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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 was an Australian-born director who worked in England and made musicals, thrillers, horror films and TV shows. He directed Christopher Lee six times and died in 2011 at age 90.
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Dec 23, 2011 · Donald Herman Sharp was born on April 19, 1922, in Tasmania, Australia, and enlisted in the Australian Air Force in 1941. He began acting on stage and radio. Emigrating to England in 1949, he ...
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Dec 27, 2011 · Don Sharp was an Australian-born filmmaker who revived Hammer Films' Gothic horror franchise in the 1960s with films like \"The Kiss of the Vampire\" and \"Rasputin: The Mad Monk\". He also directed spy and thriller movies and TV shows, such as \"The Avengers\" and \"A Woman of Substance\".
Dec 20, 2011 · Tue 20 Dec 2011 10.11 EST. In 1962, Don Sharp was a minor ex-actor, hack writer and jobbing director of British B-films, when he was offered the chance to make a gothic horror movie for Hammer ...
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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. He became a director in the mid-1950s and turned out some low- and medium-budget musicals, such as the Tommy Steele vehicle The Dream Maker (1963). In the mid-1960s he was ...
Dec 29, 2011 · Don Sharp was an Australian-born director who made his mark with gothic horror films for Hammer and other companies in the 1960s. He also worked on comedies, thrillers and adaptations of John Buchan and Alistair MacLean novels.
