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Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films . He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was ...
Terence Fisher. Director: Horror of Dracula. Terence Fisher was born in Maida Vale, England, in 1904. Raised by his grandmother in a strict Christian Scientist environment, Fisher left school while still in his teens to join the Merchant Marine.
Terence Fisher returns with this sequel, cementing the Count’s place as a terrifying icon in the history of Hammer Films Productions. Fisher’s portrayal of Dracula as a menacing and relentless force is a highlight, with Christopher Lee’s chilling performance bringing his signature powerful presence.
Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England. Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century.
Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films. Quick Facts Born, Died ... He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day.
Terence Fisher 's critical reputation rests almost entirely on the horror films he directed for Hammer in the 1950s and 1960s, but he was a more versatile filmmaker than his horror output suggests. Born in London on 23 February 1904, he served in the Merchant Navy before entering the film industry in 1933. From 1936 to 1947 he worked as a film ...
Fisher has been well served in print, first of all in David Pirie’s original A Heritage of Horror (1973), which Fisher, according to Dalton (453), regarded as the ‘definitive’ analysis of the British horror film, then in Peter Hutchings’s Terence Fisher (2001) and more recently in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s The Films of Terence Fisher ...
