1. Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
18 Facts About Terence Fisher
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Terence Fisher went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula, The Mummy, and The Curse of the Werewolf.
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Terence Fisher left school aged 16 and served in the Merchant Navy for five years.
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Terence Fisher first broke into the film industry as a clapper boy at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush in 1933.
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Terence Fisher did his first work as an assistant editor in 1934.
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Terence Fisher did Tomorrow We Live and Candlelight in Algeria for British Aviation Films, They Met in the Dark for Marcel Hellman, The Dark Tower for Warners, and One Exciting Night.
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Terence Fisher's first film as director was A Song for Tomorrow, a second feature for Highbury Productions.
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Terence Fisher returned to supporting features with Home to Danger for Eros Films.
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Terence Fisher made Final Appointment outside Hammer with John Bentley then went back to Hammer for Mask of Dust with Richard Conte.
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Terence Fisher made the comedy Children Galore and the Final Appointment sequel Stolen Assignment.
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Terence Fisher was hired by Tempean Films to make a final crime thriller with an imported American star, Kill Me Tomorrow with Pat O'Brien.
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Terence Fisher's career changed direction permanently when Hammer asked him to direct The Curse of Frankenstein, their first colour horror film.
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Terence Fisher directed another hit sequel, The Brides of Dracula starring Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt and David Peel, whilst The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll had Paul Massie in the title role with Lee and Dawn Addams in support, but it was one of the first Hammer horrors to perform disappointingly at the box office.
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Terence Fisher had a change of pace when he directed Sword of Sherwood Forest for Hammer, with Richard Greene reprising his small screen role as Robin Hood from the ITV series on which he had previously worked with Terence Fisher.
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Terence Fisher finally worked for Hammer again when they reunited him with both Cushing and Lee for The Gorgon, a personal favourite of the director, before Lippert used him once more for the black-and-white science fiction film The Earth Dies Screaming, featuring American actor Willard Parker alongside Dennis Price and Fisher's close friend Thorley Walters.
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Terence Fisher directed another science fiction film, Island of Terror, for Planet Film Productions, which starred Cushing alongside Edward Judd.
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Terence Fisher, Cushing and Lee then worked together on Planet's Night of the Big Heat, adapted from a sci-fi story by John Lymington.
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For Hammer, Terence Fisher and Lee next made The Devil Rides Out, from the novel by Dennis Wheatley, which is a very highly regarded genre classic, whilst Cushing starred in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, which was conceived as a climax to the Frankenstein series; it was another favourite of Terence Fisher's and stands up as one of his most suspenseful and exciting movies.