Harry Alan Towers

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Harry Alan Towers (born October 19, 1920 in London , England - † July 31, 2009 ) was a British film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Towers initially wrote several novels under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck before he began writing film scripts in 1946 . He had already started writing for the radio during World War II in the service of the Royal Air Force . In 1952/53 he produced the radio program The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower based on the novels by CS Forester . Inspired by the movie " The Third Man " (1949) with Orson Welles , Towers and his company Towers of London also produced a multi-part radio series under the title The Lives of Harry Lime .

Since the early 1960s, Towers has also produced films, mostly based on its own scripts, as well as adventure films based on stories by Sax Rohmer (Doctor Fu Man Chu , Sumuru) and Edgar Wallace (Sanders). In the late 1960s, Towers also produced some films by Spanish director enfant terribles Jess Franco . Film productions he made (often in coproduction with Cannon Films ) in the late 1980s were marked by a lot of violence.

Towers was married to the Austrian actress Maria Rohm since 1964 . He died on July 31, 2009 after a brief illness.

Filmography (selection)

film producer
  • 1984: The Hollywood Clan ( Love Scenes )
  • 1985: La Ronde de l'amour
  • 1986: Lightning the white stallion ( Lightning - The White Stallion , + screenplay)
  • 1987: Warrior Queen (+ screenplay)
  • 1987: 24 Hours to Hell ( Skeleton Coast , + screenplay)
  • 1987: Dragonard - The Slave Whip ( Dragonard , + screenplay)
  • 1987: The Lord of Dragonard Hill ( Master of Dragonard Hill , + screenplay)
  • 1988: Gor
  • 1988: The Outlaw of Gor ( Outlaw of Gor , + screenplay)
  • 1988: Platoon Leader - War Knows No Heroes ( Platoon Leader , + screenplay)
  • 1988: Howling ( Howling IV: The Original Nightmare )
  • 1988: The House of Usher
  • 1988: Fire on Fire ( Captive Rage , + screenplay)
  • 1989: American Fighter 3 - The Bloody Hunt ( American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt )
  • 1989: Split ( Edge of Sanity )
  • 1989: Death on Safari ( Ten Little Indians )
  • 1989: River of Death - River of horror ( River of Death )
  • 1989: The Phantom of the Opera ( The Phantom of the Opera )
  • 1990: Riptide ( Masque of the Red Death )
  • 1990: Death scream in the girls' boarding school ( Lost Girls )
  • 1990: Oddball Hall - Now the gods are freaking out ( Oddball Hall )
  • 1991: House of Pain ( Dance Macabre )
  • 1991: Hitman ( The Hitman )
  • 1991: Delta Force 3 ( Delta Force III: The Killing Game )
  • 1992: The Lost World ( Return to the Lost World , + writer)
  • 1992: Return to the Lost World ( Return to the Lost World , + writer)
  • 1993: Tobe Hoopers Living Nightmare ( Night Terrors )
  • 1993: Mummy Valley ( The Mummy Lives )
  • 1995: The Mangler (+ screenplay)
  • 1995: The Palmer Files: The Red Death ( Bullet to Beijing , + screenplay)
  • 1996: The Palmer Files: Lords of the Apocalypse ( Midnight in St. Petersburg , + screenplay)
  • 1995: Cry, the Beloved Country
  • 1997: Adventure on Shepherd's Island ( Owd Bob , + screenplay)
  • 1997: Treasure Island ( Treasure Iceland )
  • 2000: Queen's Messenger
  • 2000: Escape from the death zone ( High Explosive , + screenplay)
  • 2001: She
  • 2001: Dorian - Pact with the Devil ( Dorian )
  • 2001: City of Fear - Stadt in Angst ( City of Fear )
  • 2001: Quatermain - The Treasure of Kings ( High Adventure , + screenplay)
  • 2001: Terror on the Orient Express ( Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express , + screenplay)
  • 2003: Sumuru - Planet of Women ( Sumuru , + screenplay)
  • 2004: fatal detour

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personal data
SURNAME Towers, Harry Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welbeck, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2009