According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died. He was 89.
A former small-time actor (The Planter's Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in Hobart) is best remembered for several low-budget thrillers he directed in the 1960s, such as Hammer's The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), the sci-fier Curse of the Fly (1965), and the The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), starring Christopher Lee as the East Asian fiend.
Sharp's other notable efforts include The Death Wheelers / Psychomania (1973), about a youth gang terrorizing a small town; the Ira drama Hennessy (1975), with A-listers Rod Steiger and Lee Remick; The Thirty Nine Steps, an underrated remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic starring Robert Powell in Robert Donat's old man-on-the-run role; and the slow-moving adventure drama Bear Island, featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sutherland.
Sharp also worked on British television, directing several episodes from The Avengers. Other notable television efforts were a...
A former small-time actor (The Planter's Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in Hobart) is best remembered for several low-budget thrillers he directed in the 1960s, such as Hammer's The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), the sci-fier Curse of the Fly (1965), and the The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), starring Christopher Lee as the East Asian fiend.
Sharp's other notable efforts include The Death Wheelers / Psychomania (1973), about a youth gang terrorizing a small town; the Ira drama Hennessy (1975), with A-listers Rod Steiger and Lee Remick; The Thirty Nine Steps, an underrated remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic starring Robert Powell in Robert Donat's old man-on-the-run role; and the slow-moving adventure drama Bear Island, featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sutherland.
Sharp also worked on British television, directing several episodes from The Avengers. Other notable television efforts were a...
- 12/19/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Act Of Will by A.J. Hartley (Tor, hc, 336 pp, $24.95)
Act Of Will reads like it's the offspring of an Andre Norton and Fritz Leiber collaboration. Hartley's hero talks and talks and talks his way in and out of trouble, narrating his adventures with gusto and a sly, self-deprecating charm that draws in the reader. While the plot is enjoyable and well-developed-an actor and playwright on the run from the Empire falls in with a group of adventurers investigating a mystical army wrecking havoc on the countryside-it's hero Will Hawthorne who holds the reader's attention. Initially ironic and detached, the orphaned Will is soon enveloped in a web of relationships that sets him on the path to maturity-if he can only survive the journey.
Act Cover Art: Tim Bowers/Vincent de Beauvais...
Act Of Will reads like it's the offspring of an Andre Norton and Fritz Leiber collaboration. Hartley's hero talks and talks and talks his way in and out of trouble, narrating his adventures with gusto and a sly, self-deprecating charm that draws in the reader. While the plot is enjoyable and well-developed-an actor and playwright on the run from the Empire falls in with a group of adventurers investigating a mystical army wrecking havoc on the countryside-it's hero Will Hawthorne who holds the reader's attention. Initially ironic and detached, the orphaned Will is soon enveloped in a web of relationships that sets him on the path to maturity-if he can only survive the journey.
Act Cover Art: Tim Bowers/Vincent de Beauvais...
- 6/11/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (PENNY KENNY)
- Starlog
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