 18 Jul 1985 | 76 | 1 | Slave Girls | |
Cast | Elsie Wagstaff | 16 Jul 1985 | 86 | 2 | Celia, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
Cast | Ewen Solon | 7 Jul 1985 | 67 | 5 | 1 | The Curse of the Werewolf, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Rossiter Case, The Terror of the Tongs, Somewhere in a Crowd, The Stranglers of Bombay |
Crew | Kenneth McCallum Tait | 1 Jul 1985 | 69 | 2 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter, One Million Years BC | |
Cast | Henry Mollison | 1 Jul 1985 | 80 | 1 | What the Butler Saw | |
Crew | Roy Hyde | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, The Brigand of Kandahar, Creatures the World Forgot, Crescendo, The Devil-Ship Pirates, The Evil of Frankenstein, Fanatic, Fear in the Night, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Gorgon, Holiday on the Buses, Hysteria, Love Thy Neighbour, Man About the House, Moon Zero Two, The Mummy, The Mummy's Shroud, Quatermass and the Pit, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Reptile, Scars of Dracula, Slave Girls, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Ten Seconds to Hell, Vampire Circus, The Vampire Lovers, The Vengeance of She, The Witches, Yesterday’s Enemy, She |
Cast | Valentine Dyall | 24 Jun 1985 | 78 | 3 | Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress, Room to Let, The Man in Black, Lust for a Vampire | |
Cast | Bob Raymond | 19 Jun 1985 | 81 | 1 | A Weekend with Lulu | |
Cast | Clifford Evans | 9 Jun 1985 | 73 | 2 | The Curse of the Werewolf, The Kiss of the Vampire | |
Cast | Gordon Rollings | 7 Jun 1985 | 59 | 1 | 1 | Captain Clegg, A Weekend with Lulu |
Crew | Len Shilton | 1 Jun 1985 | 75 | 4 | 1 | Hell is a City, One Million Years BC, Slave Girls, Taste of Fear, Lust for a Vampire |
Cast | Richard Greene | 1 Jun 1985 | 66 | 2 | Sword of Sherwood Forest | |
Crew | Roy Plomley | 28 May 1985 | 71 | 2 | Celia, Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress | |
Cast | Gerald Case | 22 May 1985 | 80 | 3 | Cloudburst, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), The Man in Black | |
Cast | Hugh Burden | 17 May 1985 | 72 | 1 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | |
Cast | Dawn Addams | 7 May 1985 | 54 | 2 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, The Vampire Lovers | |
Cast | George Pravda | 30 Apr 1985 | 66 | 1 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | |
Cast | John Welsh | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 | Nightmare, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Women Without Men, Paper Dolls | |
Crew | Bryan Coates | 19 Mar 1985 | 62 | 1 | A Challenge for Robin Hood | |
Crew | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | The Abominable Snowman, The Brides of Dracula, The Brigand of Kandahar, The Camp on Blood Island, Cash on Demand, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Damned, The Devil Rides Out, The Devil-Ship Pirates, Dracula, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Gorgon, The Hound of the Baskervilles, I Only Arsked!, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Mummy, The Mummy's Shroud, Never Look Back , Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, Passport to China, The Pirates of Blood River, The Plague of the Zombies, Quatermass 2, Quatermass and the Pit, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Reptile, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Scarlet Blade, Secret of Blood Island, Secret of Blood Island, The Snorkel, The Steel Bayonet, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Terror of the Tongs, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, Watch it Sailor, The Witches | |
Cast | Joan Seton | 14 Mar 1985 | 63 | 1 | A Case for PC 49 | |
Cast | Andrew Osborn | 11 Mar 1985 | 74 | 3 | Blood Orange, Murder by Proxy, Spaceways | |
Crew | Runme Shaw | 2 Mar 1985 | 84 | 1 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | |
Cast | Louis Hayward | 21 Feb 1985 | 75 | 1 | The Saint’s Return | |
Cast | Wilfrid Brambell | 18 Jan 1985 | 72 | 1 | Holiday on the Buses | |
Cast | David Birks | 1985 | 70 | 1 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
Crew | Dan Grimmel | 1985 | 69 | 2 | 1 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shatter, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb |
Crew | Ernie Cousins | 1985 | 63 | 1 | A Weekend with Lulu |
1984
Details of the 52 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1984 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Harry Waxman BSc | 24 Dec 1984 | 72 | 3 | The Anniversary, The Nanny, She | |
Cast | Ian Hendry | 24 Dec 1984 | 53 | 1 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter | |
Cast | Sidney Vivian | 22 Dec 1984 | 83 | 3 | Dick Barton Strikes Back, Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress, Whispering Smith Hits London | |
Cast | Lennard Pearce | 15 Dec 1984 | 69 | 1 | Witching Time | |
Cast | Kenneth Kove | 1 Dec 1984 | 92 | 2 | The Bank Messenger Mystery, The Evil of Frankenstein | |
Crew | John Gilling | 22 Nov 1984 | 72 | 21 | The Brigand of Kandahar, The Brigand of Kandahar, The Gorgon, The Lady Craved Excitement, The Mummy's Shroud, The Mummy's Shroud, The Pirates of Blood River, The Pirates of Blood River, The Plague of the Zombies, The Reptile, Room to Let, The Scarlet Blade, The Scarlet Blade, Secret of Blood Island, The Shadow of the Cat, The Man in Black, Whispering Smith Hits London, Wings of Danger | |
Cast | Denis Cleary | 21 Nov 1984 | 57 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
Cast | Peter Welch | 20 Nov 1984 | 62 | 1 | Secret of Blood Island | |
Cast | Skip Martin | 4 Nov 1984 | 56 | 1 | Vampire Circus | |
Cast | Tony Hilton | 28 Oct 1984 | 56 | 1 | Face the Music | |
Cast | Noel Howlett | 26 Oct 1984 | 81 | 3 | Cloudburst, The Kiss of the Vampire, Quatermass and the Pit | |
Cast | Alan Lake | 10 Oct 1984 | 43 | 1 | Paint Me a Murder | |
Cast | Joan Young | 9 Oct 1984 | 84 | 1 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | |
Cast | Leonard Rossiter | 5 Oct 1984 | 57 | 1 | The Witches | |
Cast | Toke Townley | 28 Sep 1984 | 71 | 2 | 1 | The Men of Sherwood Forest, Scars of Dracula, The Quatermass Xperiment |
Crew | Donna Holloway | 27 Sep 1984 | 66 | 1 | The Old Dark House | |
Cast | Richard Basehart | 17 Sep 1984 | 70 | 1 | Passport to China | |
Cast | Gordon Crier | 16 Sep 1984 | 71 | 1 | Face the Music | |
Crew | John Hunter | 8 Sep 1984 | 73 | 4 | Never Look Back , Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, The Pirates of Blood River, The Rossiter Case | |
Crew | Roy Whybrow | 20 Aug 1984 | 56 | 1 | The Lost Continent | |
Crew | J.B. Priestley | 14 Aug 1984 | 89 | 1 | The Old Dark House | |
Cast | Michael Mulcaster | 10 Aug 1984 | 72 | 3 | 3 | The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Brides of Dracula, The Pirates of Blood River |
Cast | Lally Bowers | 18 Jul 1984 | 67 | 1 | Dracula AD 1972 | |
Crew | Thomas Blakeley | 16 Jul 1984 | 67 | 1 | Never Look Back | |
Crew | Richard Burrell | 13 Jul 1984 | 59 | 1 | ||
Cast | Hugh Morton | 11 Jul 1984 | 81 | 4 | Life with the Lyons, The Lyons in Paris, Quatermass and the Pit, Mark of the Devil | |
Cast | Tommy Godfrey | 24 Jun 1984 | 68 | 2 | Love Thy Neighbour, Straight On Till Morning | |
Crew | Joseph Losey | 22 Jun 1984 | 75 | 2 | 1 | A Man on the Beach, The Damned, X - The Unknown |
Cast | Edith Sharpe | 6 Jun 1984 | 89 | 2 | Cash on Demand, Cloudburst | |
Cast | Peter Bull | 20 May 1984 | 72 | 1 | The Old Dark House | |
Crew | Peter Armsten | 10 May 1984 | 68 | 1 | Don’t Panic Chaps | |
Cast | Diana Dors | 4 May 1984 | 52 | 3 | The Last Page, The Saint’s Return, Children of the Full Moon | |
Cast | Frank Forsyth | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | 2 | The Dark Road, The Evil of Frankenstein, Eve, Nightmare, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave |
Cast | Kenji Takaki | 1 May 1984 | 90 | 1 | The Camp on Blood Island | |
Crew | Marcus Dods | 30 Apr 1984 | 66 | 4 | The Gambler and the Lady, The Gorgon, Mantrap, Secret of Blood Island | |
Cast | Chan Shen | 26 Apr 1984 | 44 | 1 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | |
Cast | Verne Morgan | 23 Apr 1984 | 83 | 3 | 1 | Man at the Top, That’s Your Funeral, The Ugly Duckling, Women Without Men |
Crew | A.R. Rawlinson | 20 Apr 1984 | 89 | 4 | Celia, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), Someone at the Door, What the Butler Saw | |
Cast | Francis De Wolff | 18 Apr 1984 | 71 | 3 | 1 | The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, The Curse of the Werewolf |
Cast | Lionel Harris | 11 Apr 1984 | 61 | 1 | Lady in the Fog | |
Cast | William Kendall | 1 Apr 1984 | 80 | 1 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll |
Cast | Jack Howarth | 31 Mar 1984 | 88 | 1 | Lady in the Fog | |
Cast | Derek Francis | 27 Mar 1984 | 60 | 3 | Captain Clegg, Rasputin the Mad Monk, To the Devil, A Daughter | |
Cast | John Dearth | 17 Mar 1984 | 63 | 1 | The Shadow of the Cat | |
Cast | Arnold Ridley | 12 Mar 1984 | 88 | 1 | Stolen Face | |
Cast | Geoffrey Lumsden | 4 Mar 1984 | 69 | 1 | The Horror of Frankenstein | |
Cast | John Comer | 11 Feb 1984 | 59 | 1 | Hell is a City | |
Cast | Pierre Dudan | 4 Feb 1984 | 68 | 1 | The Lyons in Paris | |
Crew | Ernest Laszlo | 6 Jan 1984 | 85 | 1 | Ten Seconds to Hell | |
Cast | Jameson Clark | 4 Jan 1984 | 77 | 1 | X - The Unknown | |
Crew | Peter Keen | 1984 | 48 | 1 | On the Buses | |
Cast | Winifred Sabine | 1984 | 83 | 1 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell |
1983
Total deaths in year 36
Details of the 36 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1983 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Cast | Charles Lloyd-Pack | 22 Dec 1983 | 81 | 8 | 1 | Dracula, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Further Up the Creek, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Quatermass 2, The Reptile, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Terror of the Tongs, The Man Who Could Cheat Death |
Cast | Barbara Markham | 19 Dec 1983 | 73 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
Cast | John Rudling | 18 Dec 1983 | 76 | 1 | The Killing Bottle | |
Cast | David Markham | 15 Dec 1983 | 70 | 2 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, The Right Person | |
Cast | Dorothy Batley | 8 Dec 1983 | 81 | 1 | The Rossiter Case | |
Crew | Robert Aldrich | 5 Dec 1983 | 65 | 2 | Ten Seconds to Hell, Ten Seconds to Hell | |
Cast | Joan Fred Emney | 1 Dec 1983 | 82 | 1 | Song of Freedom | |
Cast | John Le Mesurier | 15 Nov 1983 | 71 | 1 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
Cast | Gillian Lind | 25 Oct 1983 | 79 | 1 | Fear in the Night | |
Cast | Benito Carruthers | 27 Sep 1983 | 47 | 1 | The Lost Continent | |
Cast | Cal McCord | 24 Sep 1983 | 69 | 1 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | |
Crew | Peter Curtis | 10 Sep 1983 | 79 | 1 | The Witches | |
Cast | Constance Luttrell | 10 Sep 1983 | 92 | 1 | Dracula AD 1972 | |
Cast | Peter Arne | 1 Aug 1983 | 62 | 1 | The Pirates of Blood River | |
Cast | Norman Chappell | 21 Jul 1983 | 57 | 3 | Love Thy Neighbour, Nearest and Dearest, Poor Butterfly | |
Cast | Derek Godfrey | 18 Jun 1983 | 59 | 2 | Hands of the Ripper, The Vengeance of She | |
Cast | George Benson | 17 Jun 1983 | 72 | 2 | Dracula, Paper Dolls | |
Crew | Margurite Green | 4 Jun 1983 | 61 | 1 | Maniac | |
Crew | Wilfred Shingleton | 1 Jun 1983 | 69 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
Cast | George Cormack | 27 May 1983 | 75 | 1 | Demons of the Mind | |
Cast | John Barrett | 22 May 1983 | 73 | 1 | 1 | Nearest and Dearest, The Witches |
Cast | John Penrose | 22 May 1983 | 69 | 2 | The Adventures of PC 49, Mantrap | |
Crew | Eric Besche | 17 Apr 1983 | 68 | 2 | Passport to China, Don’t Panic Chaps | |
Crew | Elisabeth Lutyens | 14 Apr 1983 | 76 | 2 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, Paranoiac | |
Cast | Stephen Murray | 31 Mar 1983 | 70 | 1 | Four Sided Triangle | |
Cast | James Hayter | 27 Mar 1983 | 75 | 3 | A Challenge for Robin Hood, Four Sided Triangle, The Horror of Frankenstein | |
Crew | David Alexander | 6 Mar 1983 | 69 | 1 | The Madison Equation | |
Crew | Michael Stainer-Hutchins | 5 Mar 1983 | 61 | 1 | 1 | The Devil Rides Out, The Devil Rides Out |
Cast | Jessie Evans | 2 Mar 1983 | 64 | 1 | Countess Dracula | |
Cast | Gilbert Davis | 28 Feb 1983 | 83 | 1 | Quatermass 2 | |
Crew | Wally Veevers | 14 Feb 1983 | 96 | 1 | Moon Zero Two | |
Crew | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 36 Hours, A Weekend with Lulu, Blood Orange, Face the Music, Five Days, The Flanagan Boy, Four Sided Triangle, The Gambler and the Lady, The House Across the Lake, Lady in the Fog, The Last Page, Life with the Lyons, Murder by Proxy, Spaceways, Stolen Face, The Saint’s Return, Wings of Danger | ||
Crew | Michael Style | 1983 | 49 | 4 | Lust for a Vampire, Twins of Evil, The Vampire Lovers, The Vampire Lovers | |
Crew | Tommy Staples | 1983 | 2 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shatter | ||
Cast | Michael Golden | 1983 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 36 Hours, Murder by Proxy, Women Without Men, Women Without Men |
Cast | Marialla Capes | 1983 | 1 | The Terror of the Tongs |
1982
Details of the 34 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1982 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Gert Andersen A.S.C. | 26 Dec 1982 | 75 | 1 | Tales of Frankenstein | |
Crew | Roy Webb | 10 Dec 1982 | 94 | 1 | The Saint’s Return | |
Cast | George Tovey | 4 Dec 1982 | 68 | 2 | Love Thy Neighbour, The House That Bled to Death | |
Crew | Brian Probyn BSc | 25 Nov 1982 | 61 | 6 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Holiday on the Buses, Man at the Top, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Shatter, Straight On Till Morning | |
Crew | Philip Green | 6 Oct 1982 | 71 | 1 | 1 | Don’t Panic Chaps, The Adventures of PC 49 |
Crew | Trevor Crole-Rees | 1 Oct 1982 | 64 | 1 | Demons of the Mind, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde | |
Cast | Barry Steele | 30 Sep 1982 | 61 | 2 | X - The Unknown, Yesterday’s Enemy | |
Cast | Lucy Griffiths | 29 Sep 1982 | 63 | 1 | 3 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Ugly Duckling, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, The Phantom of the Opera |
Cast | Russell Waters | 19 Aug 1982 | 74 | 4 | Death of an Angel, The Devil Rides Out, Third Party Risk, Yesterday’s Enemy | |
Cast | Patrick Magee | 14 Aug 1982 | 60 | 1 | Demons of the Mind | |
Cast | Tom Chatto | 8 Aug 1982 | 61 | 1 | Quatermass 2 | |
Cast | Budd Knap | 6 Aug 1982 | 69 | 1 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | |
Cast | John Harvey | 19 Jul 1982 | 70 | 12 | 1 | A Challenge for Robin Hood, Black Widow, The Dark Light, Dick Barton Strikes Back, The Kiss of the Vampire, The Old Dark House, The Phantom of the Opera, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Scarlet Blade, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Ugly Duckling, X - The Unknown, Hell is a City |
Cast | Michael Brennan | 29 Jun 1982 | 69 | 1 | Lust for a Vampire | |
Cast | George Hilsdon | 28 May 1982 | 75 | 7 | The Gambler and the Lady, Quatermass 2, The Ugly Duckling, Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, The Pirates of Blood River, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Quatermass and the Pit | |
Crew | Humphrey Searle | 12 May 1982 | 66 | 1 | The Abominable Snowman | |
Cast | Harold Goldblatt | 22 Apr 1982 | 82 | 2 | The Reptile, The Scarlet Blade | |
Cast | Arthur Lowe | 15 Apr 1982 | 66 | 2 | The Lady Vanishes, Man About the House | |
Cast | Ann Codrington | 29 Mar 1982 | 87 | 1 | The Rossiter Case | |
Cast | Sam Kydd | 26 Mar 1982 | 67 | 7 | Further Up the Creek, The Glass Cage, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Moon Zero Two, The Quatermass Xperiment, The Saint’s Return, Up the Creek | |
Cast | Harry H. Corbett | 21 Mar 1982 | 57 | 1 | Never Look Back | |
Cast | Cavan Malone | 8 Mar 1982 | 45 | 1 | Further Up the Creek | |
Cast | Betty Woolfe | 8 Feb 1982 | 80 | 1 | Girl of My Dreams | |
Cast | Helen Ford | 19 Jan 1982 | 87 | 1 | The Curse of Frankenstein | |
Crew | Robert Lynn | 15 Jan 1982 | 63 | 7 | The Abominable Snowman, The Camp on Blood Island, Clean Sweep, Danger List, Dracula, Dracula AD 1972, The Revenge of Frankenstein | |
Cast | Ronald Lewis | 11 Jan 1982 | 53 | 3 | The Brigand of Kandahar, The Full Treatment, Taste of Fear | |
Cast | Gregoire Aslan | 8 Jan 1982 | 73 | 1 | The Snorkel | |
Crew | Klara Kerpin | 1982 | 72 | 7 | Eve, Jane Browns Body, Matakitas is Coming, Miss Belle, Paper Dolls, Poor Butterfly, Stranger in the Family | |
Crew | Charles Parkhouse | 1982 | 74 | 1 | Jack of Diamonds | |
Crew | C.T. Mason | 1982 | 78 | 1 | The Lyons in Paris | |
Cast | Harriet Petworth | 1982 | 92 | 1 | Room to Let | |
Crew | Feliks Sergejak | 1982 | 76 | 4 | Maniac, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Witches, Frankenstein Created Woman | |
Crew | Thomas Goswell | 1982 | 90 | 5 | The Curse of the Werewolf, The Terror of the Tongs, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Taste oif Fear, Frankenstein Created Woman | |
Crew | Gilbert Wood | 1982 | 78 | 2 |
1981
Details of the 32 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1981 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Hugh Richards | 19 Dec 1981 | 61 | 1 | The Anniversary | |
Crew | Bob Kindred | 1 Dec 1981 | 58 | 1 | Hands of the Ripper | |
Crew | Sid Stone | 18 Nov 1981 | 66 | 4 | One on an Island, Somewhere in a Crowd, The New People, Do Me a Favor and Kill Me | |
Cast | Arthur Lovegrove | 7 Nov 1981 | 68 | 3 | 6 | Break in the Circle, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), The Steel Bayonet, The Adventures of PC 49, The Lyons in Paris, Murder by Proxy, The Quatermass Xperiment, Yesterday’s Enemy, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll |
Crew | Don Picton | 1 Nov 1981 | 65 | 15 | 2 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Crescendo, Fear in the Night, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Holiday on the Buses, The Lost Continent, Love Thy Neighbour, Man About the House, Man at the Top, Mutiny On The Buses, Nearest and Dearest, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, That’s Your Funeral, To the Devil A Daughter, Vampire Circus, Scars of Dracula, The Horror of Frankenstein |
Crew | Edith Head | 24 Oct 1981 | 83 | 1 | Stolen Face | |
Crew | James Liggat | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter, Creatures the World Forgot, Demons of the Mind, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Dracula AD 1972, Fear in the Night, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Love Thy Neighbour, Man at the Top, Nearest and Dearest, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Straight On Till Morning, That’s Your Funeral, Vampire Circus, Eve, Girl of My Dreams, Jane Browns Body, Matakitas is Coming, Miss Belle, One on an Island, Paper Dolls, Poor Butterfly, Somewhere in a Crowd, Stranger in the Family, The Beckoning Fair One, The Indian Spirit Guide, The Madison Equation, The New People, Do Me a Favor and Kill Me, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil |
Cast | Nigel Patrick | 21 Sep 1981 | 69 | 1 | Jack of Diamonds | |
Crew | Bill Warrington | 11 Sep 1981 | 71 | 2 | 2 | The Mummy, Quatermass 2, Yesterday’s Enemy, Quatermass and the Pit |
Cast | David Peel | 4 Sep 1981 | 61 | 1 | The Brides of Dracula | |
Cast | Will Stampe | 1 Sep 1981 | 60 | 1 | Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde | |
Cast | Eddie Byrne | 21 Aug 1981 | 70 | 2 | The Mummy, The Killing Bottle | |
Cast | Shirley Gray | 12 Aug 1981 | 79 | 1 | The Mystery of the Marie Celeste | |
Cast | Malcolm Hayes | 27 Jul 1981 | 67 | 1 | Two Faces of Evil | |
Crew | Kay Rawlings | 1 Jul 1981 | 63 | 3 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Lady Vanishes, Maniac | |
Cast | Don Megowan | 26 Jun 1981 | 59 | 1 | Tales of Frankenstein | |
Cast | Mae Bacon | 3 Jun 1981 | 84 | 1 | The Public Life of Henry the Ninth | |
Cast | Jack Warner | 24 May 1981 | 85 | 1 | The Quatermass Xperiment | |
Cast | Blake Butler | 15 Apr 1981 | 38 | 1 | The Last Visitor | |
Crew | Eric Rogers | 8 Apr 1981 | 59 | 2 | Mantrap, The Stranger Came Home | |
Cast | Garry Marsh | 6 Mar 1981 | 78 | 1 | Someone at the Door | |
Cast | Brenda de Banzie | 5 Mar 1981 | 71 | 1 | Never Look Back | |
Cast | Alf Goddard | 23 Feb 1981 | 84 | 1 | Song of Freedom | |
Crew | Ron Grainer | 21 Feb 1981 | 58 | 1 | Mutiny On The Buses | |
Cast | Arthur O'Sullivan | 17 Feb 1981 | 69 | 1 | The Viking Queen | |
Cast | Terence O'Regan | 24 Jan 1981 | 53 | 1 | Stolen Face | |
Cast | Bernard Lee | 16 Jan 1981 | 73 | 2 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Poor Butterfly | |
Cast | Eric Boon | 16 Jan 1981 | 61 | 1 | The Gambler and the Lady | |
Crew | Douglas Hermes | 1981 | 57 | 6 | Frankenstein Created Woman, The Kiss of the Vampire, Nightmare, The Old Dark House, The Scarlet Blade, Don’t Panic Chaps | |
Crew | Eric Ansell | 1981 | 80 | 2 | The Mystery of the Marie Celeste, Song of Freedom | |
Cast | Philip Leaver | 1981 | 76 | 2 | Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress, Spaceways | |
Cast | Steven Scott | 1981 | 60 | 2 | The Stranglers of Bombay, The Terror of the Tongs |
1980
Total deaths in year 32
Details of the 32 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 1980 are listed below.



Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
Crew | Peter Collinson | 16 Dec 1980 | 44 | 1 | Straight On Till Morning | |
Cast | Imogen Hassall | 16 Nov 1980 | 38 | 1 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | |
Cast | Ambrosine Phillpots | 12 Oct 1980 | 68 | 1 | Stolen Face | |
Crew | Gordon Wellesley | 1 Oct 1980 | 73 | 1 | Passport to China | |
Crew | Don Banks | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | The Brigand of Kandahar, Captain Clegg, The Evil of Frankenstein, Hysteria, The Mummy's Shroud, Nightmare, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Reptile | |
Cast | Yootha Joyce | 24 Aug 1980 | 53 | 3 | Fanatic, Man About the House, Nearest and Dearest | |
Cast | Norman Shelley | 22 Aug 1980 | 77 | 1 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | |
Cast | Arthur Brander | 7 Aug 1980 | 82 | 1 | The Adventures of PC 49 | |
Cast | Norman Atkyns | 7 Aug 1980 | 71 | 1 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
Crew | Patrick Brawn | 3 Aug 1980 | 61 | 1 | Clean Sweep | |
Cast | Peter Sellers | 24 Jul 1980 | 54 | 1 | Up the Creek | |
Cast | Victor Harrington | 23 Jul 1980 | 70 | 7 | Wings of Danger, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), Mantrap, The Lyons in Paris, The Steel Bayonet, The Curse of the Werewolf, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | |
Cast | Rory McDermot | 7 Jul 1980 | 66 | 1 | The Dark Road | |
Cast | Mary Hignett | 6 Jul 1980 | 64 | 2 | Demons of the Mind, Slave Girls | |
Cast | John Laurie | 23 Jun 1980 | 83 | 1 | The Reptile | |
Crew | Terence Fisher | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | The Stranger Came Home, Blood Orange, The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Devil Rides Out, Dracula, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Face the Music, Four Sided Triangle, Four Sided Triangle, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Gorgon, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Last Page, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Mantrap, Mantrap, Mask of Dust, The Mummy, Murder by Proxy, The Phantom of the Opera, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Spaceways, Stolen Face, The Stranglers of Bombay, Sword of Sherwood Forest, The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, Wings of Danger | |
Cast | Jimmy Goodwin | 18 May 1980 | 50 | 1 | Ten Seconds to Hell | |
Cast | Hugh Griffith | 14 May 1980 | 67 | 1 | Doctor Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress | |
Cast | Tony Beckley | 19 Apr 1980 | 52 | 1 | The Lost Continent | |
Cast | Nicholas Phipps | 11 Apr 1980 | 66 | 2 | Don’t Panic Chaps, Eve | |
Crew | John Collier | 6 Apr 1980 | 78 | 1 | Eve | |
Cast | Catherine Finn | 1 Mar 1980 | 65 | 1 | 1 | Paper Dolls, The Witches |
Cast | Renee Houston | 9 Feb 1980 | 77 | 2 | The Phantom of the Opera, Watch it Sailor | |
Cast | Queenie Watts | 25 Jan 1980 | 56 | 1 | Holiday on the Buses | |
Cast | Bert Palmer | 15 Jan 1980 | 79 | 1 | Nearest and Dearest | |
Cast | Cecil Sheridan | 4 Jan 1980 | 71 | 1 | The Viking Queen | |
Crew | Reginald Long | 1980 | 80 | 3 | Death of an Angel, To Have and to Hold, To Have and to Hold | |
Crew | Scott Slimon | 1980 | 64 | 1 | The Full Treatment | |
Crew | Jock Easton | 1980 | 67 | 1 | 3 | The Curse of Frankenstein, The Abominable Snowman, The Steel Bayonet |
Cast | Edgar Wenzel | 1980 | 60 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
Cast | John Nightingale | 1980 | 37 | 1 | Eve | |
Crew | Vic Margutti | 1980 | 66 | 6 | Spaceways, Five Days, The Men of Sherwood Forest, The Quatermass Xperiment, X - The Unknown, The Full Treatment |