Anthony Hinds

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Anthony "Tony" Frank Hinds , as a screenwriter under the pseudonym John Elder , (born September 19, 1922 in London - Ruislip , United Kingdom , † September 30, 2013 in Oxfordshire ) was a British film producer and screenwriter whose work closely with the Horror films specialized Hammer Film Productions is connected.

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The son of Music Hall comedian William Hinds, who was to go into the annals of British cinema history as Will Hammer (1888-1957), one of the two founders of Hammer Films, attended St. Paul's School in London. After serving in the Royal Air Force , Anthony Hinds joined his father's production company, which was still completely insignificant at the time (1946) and which had only released a few films in the 1930s. While the son of the company co-founder Enrique Carreras, James Carreras, took care of the management, Hinds was responsible for the creative direction of the Hammer Films and thus the actual production of the Hammer Films. With the film Death in High Heels in 1947 he was left with the production supervision for the first time, with the cheap crime thriller Who Killed Van Loon? he presented his first film as a producer in June 1948.

Until the mid-1950s, Anthony Hinds produced inexpensive B-films with Hammer-Films - almost all of them were thrillers, dramas and melodramas. It was not until 1955 that the Schock flick was decided to concentrate on the production of science fiction and horror fabrics. In 1957, the big breakthrough came with the remake of the Frankenstein material, shot the previous year and which Hollywood first implemented with great success in 1931. Company founder Will Hammer had hardly seen the success of the remake; he died a month after the first performance of Frankenstein's Curse while riding a bicycle .

Tony Hinds now built entirely on the horror film genre and, in collaboration with Carreras' grandson Michael Carreras , made further remakes of the classic Hollywood horror film cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, including Dracula , Die Rache der Pharaonen (remake of The Mummy ), Beat 12 in London (remake of Die Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ), The Curse of Siniestro (remake of the werewolf material The Wolf Man ) and The Riddle of the Eerie Mask (remake of The Phantom of the Opera ). The Dracula and Frankenstein films in particular turned out to be extremely box office-friendly, which is why Hinds and Carreras initiated several sequels. The central Hammer Films work in both aegis was staged by veteran Terence Fisher , and Hinds also contributed the script for several of these films under the pseudonym John Elder.

After Hammer-Films got into financial difficulties in the late 1960s, Hinds' withdrawal from the company was more or less forced by the US financiers who supported him, and he had to be supernatural in the midst of the production of the television series Journey to the Unknown Events stood, take your hat off. 1970 Hinds also had to leave the board of directors of Hammer Films. As a screenwriter, however, he continued to be associated with his previous company. Anthony Hinds, last ill with Parkinson's , was married to Jean Knowles from 1956 until his death. The couple has two daughters.

Filmography

As a producer, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 130.
  • Allen Eyles, Robert Adkinson, Nicholas Fry: The House of Horror. The Story of Hammer Films. Lorrimer Publishing Limited, London 1973, ISBN 978-0-85647-020-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Hinds (Will Hammer) on findmypast.co.uk

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personal data
SURNAME Hinds, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinds, Anthony Frank (full name); Elder, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH London - Ruislip , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH September 30th, 2013
Place of death Oxfordshire , England