Henry Cass

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Henry Cass (born June 24, 1903 in London , † March 15, 1989 in Hastings , Sussex ) was a British film director , screenwriter , film and theater producer. He has directed over 20 films, including Echo of Love , Holidays Like Never Before , A Crazy Family , Fight Above the Clouds and The Demon With Bloody Hands .

life and career

Henry Cass, born in 1903 in the London borough of Hampstead , was drawn to the stage in 1923. In the 1930s he finally worked as a theater producer at the Croydon Repertory Theater , and later as a theater producer at the Old Vic Theater in London. His stage productions have included performances of St. Joan , Major Barbara , Peer Gynt , Desire Under the Elms or William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew with Maurice Evans , Cathleen Nesbit , Andrew Leigh , Abraham Sofaer , Vivienne Bennett , Cecil Trouncer , Alec Clunes , Alan Webb and Leo Genn .

In the 1940s he shifted his field of activity from the stage to the screen. As a director (in part also as a screenwriter and producer), Cass staged a number of comedies, dramas and horror films in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, he directed the romantic comedies Holidays Like Never Before (1950) with Alec Guinness , Beatrice Campbell and Kay Walsh , With Kitchen Use (1951) with the cast of Joan Greenwood , Nigel Patrick and Derek Farr , as well as the comedy A Mad Family with Richard Attenborough in the lead role. In 1957 he directed the film drama Fight Above the Clouds with Wayne Morris , Karin Booth and Anton Diffring , which he also produced himself. A year later he directed the horror film The Demon with Bloody Hands, starring Donald Wolfit and Barbara Shelley . The 1968 drama Happy Deathday was Henry Cass' last directorial work; he died in 1989 at the age of 85.

Filmography (selection)

As a film director

  • 1937: Lancashire Luck
  • 1945: 29 Acacia Avenue
  • 1949: Echo of Love (The Glass Mountain)
  • 1950: No Place for Jennifer
  • 1950: Holidays like never before (Last Holiday)
  • 1951: With use of the kitchen (Young Wives' Tale)
  • 1952: Castle in the Air
  • 1952 Father's Doing Fine
  • 1955: Reluctant Bride
  • 1955: No Smoking
  • 1955: windfall
  • 1955: Breakaway
  • 1956: Bond of Fear
  • 1956: High Terrace
  • 1957: The Crooked Sky
  • 1957: Secret Weapon X (Booby Trap)
  • 1957: Professor Tim
  • 1958: Blood of the Vampire (Blood of the Vampire)
  • 1960: The Hand
  • 1960: Boyd's Shop
  • 1961: The Naked in Satan's Hand (Man Who Couldn't Walk)
  • 1965: Mr. Brown Comes Down the Hill
  • 1965: Give a Dog a Bone
  • 1968: Happy Deathday

As a screenwriter

  • 1949: Echo of Love (The Glass Mountain)
  • 1965: Mr. Brown Comes Down the Hill
  • 1965: Give a Dog a Bone
  • 1968: Happy Deathday

As a film producer

  • 1946: English Criminal Justice (short documentary)
  • 1957: The Crooked Sky
  • 1965: Mr. Brown Comes Down the Hill
  • 1965: Give a Dog a Bone

literature

  • Henry Cass. In: Horst Zander: Julius Caesar: New Critical Essays. , Routledge, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry Cass. In: Jörg Helbig: Chronicle of British Film. , WVT, Wiss. Verlag Trier, 2000, p. 234
  2. ↑ Henry Cass. In: Kenneth Von Gunden: Alec Guinness: The Films. , McFarland, 1987, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Cass, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director, screenwriter, film and theater producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1989
Place of death Hastings , Sussex