Michael Carreras
Born: 1927-12-21 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Died: 1994-04-19
Known For: Production
Biography
Michael Henry Carreras (21 December 1927 – 19 April 1994) was a British film producer and director. He was known for his association with Hammer Films, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years. As producer, he worked on The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Curse of the Werewolf (1960) and She (1965) among over sixty other films. He also wrote a smaller number of screenplays. He later turned to directing, with The Savage Guns / Tierra brutal (1961), Maniac (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), Slave Girls (1967), The Lost Continent (1968) and Shatter (1975) among others. In 1971, he took over directing Blood from the Mummy's Tomb after director Seth Holt died partway through filming. Carreras died from cancer in London on 19 April 1994.
Filmography
1996
- A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1994
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror ... (Thanks)
1987
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self (archive footage)
1979
- The Lady Vanishes ... (Executive Producer)
1974
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Presenter)
- Shatter ... (Director)
1972
- Dracula A.D. 1972 ... (Executive Producer)
- Straight On Till Morning ... (Producer)
- Nearest and Dearest ... (Producer)
- That's Your Funeral ... (Producer)
- Demons of the Mind ... (Producer)
1971
- Blood from the Mummy's Tomb ... (Director)
- Creatures the World Forgot ... (Writer)
1970
- Crescendo ... (Producer)
1969
- Moon Zero Two ... (Producer)
1968
- The Lost Continent ... (Director)
1967
- A Challenge for Robin Hood ... (Executive Producer)
- Slave Girls ... (Director)
1966
- One Million Years B.C. ... (Screenplay)
1965
- She ... (Producer)
1964
- The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb ... (Director)
1963
- Maniac ... (Director)
- What a Crazy World ... (Director)
1962
- The Pirates of Blood River ... (Executive Producer)
- The Damned ... (Executive Producer)
1961
- The Savage Guns ... (Director)
- The Terror of the Tongs ... (Executive Producer)
- The Curse of the Werewolf ... (Executive Producer)
- Taste of Fear ... (Executive Producer)
- Cash on Demand ... (Executive Producer)
1960
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll ... (Producer)
- The Brides of Dracula ... (Executive Producer)
- Hell Is a City ... (Producer)
- Sword of Sherwood Forest ... (Executive Producer)
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger ... (Executive Producer)
- Visa to Canton ... (Director)
1959
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death ... (Producer)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Executive Producer)
- The Mummy ... (Producer)
- The Stranglers of Bombay ... (Executive Producer)
- Yesterday's Enemy ... (Producer)
- Ten Seconds to Hell ... (Producer)
- The Ugly Duckling ... (Producer)
1958
- Dracula ... (Executive Producer)
- The Snorkel ... (Producer)
- The Steel Bayonet ... (Director)
- The Revenge of Frankenstein ... (Executive Producer)
- The Camp on Blood Island ... (Executive Producer)
- A Clean Sweep ... (Executive Producer)
- Tales of Frankenstein ... (Producer)
1957
- The Curse of Frankenstein ... (Executive Producer)
- The Abominable Snowman ... (Executive Producer)
- Quatermass 2 ... (Executive Producer)
1956
- X: The Unknown ... (Executive Producer)
1955
- Break in the Circle ... (Producer)
- The Eric Winstone Bandshow ... (Director)
- The Right Person ... (Producer)
1954
- Third Party Risk ... (Executive Producer)
- The Men of Sherwood Forest ... (Producer)
- The Stranger Came Home ... (Screenplay)
- Face the Music ... (Producer)
- Blackout ... (Producer)
1953
- Blood Orange ... (Producer)
- Spaceways ... (Producer)
- Four Sided Triangle ... (Producer)
1952
- The Last Page ... (Casting Director)
- Lady in the Fog ... (Casting)
- Never Look Back ... (Producer)
- Death of an Angel ... (Casting Director)
- The Gambler and the Lady ... (Casting)
1951
- The Dark Light ... (Producer)
- A Case For P.C. 49 ... (Casting Director)