18 Facts About Seth Holt

Seth Holt was a Palestinian-born British film director, producer and editor.

Seth Holt's films are characterized by their tense atmosphere and suspense, as well as their striking visual style.

Seth Holt originally trained as an actor, and spent a term at RADA in 1940 before acting in repertory in Liverpool and Bideford in Devon working with Paul Scofield at the latter venue.

Seth Holt worked at Ealing Studios from 1943, at the recommendation of Hamer.

Seth Holt was an editing assistant on films such as Champagne Charlie, The Return of the Vikings, Dead of Night, The Captive Heart, Hue and Cry, Frieda, Scott of the Antarctic, Kind Hearts and Coronets and Passport to Pimlico.

In November 1954, Seth Holt was promoted to producer at Ealing.

Seth Holt worked on Touch and Go, The Ladykillers with Mackendrick and The Man in the Sky for Crichton.

Seth Holt graduated to direction with Ealing's penultimate production, Nowhere to Go, which he intended to be "the least Ealing film ever made", co-writing the script with Kenneth Tynan who had been appointed as an Ealing script editor.

Seth Holt was reportedly responsible for saving Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Entertainer, his last editing credits.

Seth Holt returned to Hammer to make The Nanny, based on a script by Sangster and starring Bette Davis.

Seth Holt was contracted to make Danger: Diabolik in Italy with Gilbert Roland.

Seth Holt was initially to direct Crusaders, by John Howlett and David Sherwin, the project which became if.

Seth Holt directed episodes of Court Martial then made a James Bond-style thriller Danger Route.

Seth Holt was the executive producer on Adrian Walker's documentary Barbed Water which is about the whalers of Faial in the Azores.

Filmink opined that Seth Holt seemed to struggle outside the studio system.

Seth Holt said he had been developing scripts about the anarchist Bakunin as well as an adaptation of Lady Into a Fox.

Seth Holt died on the film's set at Elstree Studios during production from a heart attack five weeks into the six-week shoot, collapsing with cast member Aubrey Morris preventing him from falling, according to Christopher Wicking's obituary in The Guardian.

Seth Holt's death is believed to have been alcohol related.