Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher ( born February 23, 1904 in London, † June 18, 1980 ) was a British director and editor. Fisher was known as a master director of the British Hammer Studios where he was primarily responsible for, among other things, the success of the film series to Dracula and Frankenstein with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Life
Fisher began his career as a sailor, businessman and adventurer before he started in 1929 as an assistant to director Ian Dalrymple at Gainsborough. In this production company he also shot his first films, until he moved to Hammer Films and associate director of the famous horror film studios was. In 1957, under his direction the hammer first horror film in color: The Curse of Frankenstein with Peter Cushing in the lead role. Fisher gave the film to 1972 a total of four sequels followed ( always again with Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein ). In 1958 he turned with Dracula the first of his three Dracula films; In 1960, The Brides of Dracula, 1965 Blood for Dracula. Terence Fisher also shot two films about the master detective Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1958) and Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962 ), although the latter was not for hammer, but for the German producer Artur Brauner.
In his films, Fisher frequently intervened back to classical literature templates by authors such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. For the screenplay adaptations of these templates was responsible in many cases, Jimmy Sangster. Fisher always considered himself a craftsman, held on to his tight, simple style, is otherwise known only by Hollywood directors. With his films he made actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing stars.
Fisher died on 18 June 1980 at the age of 76 in London of a heart attack.