Michael Carreras
Michael Henry Carreras (born December 21, 1927 in London , † April 19, 1994 ) was a British film producer , screenwriter , director and studio manager, specializing in horror fabrics for his own company, Hammer Films .
Life
Carreras came from a dynasty of film merchants. His grandfather Enrique Carreras (1880–1950) came to England from Spain before the First World War and opened his first cinema in London-Hammersmith in 1913. A whole chain of movie theaters soon followed. Enrique Carreras and the vaudeville artist William Hinds, stage name Will Hammer, founded a joint film distribution company, "Exclusive Films Ltd.", in 1935, from which the production company 'Hammer Films' was to emerge in 1947 - a studio that merged from the mid-1950s Should make name as a specialist in horror films.
Michael Carreras followed his father James Carreras (1909–1990) into the company in 1943, when he was doing his military service. Carreras junior learned the film trade from scratch, interrupted only by his own military service in 1946/47. From 1951 he was responsible as a producer. Despite notorious financial weakness and various production partners, “Hammer Films” remained a family business in which Carreras, like Will Hammers' son, Anthony Hinds, held a wide variety of positions - not only as a producer, but later also as a director and screenwriter. In 1961, Carreras left his father's company for a while, founded his own company with the short-lived “Capricorn Films”, but soon returned to “Hammer Films”.
Michael Carreras only took over the management of the company as Managing Director in January 1971, and in August of the following year he bought the company from his father James. Until then, the experienced film salesman had excelled above all as a producer and screenwriter, while his productions sometimes showed considerable weaknesses. In the mid-1970s, "Hammer Films" largely ceased production.
In 1986 Carreras received the Career Award at the Fantafestival.
Michael Carreras died of cancer in April 1994.
Filmography
As a producer or line producer
- 1951: The Dark Light
- 1952: Never Look Back
- 1952: Mantrap
- 1953: Spaceways
- 1953: Face the Music
- 1953: Blood Orange
- 1954: The Stranger Came Home (also screenplay)
- 1954: Robin Hood, the red avenger (Men of Sherwood Forest)
- 1954: Mask of Dust
- 1954: Hamburg spy network (Break in the Circle)
- 1954: Murder by Proxy
- 1955: Cyril Stapleton and the Show Band (documentary short film, also director)
- 1955: The Right Person
- 1955: Just for You (short documentary film, also director)
- 1955: Parade of the Bands (documentary short film, also director)
- 1956: Copenhagen (short documentary film, also director)
- 1956: Dick Turpin - Highwayman (short film)
- 1956: Enemies out of nowhere ´ (Quatermass II)
- 1956: Frankenstein's curse
- 1957: The Steel Bayonet (& director)
- 1957: Yeti, the Snowman ( The Abominable Snowman )
- 1957: The yellow Hell ( The Camp on Blood Iceland )
- 1957: Dracula (Dracula)
- 1958: The snorkel ( The Snorkel )
- 1958: Frankenstein's Revenge (The Revenge of Frankenstein)
- 1958: Hell Before Us (Ten Seconds to Hell)
- 1959: enemies of yesterday (Yesterday's Enemy)
- 1959: Death outwitted (The Man Who Could Cheat Death)
- 1959: The Revenge of the Pharaohs (The Mummy)
- 1959: The Strangler Bombay (The Stranglers of Bombay)
- 1960: Hetzjagd (Hell is a City)
- 1960: Beat 12 in London (The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll)
- 1960: Dracula and his brides (The Brides of Dracula)
- 1960: The Sword of Robin Hood (The Sword of Sherwood Forest)
- 1960: A dead man plays the piano (Taste of Fear)
- 1960: Once to China and back (Visa to Canton) (& director)
- 1960: Terror of the Tongs (The Terror of Tong)
- 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf (The Curse of the Werewolf)
- 1961: Pirates At Todesfluß ( The Pirates of Blood River )
- 1962: Until the Blood (Tierra brutal) (& director)
- 1962: Cash on Demand
- 1962: The Boiled Out (Maniac) (Director only)
- 1963: Die Rache des Pharao (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb) (& director, screenplay)
- 1964: The Dark House (Fanatic)
- 1964: Ruler of the desert (She)
- 1965: One Million Years BC (One Million Years BC) (screenplay)
- 1966: The Slave Girls (& director, screenplay)
- 1967: The Curse of the Mummy (The Mummy's Shroud)
- 1967: Beasts Lurk in Front of Caracas (The Lost Continent) (& director)
- 1967: Robin Hood, the freedom hero (A Challenge for Robin Hood)
- 1969: Bandits on the Moon (Moon Zero Two) (script only)
- 1969: Crescendo - The Handwriting of Satan (Crescendo)
- 1970: Sex Six Million Years Ago (Creatures the World Forgot) (& screenplay)
- 1970: Ti Lung - the deadly shadow of Mr. Shatter (Shatter) (& director)
- 1971: The grave Blood from the Mummy (Blood from the Mummy's Tomb) (only co-directed)
- 1971: Straight On Till Morning
- 1972: A First Class Funeral (That's Your Funeral)
- 1972: demons of the soul (Demons of the Mind)
- 1973: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires)
- 1974: The Ghoul (screenplay only)
- 1979: Deadly Message (The Lady Vanishes)
literature
- 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 , pp. 7-12.
Web links
- Michael Carreras in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carreras, Michael |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carreras, Michael Henry (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film producer, screenwriter, director and studio manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1994 |
Place of death | London |