Cast and Crew Deaths
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2023
Details of the 15 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 2023 are listed below.
| Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
| Cast | Joss Ackland | 19 Nov 2023 | 95 | 2 | Rasputin the Mad Monk, Crescendo | |
| Cast | David McCallum | 25 Sep 2023 | 90 | 1 | The Corvini Inheritance | |
| Cast | John Cairney | 7 Sep 2023 | 93 | 1 | The Devil Ship Pirates | |
| Cast | Sarah Lawson | 18 Aug 2023 | 95 | 2 | The Devil Rides Out, Jane Brown's Body | |
| Cast | Lelia Goldoni | 22 Jul 2023 | 86 | 1 | Hysteria | |
| Cast | Betta St John | 23 Jun 2023 | 93 | 1 | The Snorkel | |
| Cast | George Maharis | 24 May 2023 | 94 | 1 | Miss Belle | |
| Cast | Ray Austin | 17 May 2023 | 90 | 2 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | |
| Crew | Christopher Gunning | 25 Mar 2023 | 78 | 3 | Hands of the Ripper, Man About the House x 2 | |
| Crew | Patrick Clayton | March 2023 | 87 | 1 | 2 | The Lyons in Paris, Men of Sherwood Forest, Twins of Evil |
| Cast | Mary Parker | 13 May 2023 | 92 | 1 | Third Party Risk | |
| Cast | Lee Whitlock | 17 Feb 2023 | 82 | 1 | Beyond the Rave | |
| Cast | Raquel Welch | 15 Feb 2023 | 82 | 1 | One Million Years BC | |
| Cast | Dennis Lotis | 8 Feb 2023 | 97 | 1 | The Sword of Sherwood Forest | |
| Crew | Gerry O'Hara | 9 Jan 2023 | 98 | 1 | Do Me a Favor and Kill Me |
2022
Details of the 38 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 2022 are listed below.
| Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
| Cast | Christian Roberts | 26 Dec 2022 | 78 | 1 | The Anniversary | |
| Cast | Thea Gregory | 18 Dec 2022 | 96 | 1 | Five Days | |
| Cast | Otto Snel | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | Visitor from the Grave, The Two Faces of Evil, The Mark of Satan, The House That Bled to Death, The Silent Scream, Rude Awakening, Guardian of the Abyss, Growing Pains, Children of the Full Moon, Charlie Boy, Carpathian Eagle, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Hands of the Ripper, That’s Your Funeral |
| Crew | Michael Reed | 15 Dec 2022 | 93 | 2 | 5 | The Man in Black, Meet Simon Cherry, The Ugly Duckling, Dracula Prince of Darkness, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Devil-Ship Pirates, The Gorgon |
| Cast | Robert Tayman | 1 Dec 2022 | 80 | 2 | Moon Zero Two, Vampire Circus | |
| Crew | David Tringham | 30 Nov 2022 | 87 | 3 | Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, Slave Girls, The Witches | |
| Cast | Leslie Phillips | 7 Nov 2022 | 98 | 1 | A Weekend with Lulu | |
| Cast | Ian Whittaker | 16 Oct 2022 | 94 | 5 | Clean Sweep, Further up the Creek, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Secret of Blood Island, Steel Bayonet | |
| Cast | Angela Lansbury | 12 Oct 2022 | 96 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
| Cast | Michael Callan | 10 Oct 2022 | 86 | 1 | Girl of my Dreams | |
| Crew | Gabrielle Beaumont | 8 Oct 2022 | 80 | 1 | The Corvini Inheritance | |
| Cast | Harry Landis | 11 Sep 2022 | 90 | 1 | Further Up the Creek | |
| Cast | Bernard Cribbins | 27 Jul 2022 | 93 | 2 | Passport to China, She | |
| Crew | Monty Norman | 11 Jul 2022 | 94 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
| Cast | Brian Jackson | 2 Jul 2022 | 91 | 1 | Taste of Fear | |
| Cast | Frank Williams | 26 Jun 2022 | 90 | 2 | The Glass Cage, The Indian Spirit Guide | |
| Cast | Dennis Waterman | 8 May 2022 | 74 | 3 | The Pirates of Blood River, Scars of Dracula, Eve | |
| Cast | Richard Beaumont | 26 Apr 2022 | 60 | 1 | Demons of the Mind | |
| Cast | James Olson | 17 Apr 2022 | 91 | 2 | Crescendo, Moon Zero Two | |
| Cast | Sonny Caldinez | 12 Apr 2022 | 89 | 1 | A Challenge for Robin Hood | |
| Cast | Jeremy Young | 9 Apr 2022 | 88 | 1 | Rasputin the Mad Monk | |
| Crew | Renee Glynne | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 38 | 3 | 36 Hours, A Case for PC 49, The Adventures of PC 49, Black Widow, Blood Orange, Celia, Cloudburst, Death of an Angel, Face the Music, Fanatic, The Flanagan Boy, Four Sided Triangle, The Gambler and the Lady, The House Across the Lake, The Lady Craved Excitement, Lady in the Fog, The Last Page, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, The Lyons in Paris, Man About the House, Mantrap, Mask of Dust, Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev), The Men of Sherwood Forest, Murder by Proxy, The Nanny, The Quatermass Xperiment, Room to Let, The Rossiter Case, Shatter, Someone at the Door, Spaceways, The Steel Bayonet, The Man in Black, Third Party Risk, To Have and to Hold, What the Butler Saw, Whispering Smith Hits London, Jack of Diamonds, Stolen Face, The Camp on Blood Island |
| Cast | Malcolm Ranson | 12 Mar 2022 | 75 | 1 | Up the Creek | |
| Crew | Joe D'Orazio | 9 Mar 2022 | 99 | 2 | The Camp on Blood Island, The Terror of the Tongs | |
| Cast | Lynda Baron | 5 Mar 2022 | 82 | 1 | Hands of the Ripper | |
| Cast | Angela Crow | 3 Mar 2022 | 86 | 2 | X - The Unknown, The Shadow of the Cat | |
| Cast | Veronica Carlson | 27 Feb 2022 | 77 | 3 | Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Horror of Frankenstein | |
| Cast | Anna Karen | 22 Feb 2022 | 85 | 3 | Holiday on the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses, On the Buses | |
| Cast | Jack Smethurst | 16 Feb 2022 | 89 | 2 | Love Thy Neighbour, Man About the House | |
| Cast | Leonard Fenton | 29 Jan 2022 | 95 | 2 | The Devil-Ship Pirates, Up the Creek | |
| Cast | Carita Järvinen | 29 Jan 2022 | 78 | 1 | The Viking Queen | |
| Cast | Joe Dunne | 14 Jan 2022 | 86 | 2 | The Curse of the Werewolf, Twins of Evil | |
| Cast | Donald Gee | 14 Jan 2022 | 84 | 1 | Poor Butterfly | |
| Cast | Leon Lissek | 13 Jan 2022 | 82 | 2 | Countess Dracula, Matakitas is Coming | |
| Cast | Antic Melkior | 12 Jan 2022 | 86 | 1 | Dracula | |
| Cast | Gary Waldhorn | 10 Jan 2022 | 78 | 2 | Carpathian Eagle, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down | |
| Crew | Marc Wilkinson | 8 Jan 2022 | 92 | 1 | Visitor from the Grave | |
| Cast | George Little | 8 Jan 2022 | 93 | 1 | Tennis Court | |
| Cast | Barbara Chilcott | 1 Jan 2022 | 99 | 1 | The Full Treatment |
2021
Details of the 47 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 2021 are listed below.
| Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
| Crew | Doug Robinson | 16 Dec 2021 | 91 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
| Cast | Jack Hedley | 11 Dec 2021 | 92 | 4 | The Anniversary, The Scarlet Blade, Secret of Blood Island, The Madison Equation | |
| Crew | Lionel Strutt | 6 Dec 2021 | 85 | 1 | The Viking Queen, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
| Cast | Mary Collinson | 23 Nov 2021 | 69 | 1 | Twins of Evil | |
| Cast | Dean Stockwell | 7 Nov 2021 | 85 | 1 | The Sweet Scent of Death | |
| Cast | Clifford Rose | 6 Nov 2021 | 92 | 1 | Last Video and Testament | |
| Crew | Lionel Blair | 4 Nov 2021 | 92 | 1 | The Ugly Duckling | |
| Cast | Mark Elwes | 23 Sep 2021 | 90 | 1 | Quatermass and the Pit | |
| Cast | Ernst Walder | 6 Sep 2021 | 93 | 1 | A Weekend with Lulu | |
| Crew | Mikis Theodorakis | 2 Sep 2021 | 96 | 1 | The Shadow of the Cat | |
| Cast | Colette O'Neil | 11 Jul 2021 | 85 | 1 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | |
| Cast | John Gayford | 9 Jul 2021 | 88 | 1 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | |
| Crew | Desmond Davis | 3 Jul 2021 | 95 | 1 | Taste of Fear | |
| Cast | Anne Stallybrass | 3 Jul 2021 | 82 | 1 | Countess Dracula | |
| Cast | Paula Jacobs | 26 Jun 2021 | 89 | 1 | The Thirteenth Reunion | |
| Cast | Ralph Watson | 20 Jun 2021 | 85 | 1 | The Anniversary | |
| Cast | Leon Greene | 19 Jun 2021 | 89 | 2 | A Challenge for Robin Hood, The Devil Rides Out | |
| Cast | Tonia Bern | 14 Jun 2021 | 84 | 1 | The Glass Cage | |
| Cast | Damaris Hayman | 3 Jun 2021 | 91 | 2 | 1 | Love Thy Neighbour, Mutiny on the Buses, Man About the House |
| Crew | Allan Foenander | 1 Jun 2021 | 91 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
| Cast | Shane Briant | 27 May 2021 | 74 | 4 | Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, Demons of the Mind, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Straight On Till Morning | |
| Crew | Mike Hopkins G.B.F.E. | 23 May 2021 | 1 | The Late Nancy Irving | ||
| Crew | Norman Lloyd | 11 May 2021 | 106 | 4 | Stranger in the Family, The Killing Bottle, The Last Visitor, The Madison Equation | |
| Cast | Leslie Marr | 4 May 2021 | 98 | 1 | Mask of Dust | |
| Crew | Anthony Payne | 30 Apr 2021 | 84 | 2 | Tennis Court, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down | |
| Cast | Helen McCrory | 16 Apr 2021 | 52 | 1 | Woman in Black: Angel of Death | |
| Cast | Andre Maranne | 12 Apr 2021 | 94 | 1 | Maniac | |
| Cast | Maria Antippas | 12 Apr 2021 | 92 | 1 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | |
| Cast | Shu-Tong Wong | 10 Apr 2021 | 77 | 1 | Shatter | |
| Crew | Wally Schneiderman | 8 Apr 2021 | 98 | 3 | One Million Years BC, Scars of Dracula, Slave Girls | |
| Cast | Brian Peck | 3 Apr 2021 | 90 | 1 | 1 | Quatermass and the Pit, X - The Unknown |
| Crew | Nikki Van der Zyl | 6 Mar 2021 | 85 | 5 | One Million Years BC, Frankenstein Created Woman, Slave Girls, Scars of Dracula, She | |
| Crew | Mike Rutter | 6 Mar 2021 | 86 | 2 | X - The Unknown, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Rasputin the Mad Monk | |
| Crew | Bill Cartlidge | 3 Mar 2021 | 78 | 4 | The Evil of Frankenstein, Nearest and Dearest, The Reptile, That’s Your Funeral | |
| Cast | Nicola Pagett | 3 Mar 2021 | 75 | 1 | The Viking Queen | |
| Cast | Johnny Briggs | 28 Feb 2021 | 85 | 2 | The Devil-Ship Pirates, Man About the House | |
| Cast | David de Keyser | 20 Feb 2021 | 93 | 3 | The Vengeance of She, Vampire Circus, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | |
| Cast | Harry Fielder | 6 Feb 2021 | 80 | 10 | Quatermass and the Pit, A Challenge for Robin Hood, The Vengeance of She, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Twins of Evil, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Mutiny on the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour, Holiday on the Buses | |
| Cast | Jean Bayliss | 5 Feb 2021 | 88 | 1 | Lady in the Fog | |
| Crew | Garth Inns | 30 Jan 2021 | 77 | 1 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | |
| Crew | Ian Wilson | 20 Jan 2021 | 81 | 1 | Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter | |
| Crew | Eric Allwright | 18 Jan 2021 | 95 | 1 | To the Devil A Daughter | |
| Cast | Pauline Chamberlain | 14 Jan 2021 | 88 | 5 | I Only Arsked!, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Love Thy Neighbour | |
| Crew | Tony Curtis | 8 Jan 2021 | 83 | 1 | The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | |
| Cast | John Richardson | 5 Jan 2021 | 86 | 3 | 1 | One Million Years BC, She, The Vengeance of She, Dracula, Prince of Darkness |
| Cast | David Saire | 5 Jan 2021 | 90 | 1 | Secret of Blood Island | |
| Cast | Barbara Shelley | 3 Jan 2021 | 88 | 8 | The Camp on Blood Island, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, The Gorgon, Mantrap, Quatermass and the Pit, Rasputin the Mad Monk, Secret of Blood Island, The Shadow of the Cat |
2020
Details of the 41 known deaths of Hammer people (cast and crew) in 2020 are listed below.
| Role | Name | Died | Age | Credited | Uncredited | Productions |
| Cast, Crew | Jeremy Burnham | 31 Dec 2020 | 89 | 6 | The Horror of Frankenstein, The Thirteenth Reunion, The Late Nancy Irving, Czech Mate, The Brigand of Kandahar | |
| Cast | David Knight | 20 Dec 2020 | 92 | 1 | Nightmare | |
| Cast | Rosalind Knight | 19 Dec 2020 | 87 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
| Cast | Jeremy Bulloch | 17 Dec 2020 | 75 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
| Crew | John Aldred | 15 Dec 2020 | 99 | 1 | Yesterday’s Enemy | |
| Crew | Kenneth V Jones | 2 Dec 2020 | 96 | 1 | Ten Seconds to Hell | |
| Cast | David Prowse | 28 Nov 2020 | 85 | 3 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Horror of Frankenstein, Vampire Circus | |
| Cast | Philip Voss | 13 Nov 2020 | 84 | 1 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
| Cast | John Fraser | 7 Nov 2020 | 89 | 1 | The Beckoning Fair One | |
| Crew | Mike Le Mare GBFE | 19 Oct 2020 | 81 | 1 | To the Devil A Daughter | |
| Cast | Tex Fuller | 7 Oct 2020 | 94 | 3 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Mutiny on the Buses, On the Buses | |
| Cast | Barbara Jefford | 12 Sep 2020 | 90 | 2 | Lust for a Vampire, Miss Belle | |
| Cast | Robert Mill | 30 Aug 2020 | 86 | 1 | Girl of My Dreams | |
| Crew | Pamela Mann | 23 Aug 2020 | 93 | 1 | Taste of Fear | |
| Cast | Jiri Stanislav | 1 Aug 2020 | 74 | 1 | Czech Mate | |
| Cast, Crew | Annie Ross | 21 Jul 2020 | 89 | 3 | Straight On Till Morning | |
| Cast | Geoffrey Kenion | 1 Jul 2020 | 78 | 1 | Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde | |
| Cast | Louis Mahoney | 28 Jun 2020 | 81 | 2 | The Plague of the Zombies, Slave Girls | |
| Cast | Philip Latham | 20 Jun 2020 | 91 | 4 | The Devil-Ship Pirates, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Secret of Blood Island, Two Faces of Evil | |
| Cast | Dan Van Husen | 31 May 2020 | 75 | 1 | The Lady Vanishes | |
| Crew | Ken Nightingall | 19 May 2020 | 91 | 1 | The Kiss of the Vampire | |
| Cast | George Mikell | 12 May 2020 | 91 | 1 | Czech Mate | |
| Cast | June Barry | 2 May 2020 | 84 | 1 | Terror of the Tongs | |
| Crew | Francis Meghay | 1 May 2020 | 85 | 4 | Growing Pains, Charlie Boy, Carpathian Eagle, Carpathian Eagle | |
| Crew | John Gregory | 23 Apr 2020 | 95 | 1 | The Ugly Duckling | |
| Cast | Shirley Knight | 22 Apr 2020 | 83 | 1 | The Sweet Scent of Death | |
| Cast | Stirling Moss | 12 Apr 2020 | 90 | 1 | Mask of Dust | |
| Cast | Honor Blackman | 5 Apr 2020 | 94 | 3 | Danger List, The Glass Cage, To the Devil, A Daughter | |
| Crew | Gerard Schurmann | 24 Mar 2020 | 96 | 2 | The Camp on Blood Island, The Lost Continent | |
| Cast | Stuart Whitman | 16 Mar 2020 | 92 | 1 | Shatter | |
| Cast | Ivor Danvers | 13 Mar 2020 | 87 | 1 | Dick Barton - Special Agent | |
| Crew | Ken Withers | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 1 | Countess Dracula, The Sweet Scent of Death, The Late Nancy Irving, The Corvini Inheritance, Tennis Court, Paint Me a Murder, Mark of the Devil, Last Video and Testament, In Possession, Czech Mate, Child’s Play, Black Carrion, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down, A Distant Scream, Countess Dracula |
| Cast | Michael Medwin | 26 Feb 2020 | 96 | 6 | A Man on the Beach, I Only Arsked!, The Lady Craved Excitement, Someone at the Door, Spaceways, The Steel Bayonet | |
| Crew | Susan Beaumont | 25 Feb 2020 | 83 | 1 | The Lyons in Paris | |
| Cast | Frances Cuka | 16 Feb 2020 | 83 | 1 | Charlie Boy | |
| Cast | Andree Melly | 31 Jan 2020 | 87 | 1 | The Brides of Dracula | |
| Crew | Alan Harris | 25 Jan 2020 | 81 | 2 | Man About the House, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | |
| Cast | Derek Fowlds | 17 Jan 2020 | 82 | 1 | Frankenstein Created Woman | |
| Crew | Alan Pattillo | 16 Jan 2020 | 90 | 1 | Straight On Till Morning | |
| Cast | Patrick Jordan | 10 Jan 2020 | 96 | 1 | Face the Music | |
| Crew | Laurie Barnett | 2020 | 79 | 1 | A Challenge for Robin Hood |