Michael Carreras
Production · Born 1927-12-21 · age 66 at death · Wandsworth, London, England, UK
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.
Titles
Dracula
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Mummy
The Brides of Dracula
One Million Years B.C.
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Curse of the Werewolf
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Taste of Fear
Quatermass 2
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Damned
The Abominable Snowman
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
X: The Unknown
The Lady Vanishes
She
Cash on Demand
Demons of the Mind
The Lost Continent
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Maniac
Moon Zero Two
Yesterday's Enemy
Sword of Sherwood Forest
The Snorkel
Straight On Till Morning
The Terror of the Tongs
Hell Is a City
The Pirates of Blood River
The Stranglers of Bombay
Ten Seconds to Hell
Slave Girls
Creatures the World Forgot
Crescendo
Shatter
The Last Page
Blackout
The Camp on Blood Island
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Four Sided Triangle
Spaceways
Visa to Canton
The Gambler and the Lady
The Stranger Came Home
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Face the Music
A Weekend with Lulu
Blood Orange
Third Party Risk
Tales of Frankenstein
What a Crazy World
Nearest and Dearest
The Ugly Duckling
The Steel Bayonet
Lady in the Fog
Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard