Terence Fisher

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Terence Fisher (born February 23, 1904 in London , † June 18, 1980 ibid) was a British director and film editor . Fisher became known mainly as the regular director of the British Hammer Studios , where he was responsible for the success of the Dracula and Frankenstein film series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing .

Life

Fisher began his career as a seaman, merchant and adventurer before joining Gainsborough in 1929 as an assistant to director Ian Dalrymple . He also made his first films with this production company until he switched to Hammer Films and became the in-house director of the famous horror film studio. In 1957 he directed Hammer's first horror film in color: Frankenstein's Curse with Peter Cushing in the lead role. Fisher let the film follow a total of four sequels to 1972 (always again with Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein ). In 1958 he shot the first of his three Dracula films with Dracula ; Dracula and his brides followed in 1960, and blood for Dracula in 1965 . Terence Fisher also made two films about the master detective Sherlock Holmes : The Dog of Baskerville (1958) and Sherlock Holmes and the Collar of Death (1962), the latter, however, was not made for Hammer, but for the German producer Artur Brauner .

In his films, Fisher often resorted to classic literary sources by authors such as Bram Stoker , Mary Shelley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson . In many cases, Jimmy Sangster was responsible for adapting these scripts . Fisher always saw himself as a craftsman, stuck to his tight, simple style that is otherwise only known from Hollywood directors. With his films he made actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing into stars.

Fisher died in London on June 18, 1980 at the age of 76 of complications from a heart attack .

Filmography

Film editor

  • 1939: Verstrickung (On the Night of the Fire)
  • 1940: That's the ticket
  • 1941: Atlantic Ferry
  • 1942: Flying Fortress
  • 1943: The Peterville Diamond
  • 1943: Tomorrow We Live

Director

  • 1948 A Song for Tomorrow
  • 1948 Colonel Bogey
  • 1948 Portrait from Life
  • 1949 Marry Me
  • 1949 The Astonished Heart
  • 1950 Paris at midnight (So ​​Long at the Fair)
  • 1951 Home to Danger
  • 1952 Blackmailer (The Last Page)
  • 1952 Wings of Danger
  • 1952 Stolen Face
  • 1952 Distant Trumpet
  • 1953 mantrap
  • 1952 Four Sided Triangle
  • 1953 Spaceways
  • 1953 Blood Orange
  • 1954 Face the Music
  • 1954 Murder by Proxy
  • 1954 The Stranger Came Home
  • 1954 Final Appointment
  • 1954 Mask of Dust
  • 1955 Children Galore
  • 1955 The trail leads to Ambledown (Stolen Assignment)
  • 1955 The Flaw
  • 1956 The Last Man to Hang?

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Terence Fisher in: Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion , by Paul Leggett, 2002, p. Iv
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Terence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1980
Place of death London