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Michael Carreras

Michael Carreras

Personal Info:

KNOWN FOR

Production

GENDER

male

BIRTHDAY

1927-12-21

DAY OF DEATH

1994-04-19

PLACE OF BIRTH

Wandsworth, London, England, UK

ALSO KNOWN AS

Henry YoungerMichael Nash

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Henry Carreras (21 December 1927 – 19 April 1994) was a British film producer and director. He was known for his association with Hammer Films, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years.

As producer, he worked on The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Curse of the Werewolf (1960) and She (1965) among over sixty other films. He also wrote a smaller number of screenplays. He later turned to directing, with The Savage Guns / Tierra brutal (1961), Maniac (1963), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), Slave Girls (1967), The Lost Continent (1968) and Shatter (1975) among others. In 1971, he took over directing Blood from the Mummy's Tomb after director Seth Holt died partway through filming. Carreras died from cancer in London on 19 April 1994.

POPULAR MOVIES

acting

production

directing

writing