Don Sharp

Don Sharp

1922-04-19 38 Credits

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.

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Tears in the Rain

Tears in the Rain

1988

Director

5.1
Directing

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

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

1987

as Self - Director

6.4
Acting

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

What Waits Below

1984

Director

3.6
Directing

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

Guardian of the Abyss

1980

Director

Directing

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

Bear Island

1979

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

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

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Four Feathers

1978

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Hennessy

1975

Director

4.7
Directing

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

Callan

Callan

1974

Director

6.9
Directing

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

Dark Places

1973

Director, Adaptation

5.5
Directing

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

Psychomania

1973

Director

5.5
Directing

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!

Follow Me!

1972

Editor

7.5

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

Puppet on a Chain

1970

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

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

Taste of Excitement

1969

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

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

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

1967

Director

5.5
Directing

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

5.5
Directing

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

The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

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

Our Man in Marrakesh

1966

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

1966

Director

5.9
Directing

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

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Curse of the Fly

1965

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Legend of a Gunfighter

1964

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

The Devil-Ship Pirates

1964

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Witchcraft

1964

Director

6.8
Directing

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

The Kiss of the Vampire

1963

Director

6.2
Directing

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

It's All Happening

1963

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Directing

A boy and girl find true love for each other and escape from boredom and crime.

The Professionals

The Professionals

1960

Director

Directing

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

The Golden Disc

The Golden Disc

1958

Director, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Writing

The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.

The Adventures of Hal 5

1957

Director

5.0
Directing

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

The Blue Peter

1955

Writer, Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

The Stolen Airliner

1955

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.

Child's Play

Child's Play

1954

Writer

6.5
Writing

A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.

Conflict of Wings

Conflict of Wings

1954

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

The Cruel Sea

1953

as Lieutenant-Commander

7.0
Acting

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

The Planter's Wife

1952

as Lt. Summers

6.2
Acting

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

Ha'penny Breeze

1950

as Johnny Craig

5.7
Acting

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

Ha'penny Breeze

1950

Writer, Producer

5.7
Writing Producing

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...