Biography
Donald Herman Sharp was an Australian film director. His best known films were made for Hammer in the 1960s, and included Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin, the Mad Monk. In 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Tears in the Rain
1988
Director
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrive...

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as Self - Director
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips fro...

What Waits Below
1984
Director
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground ...

Guardian of the Abyss
1980
Director
A scrying glass puts an antiques exporter in the path of a woman fleeing from devil worshipers and the evil hypnotist who leads them. Originally an ep...

Bear Island
1979
Director, Screenplay
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders ta...

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
Director
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of...

The Four Feathers
1978
Director
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, ...

Hennessy
1975
Director
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...

Callan
1974
Director
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan refuse...

Dark Places
1973
Director, Adaptation
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in i...

Psychomania
1973
Director
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if the...

Follow Me!
1972
Editor
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.

Puppet on a Chain
1970
Writer, Director
Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with...

Taste of Excitement
1969
Director, Screenplay
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young gi...

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
Director
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbi...
The Violent Enemy
1967
Director
During the troubles in Ireland an IRA bomb plot is hatched to blow up a British power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) is an IRA bomb expert and escapes...

The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
Director, Writer
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. In...

Our Man in Marrakesh
1966
Director
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes...

Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
Director
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan...

The Face of Fu Manchu
1965
Director
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though...

Curse of the Fly
1965
Director
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, contin...

Legend of a Gunfighter
1964
Screenplay
After his parents are killed in a stagecoach holdup, a young man learns to be an expert gunman and with his dog Shorty, sets out to avenge their death...

The Devil-Ship Pirates
1964
Director
A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into a village on the British coast for repairs. The vi...

Witchcraft
1964
Director
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.

The Kiss of the Vampire
1963
Director
Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau th...

It's All Happening
1963
Director
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands...
Linda
1960
Director
A boy and girl find true love for each other and escape from boredom and crime.

The Professionals
1960
Director
A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

The Golden Disc
1958
Director, Screenplay
The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.
The Adventures of Hal 5
1957
Director
A very old Austin 7 car is found by two children and bought by their uncle, the Vicar, but the garage proprietor conceals its faulty transmission, whi...

The Blue Peter
1955
Writer, Screenplay
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and in...

The Stolen Airliner
1955
Director, Writer
Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.

Child's Play
1954
Writer
A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.

Conflict of Wings
1954
Screenplay
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved...

The Cruel Sea
1953
as Lieutenant-Commander
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...

The Planter's Wife
1952
as Lt. Summers
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

Ha'penny Breeze
1950
as Johnny Craig
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yach...

Ha'penny Breeze
1950
Writer, Producer
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yach...