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Donald Herman Sharp (19 April 1921 – 14 December 2011) was an Australian film director. His best known films were made for Hammer in the 1960s, and included Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966). In 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee.
Don Sharp. Director: Bear Island. Don Sharp was born on the island of Tasmania off of Australia, and began his show-business career there as an actor. After World War II he traveled to England and continued his acting carer.
- Don Sharp
- December 14, 2011
- April 19, 1921
Dec 27, 2011 · Don Sharp, an Australia-born film director who was brought in to revive Hammer Films’ sagging horror franchise in the mid-1960s — and succeeded — despite having no experience in the genre, died...
Dec 23, 2011 · Don Sharp, a veteran film director who had never watched a horror movie until Hammer Films — the English studio described, usually admiringly, as dripping cinematic blood — enlisted him in the...
Dec 29, 2011 · A string of British horror films in the 1960s carved out a place in cinema history for the Australian director Don Sharp, although his achievements tended to receive recognition from a cult...
Don Sharp. Director: Bear Island. Don Sharp was born on the island of Tasmania off of Australia, and began his show-business career there as an actor. After World War II he traveled to England and continued his acting carer.
Dec 18, 2011 · Don Sharp is known as an Director, Writer, Screenplay, Actor, Producer, Editor, and Adaptation. Some of his work includes The Avengers, The Kiss of the Vampire, Rasputin: The Mad Monk, Curse of the Fly, Psychomania, Hammer House of Horror, Bear Island, and The Face of Fu Manchu.
