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Jimmy Sangster

Screenwriter / Film Director / Film Producer | * 12/02/1927 († 83, 08/19/2011) | North Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
James Henry Kinmel Sangster (2 December 1927 – 19 August 2011) was a British screenwriter and director, most famous for his work on the initial horror films made by the British company Hammer Films, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Horror | Drama | Thriller

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It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for a ...

Fear in the Night

PG

1972 | 3.0/5 | 1h 34min
Mystery, Thriller
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After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van He ...

Dracula

Certification unknown

1958 | 3.7/5 | 1h 22min
Horror
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Tongue-in-cheek chiller about a ruthlessly sadistic student who will stop at nothing in pursuit of advancing his shocking scientific experiments. Young Victor Frankenstein murders his own father in or ...

The Horror of Frankenstein

R

1970 | 2.9/5 | 1h 35min
Horror, Science Fiction
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When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder. ...

Maniac

NR

1963 | 3.2/5 | 1h 26min
Crime, Mystery, Horror, Romance / Love, Thriller
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Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator. ...

McCloud

TV-PG

1970 | 3.6/5 | 2h per episode
Crime, Drama
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Movies with Jimmy Sangster as Actor(4)

as himself2008 Legend of Hammer: Vampires
as himself2006 Lugosi: The Dark Prince
as himself1987 Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Winston Churchill1960 The Siege of Sidney Street

TV Shows/Series with Jimmy Sangster as Actor(2)

as himself2010 A History of Horror
1977 Young Dan'l Boone

Movies with Jimmy Sangster as Crew(91)

Writing/Screenplay2000 Flashback
Crew/Thanks1994 Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Writing/Writer1984 The Toughest Man in the World
Writing/Story1981 The Devil and Max Devlin
Writing/Teleplay1981 No Place to Hide
Writing/Teleplay1980 Once Upon a Spy
Writing/Writer1980 Phobia
Writing/Writer1979 The Billion Dollar Threat
Writing/Writer1979 Concrete Cowboys
Production/Producer1979 Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Writing/Teleplay1979 Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Production/Producer1979 Murder in Music City
Writing/Writer1979 Murder in Music City
Writing/Story1978 The Legacy
Writing/Screenplay1978 The Legacy
Writing/Writer1977 Good Against Evil
Writing/Writer1973 Scream, Pretty Peggy
Writing/Writer1973 Maneater
Directing/Director1972 Fear in the Night
Production/Producer1972 Fear in the Night
Writing/Writer1972 Fear in the Night
Production/Producer1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Writing/Screenplay1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Directing/Director1971 Lust for a Vampire
Writing/Writer1971 A Taste of Evil
Production/Producer1970 Foreign Exchange
Writing/Screenplay1970 Foreign Exchange
Writing/Novel1970 Foreign Exchange
Directing/Director1970 The Horror of Frankenstein
Production/Producer1970 The Horror of Frankenstein
Writing/Screenplay1970 The Horror of Frankenstein
Writing/Screenplay1970 Crescendo
Production/Producer1969 The Spy Killer
Writing/Novel1969 The Spy Killer
Writing/Writer1969 The Spy Killer
Production/Producer1968 The Anniversary
Writing/Screenplay1968 The Anniversary
Writing/Screenplay1967 Deadlier Than the Male
Writing/Original Story1967 Deadlier Than the Male
Writing/Screenplay1966 Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Production/Producer1965 Hysteria
Writing/Writer1965 Hysteria
Production/Producer1965 The Nanny
Writing/Screenplay1965 The Nanny
Production/Producer1964 Nightmare
Writing/Writer1964 Nightmare
Writing/Screenplay1964 Traitor's Gate
Writing/Screenplay1964 Face of a Stranger
Writing/Screenplay1964 The Devil-Ship Pirates
Writing/Writer1963 Paranoiac
Production/Producer1963 Maniac
Writing/Writer1963 Maniac
Writing/Screenplay1963 To Have and to Hold
Production/Producer1962 The Savage Guns
Writing/Story1962 The Pirates of Blood River
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Hellfire Club
Writing/Story1961 The Hellfire Club
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Terror of the Tongs
Production/Producer1961 Taste of Fear
Writing/Writer1961 Taste of Fear
Writing/Story1960 The Siege of Sidney Street
Writing/Screenplay1960 The Siege of Sidney Street
Writing/Screenplay1960 The Brides of Dracula
Writing/Screenplay1959 The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Writing/Screenplay1959 Jack the Ripper
Writing/Scenario Writer1959 Jack the Ripper
Writing/Screenplay1959 The Mummy
Writing/Writer1958 Blood of the Vampire
Writing/Screenplay1958 The Snorkel
Writing/Screenplay1958 Intent to Kill
Writing/Screenplay1958 The Crawling Eye
Writing/Screenplay1958 Dracula
Writing/Writer1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein
Writing/Screenplay1957 The Curse of Frankenstein
Production/Production Manager1956 Women Without Men
Production/Production Manager1956 X the Unknown
Writing/Screenplay1956 X the Unknown
Writing/Story1956 X the Unknown
Directing/Assistant Director1954 Blackout
Production/Production Manager1954 The Men of Sherwood Forest
Directing/Assistant Director1954 Face the Music
Production/Production Manager1954 Mask of Dust
Directing/Assistant Director1954 The House Across the Lake
Directing/Assistant Director1954 Five Days
Directing/Assistant Director1953 Spaceways
Directing/Assistant Director1953 Blood Orange
Directing/Assistant Director1953 The Flanagan Boy
Directing/Assistant Director1953 36 Hours
Directing/Assistant Director1952 The Last Page
Directing/Assistant Director1950 Room to Let
Directing/Assistant Director1950 Someone at the Door

TV Shows/Series with Jimmy Sangster as Crew(8)

Writing/Writer1979 A Man Called Sloane
Writing/Writer1975 Wonder Woman
Writing/Writer1972 Ghost Story
Writing/Teleplay1972 Ghost Story
Writing/Writer1972 Banacek
Writing/Writer1971 Cannon
Writing/Writer1970 McCloud
Writing/Writer1967 Ironside

Full Name: Jimmy Sangster
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Friday, 12/02 1927 (December) in North Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Friday, 08/19 2011 (August) in London (aged: 83)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Ewell Castle School
Other names for Jimmy Sangster (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"John Sansom"
"James Sangster"
"John Samson"
Jimmy Sangster frequently works together with these people:
Michael Carreras (22x, Crew)
James Needs (18x, Crew)
Philip Leakey (17x, Crew)
Bernard Robinson (16x, Crew)
Anthony Hinds (16x, Crew)
Len Harris (15x, Crew)
Terence Fisher (14x, Crew)
Molly Arbuthnot (13x, Crew)
Christopher Lee (12x, Actor)
Walter J. Harvey (12x, Crew)
Renée Glynne (12x, Crew)
Peter Mark Richman (6x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:237454, Added: 08/06/2018, Last updated: 03/25/2024