Don Sharp
Born: 1922-04-19 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died: 2011-12-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
Donald Herman Sharp was an Australian film director. His best known films were made for Hammer in the 1960s, and included Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin, the Mad Monk. In 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee.
Filmography
1989
- Act of Will ... (Director)
1988
- Tears in the Rain ... (Director)
1987
- Hold the Dream ... (Director)
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self - Director
1985
- A Woman of Substance ... (Director)
1984
- What Waits Below ... (Director)
1982
- Q.E.D. ... (Director)
1980
- Hammer House of Horror ... (Director)
- Guardian of the Abyss ... (Director)
1979
- Bear Island ... (Director)
1978
- The Thirty Nine Steps ... (Director)
- The Four Feathers ... (Director)
1975
- Hennessy ... (Director)
1974
- Callan ... (Director)
1973
- Psychomania ... (Director)
- Dark Places ... (Director)
1972
- Follow Me! ... (Editor)
1971
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- Puppet on a Chain ... (Writer)
1969
- Taste of Excitement ... (Director)
1968
- The Champions ... (Director)
1967
- Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon ... (Director)
- The Violent Enemy ... (Director)
1966
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk ... (Director)
- The Brides of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Our Man in Marrakesh ... (Director)
1965
- The Face of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Curse of the Fly ... (Director)
1964
- Witchcraft ... (Director)
- Legend of a Gunfighter ... (Screenplay)
- The Devil-Ship Pirates ... (Director)
1963
- The Human Jungle ... (Director)
- The Kiss of the Vampire ... (Director)
- It's All Happening ... (Director)
1961
- The Avengers ... (Director)
- Ghost Squad ... (Director)
1960
- The Professionals ... (Director)
- Linda ... (Director)
1958
- The Golden Disc ... (Director)
1957
- The Adventures of Hal 5 ... (Director)
1955
- The Blue Peter ... (Writer)
- The Stolen Airliner ... (Director)
1954
- Child's Play ... (Writer)
- Conflict of Wings ... (Screenplay)
1953
- The Cruel Sea as Lieutenant-Commander
1952
- The Planter's Wife as Lt. Summers
1950
- Ha'penny Breeze as Johnny Craig