Michael Carreras

Michael Carreras

Known For: Production

Date Of Birth:1927-12-21

Place Of Birth: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.

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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Tales of Frankenstein
One Million Years B.C.
One Million Years B.C.
The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent
The Brides of Dracula
Dracula
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Moon Zero Two
Moon Zero Two
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Ugly Duckling
The Curse of the Werewolf
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Terror of the Tongs
Hell Is a City
The Snorkel
Maniac
Cash on Demand
Demons of the Mind
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Slave Girls
Slave Girls
Taste of Fear
She
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
The Mummy
Crescendo
The Damned
Shatter
The Steel Bayonet
Four Sided Triangle
Creatures the World Forgot
Tierra brutal
The Stranger Came Home
Visa to Canton
Break in the Circle
The Camp on Blood Island
Yesterday's Enemy
X: The Unknown
What a Crazy World
Quatermass 2
The Stranglers of Bombay
The Last Page
The Steel Bayonet
The Abominable Snowman
Shatter
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Slave Girls
The Curse of Frankenstein
Blood Orange
The Gambler and the Lady
Spaceways
Lady in the Fog
Sword of Sherwood Forest
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Death of an Angel
The Lady Vanishes
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
The Pirates of Blood River
A Case For P.C. 49
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Ten Seconds to Hell
Face the Music
The Stranger Came Home
Murder by Proxy
Third Party Risk
That's Your Funeral
Nearest and Dearest
Creatures the World Forgot
What a Crazy World
Visa to Canton
The Right Person
Straight On Till Morning