List of horror films of 1961
Table:
Horror films released in 1961

Title

Director

Cast

Country

Notes

The Beast of Yucca Flats

Coleman Francis
Douglas Mellor, Larry Aten, Barbara Francis
United States
[1]

The Brainiac

Chano Urueta
Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter, David Silvia
Mexico
[2]

Bloodlust!

Ralph Brooke
Wilton Graff, Robert Reed, June Kenney
United States

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Roger Corman, Monte Hellman
Roger Corman, Edward Wain, E. R. Alvarez
United States
[3]

The Curse of the Crying Woman

Rafael Baledon
Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo
Mexico
[4]

The Curse of the Werewolf

Terence Fisher
Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain
United Kingdom
United States
[5]

Doctor Blood's Coffin

Sidney J. Furie
Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kieron Moore
United Kingdom
United States
[6]

Homicidal

William Castle
Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Jean Arless
United States
[7]

The Innocents

Jack Clayton
Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin
United Kingdom
[8]

Konga

John Lemont
Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad
United Kingdom
United States
[9]

Maciste in the Land of the Cyclops

Antonio Leonviola
Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti
Italy
[10]

The Mask

Julian Roffman
Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
Canada
[11]

Mr. Sardonicus

William Castle
Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton, Oscar Homolka
United States
[12]

The Pit and the Pendulum

Roger Corman
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
United States
[13]

Shadow of the Cat

John Gilling
André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas
United Kingdom
United States
[14]

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

Paolo Heusch
Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens
Italy
[15][16]

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The Beast of Yucca Flats ( released to television as Atomic Monster : The Beast of Yucca Flats ) is a 1961 B-movie horror film written and directed by Coleman Francis . It was produced by Anthony Cardoza , Roland Morin and Jim Oliphant . The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson as the Beast . It starred Anthony Cardoza , Coleman Francis and Jim Oliphant in bit parts , as well as Conrad Brooks in a very small role . Director Francis cast his two sons ( Ronald and Alan Francis ) in the film as the two lost boys . The plot concerns a Soviet scientist named Joseph Jaworsky ( Tor Johnson ) , who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats , only to be turned into a mindless monster by atomic radiation , stalking the desert . The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration . Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made , and one of the all-time worst films of any kind , even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood 's legendarily bad Plan 9 from Outer Space . In 1995 , the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured The Beast of Yucca Flats , helping the film develop a cult status .
Coleman C. Francis ( January 24 , 1919 - January 15 , 1973 ) was an American actor , writer , producer and director . He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats ( 1961 ) , The Skydivers ( 1963 ) and Red Zone Cuba ( 1966 ) , all three of which were filmed in the general vicinity of Santa Clarita , California . Hallmarks of Francis ' films include preoccupation with light aircraft and parachuting , coffee or cigarettes serving as props or centers of conversation and vigilante-style gunning down of suspects without trial at the films ' conclusions . Francis and his films have gained a cult status as a result of their appearances on the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 , where they became infamous for their poor production values , repetitive plot devices , meandering and incomprehensible storylines , and stilted acting . Some critics have characterized Francis as being the worst director of all-time , even suggesting that he may surpass Ed Wood in terms of ineptitude .
El Baron del Terror ( lit . The Baron of Terror ; American release title : The Brainiac ) is a 1962 Mexican supernatural horror film , directed by Chano Urueta , written by Federico Curiel , Adolfo López Portillo and Antonio Orellana , and starring its producer , Abel Salazar .
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra ( February 24 , 1904 - March 23 , 1979 ) , more commonly known as Chano Urueta , was a Mexican film director , producer , screenwriter , and actor .
Abel Salazar García ( 24 September 1917 - 21 October 1995 ) was a Mexican actor , producer and director . He appeared in 70 films between 1941 and 1989 . He was a son of Don García and his wife , and brother to Don Alfredo Salazar .
Ariadne Welter ( June 29 , 1930 - December 13 , 1998 ) was a Mexican movie actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema . She appeared in the Luis Buñuel film The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz ( 1955 ) . In 1956 she starred in the film El Vampiro , a classic aming Mexican horror films .
Bloodlust ! is a 1961 American horror thriller film based on Richard Connell 's short story The Most Dangerous Game . It was produced by Robert H. Bagley and written , directed and produced by Ralph Brooke for Cinegraf Productions . The movie stars Wilton Graff , June Kenney , Joan Lora , Eugene Persson and Robert Reed . Its plot follows four young adults who visit a tropical island only to become prey for a sadistic hunter . It was filmed in 1959 but not released until 1961 , when it was the second movie on a double feature with The Devil 's Hand .
Ralph Brooke ( 1553-1625 ) was an English Officer of Arms in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I . He is known for his critiques of the work of other members of the College of Arms , most particularly in A Discoverie of Certaine Errours Published in Print in the Much Commended 'Britannia ' 1594 , which touched off a feud with its author , the revered antiquarian and herald William Camden .
Wilton Graff ( 13 August 1903 - 13 January 1969 ) was an American actor .
Robert Reed ( born John Robert Rietz Jr. ; October 19 , 1932 - May 12 , 1992 ) was an American actor . He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall , and is best known for his role as the father Mike Brady , opposite Florence Henderson 's role as Carol Brady , on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch , which aired from 1969 to 1974 . He later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs . In 1976 , he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man , Poor Man . The following year , Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots .
June Sebastian ( née Kenney , born July 6 , 1933 ) is an American actress known for her work in B movies in the late 1950s .
Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman . Written by Charles B. Griffith , the film is a parody of spy , gangster , and monster movies ( mostly Creature from the Black Lagoon ) , concerning a secret agent , XK150 ( played by Robert Towne under the pseudonym Edward Wain ) , who goes under the code name Sparks Moran in order to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Renzo Capetto ( Antony Carbone ) , who is trying to transport a colonel , a group of exiled Cuban nationals , and a large portion of the Cuban treasury out of the country .
Roger William Corman ( born April 5 , 1926 ) is an American director , producer , and actor . He has been called The Pope of Pop Cinema and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film . Much of Corman 's work has an established critical reputation , such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe . In 1964 , Corman -- admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du cinéma -- became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française , as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art . He was the co-founder of New World Pictures , the founder of New Concorde and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . In 2009 , he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers . Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola , Ron Howard , Martin Scorsese , Jonathan Demme , John Sayles , and James Cameron , and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s . He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda , Jack Nicholson , Dennis Hopper , Bruce Dern , Sylvester Stallone , Diane Ladd , and William Shatner . Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him , including The Silence of the Lambs , The Godfather Part II , Apollo 13 , The Manchurian Candidate and Philadelphia . A documentary about Corman 's life and career entitled Corman 's World : Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel , directed by Alex Stapleton , premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011 . The film 's TV rights were picked up by A & E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance .
Monte Hellman /ˈmɔːnti/ ( born July 12 , 1932 ) is an American film director , producer , writer , and editor . Hellman began his career as an editor 's apprentice at ABC TV , and made his directorial debut with the horror film Beast from Haunted Cave ( 1959 ) , produced by Roger Corman . He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind ( both 1966 ) starring Jack Nicholson , and the independent road movie Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 ) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson . His later directorial work has included the 1989 slasher film Silent Night , Deadly Night 3 : Better Watch Out ! and the independent thriller Road to Nowhere ( 2010 ) .
Robert Towne ( born Robert Bertram Schwartz ; November 23 , 1934 ) is an American screenwriter , producer , director and actor . He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking . He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski 's Chinatown ( 1974 ) , which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written . He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams 's Southern California Country : An Island on the Land ( 1946 ) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler 's Los Angeles . Towne also wrote the sequel , The Two Jakes ( 1990 ) ; the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail ( 1973 ) and Shampoo ( 1975 ) ; and the first two Mission : Impossible films . Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best ( 1982 ) and Without Limits ( 1998 ) , the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) , and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust ( 2006 ) .
The Curse of the Crying Woman ( Spanish : La maldición de la llorona ) is a 1961 Mexican horror film ( released in 1963 ) , directed by Rafael Baledón . The film is about Amelia and Jaime , a married couple who travel to an old country house owned by Amelia 's aunt Selma , who practices black magic . Selma tries to use her niece in order to resurrect la llorona ( the crying woman ) , an ancient spectre .
Rafael Baledón Cárdenas ( 25 November 1919 - 6 May 1994 ) was a Mexican actor , director , screenwriter , and producer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema . He worked in both film and television .
Rosa Rosita Arenas ( born 19 August 1933 ) is a Mexican actress whose film career was most prominent during the 1950s and 1960s . She was born in Caracas , Venezuela , the daughter of Spanish actor Miguel Arenas . At age 16 , she was named Reina de la Primavera ( Queen of the Spring ) , and subsequently made her film debut in Anacleto se divorcia ( 1950 ) . She received more important roles in ¡¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer ? ! ( 1951 ) , with Pedro Infante and Luis Aguilar , and El señor fotógrafo ( 1953 ) , with Cantinflas . She also tried her hand at singing ; in Los chiflados del rock and roll ( 1957 ) , she sang the songs Se me hizo fácil , Serenata huasteca , and Qué manera de perder .
The Curse of the Werewolf is a 1961 British horror film based on the novel The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore . The film was made by the British company Hammer Film Productions and was shot at Bray Studios on sets that were constructed for the proposed Spanish inquisition themed The Rape of Sabena , a film that was shelved when the BBFC objected to the script . The location of the story was adjusted to Madrid to save building new Parisian sets . The leading part of the werewolf was Oliver Reed 's first starring role in a film . Benjamin Frankel 's score is notable for its use of twelve-tone serialism , rare in film music . The film was heavily censored in the UK on its initial release and was first shown in a restored print on the BBC in 1993 . The planned premiere TV screening of the restored print on Oct 31st 1992 , during an all night horror film marathon hosted by Dr. Walpurgis ( later named Dr. Terror ) Guy Henry unfortunately resulted in the censored version being aired by mistake .
Terence Fisher ( 23 February 1904 - 18 June 1980 ) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films . He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour , and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films , while mild by modern standards , were unprecedented in his day . His first major gothic horror film was The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ) , which launched Hammer 's association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era . He went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects , including Dracula ( 1958 ) , The Mummy ( 1959 ) , and The Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961 ) . Given their subject matter and lurid approach , Fisher 's films , though commercially successful , were largely dismissed by critics during his career . It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right . His most famous films are characterised by a blend of fairytale myth and the supernatural alongside themes of sexuality , morality , and the charm of evil . Drawing heavily on a Christian conservative outlook , there is often a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason , in contrast to other characters , who are either blindly superstitious or bound by cold , godless rationalism . For detailed discussions of Fisher 's work , see Terence Fisher : Horror , Myth , and Religion by Paul Leggett ( McFarland and Co , 2002 ) , British Film Makers : Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings ( Manchester University Press , 2013 ) , and The Films of Terence Fisher : Hammer Horror and Beyond by Wheeler Winston Dixon ( Auteur Publishing , 2017 ) .
Clifford George Evans ( 17 February 1912 - 9 June 1985 ) was a Welsh actor . During the summer of 1934 Evans appeared in A Midsummer Night 's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in London . He played many parts in British films of the 1930s , then during the Second World War was a conscientious objector , serving in the Non-Combatant Corps . He continued to act during the war and starred in the films The Foreman Went to France ( 1942 ) and The Flemish Farm ( 1943 ) . After the war , Evans 's best known film roles were for Hammer Studios : he played Don Alfredo Carledo in The Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961 ) and Professor Zimmer , an inebriated vampire-hunter , in The Kiss of the Vampire ( 1963 ) . His last film role may have been in the movie Dylan ( 1978 ) . On television , Evans appeared with George Woodbridge and Tim Turner in the 15-episode series Stryker of the Yard ( 1957 ) . Between 1965 and 1969 , he played a major role in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game , playing building tycoon Caswell Bligh . He is also among several British actors to play the character of Number Two in The Prisoner ( Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling , 1967 ) . He also appeared in three episodes of The Avengers , in The Champions , The Saint , and Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) ( When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things ? , 1969 ) . The following year , he played Sir Iain Dalzell , a leading character in the BBC TV series Codename ( 1970 ) . He married Hermione Hannen , who was an actress .
Robert Oliver Reed ( 13 February 1938 - 2 May 1999 ) was an English actor known for his upper-middle class , macho image and hellraiser lifestyle . Notable films include The Trap ( 1966 ) , playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver ! ( 1968 ) , Women in Love ( 1969 ) , Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ) , The Devils ( 1971 ) , portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) , Tommy ( 1975 ) , Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ) , Castaway ( 1986 ) , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) , Funny Bones ( 1995 ) and Gladiator ( 2000 ) . For playing Antonius Proximo , the old , gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott 's Gladiator ( 2000 ) in what was his final film , Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role . At the peak of his career , in 1971 , British exhibitors voted Reed 5th most popular star at the box office . An alcoholic , Reed 's issues with drink were well publicised , from appearances on chat shows to a high-profile friendship with drinking partner , the Who drummer Keith Moon , with the two meeting while working on Tommy .
Yvonne Romain ( born Yvonne Warren , 17 February 1938 ) is a British film and television actress of the late 1950s and 1960s .
Doctor Blood 's Coffin is a 1961 British horror film produced by George Fowler , and directed by Sidney J. Furie . It stars Kieron Moore , Hazel Court and Ian Hunter . The story is that of young biochemist Dr Peter Blood ( Kieron Moore ) , who returns to his hometown in Cornwall with the belief that he can selectively restore life by transplanting the living hearts of 'undeserving ' people into dead people who 'deserve ' to live . The film is significant for being one of the first two zombie movies to be shot in colour , the other being the obscure 1961 US film The Dead One and for its early portrayal of zombies as homicidal rotting cadavers . The movie was released in the UK in January 1961 and in the US in April of that year , where it was on a double bill with another British film , The Snake Woman ( 1961 ) .
Sidney Joseph Furie ( born February 28 , 1933 ) is a Canadian film director , screenwriter , and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s . Like his contemporaries Norman Jewison and Ted Kotcheff , he was one of earliest Canadian directors to achieve mainstream critical and financial success outside their native country at a time when its film industry was virtually nonexistent . He won a BAFTA Film Award and was nominated for a Palme d'Or for his work on the acclaimed spy thriller The Ipcress File starring Michael Caine . He is the last surviving of the three great Sidney directors of the later 20th Century : Sidney Lumet ( d.2011 ) , Sydney Pollack ( d.2008 ) and Sidney Furie . He is considered by some an auteur director , elevating otherwise unremarkable genre films through strong , creative visuals , and atmospheric direction . His 1981 horror film The Entity was declared by director Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest movies of all time , and his Vietnam War film The Boys in Company C was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick 's Full Metal Jacket . He is also the co-creator of the Iron Eagle action film franchise , and directed three of its four entries .
Hazel Court ( 10 February 1926 - 15 April 2008 ) was an English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s .
Ian Hunter ( 13 June 1900 - 22 September 1975 ) was a South African actor .
Kieron Moore ( born Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin , anglicised as Kieron O'Hanrahan ) ( 5 October 1924 - 15 July 2007 ) was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s . He may be best remembered for his role as Count Vronsky in the 1948 film adaptation of Anna Karenina opposite Vivien Leigh .
Homicidal is a 1961 American horror-thriller film produced and directed by William Castle , and starring Glenn Corbett , Patricia Breslin , Eugenie Leontovich , Alan Bunce , and Jean Arless . The film follows a murderous woman in a small California town whose presence unearths secrets concerning a prominent local family . As with many of Castle 's films , the film was released with a promotional gimmick - in this case , a fright break , that allowed patrons to receive a refund if they were too scared to stay for the climax of the film .
William Castle ( April 24 , 1914 - May 31 , 1977 ) was an American film director , producer , screenwriter , and actor . Orphaned at 11 , Castle dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the theater . He came to the attention of Columbia Pictures for his talent for promotion and was hired . He learned the trade of filmmaking and became a director , acquiring a reputation for the ability to churn out competent B-movies quickly and on budget . He eventually struck out on his own , producing and directing thrillers , which , despite their low budgets , were effectively promoted with gimmicks , a trademark for which he is best known . He was also the producer for Rosemary 's Baby .
Glenn Corbett ( born Glenn Edwin Rothenburg ; August 17 , 1933 - January 16 , 1993 ) was an American actor in movies and television for more than thirty years . Corbett came to national attention in the early 1960s when he replaced George Maharis in the cast of the popular CBS adventure drama Route 66 . He followed this with roles in high-profile films and television shows like the original Star Trek series , the daytime soap opera The Doctors , the prime-time soap Dallas , and movies like Chisum with John Wayne , and the World War II epic Midway .
Patricia Rose Breslin ( March 17 , 1931 - October 12 , 2011 ) was an American actress and philanthropist . She had a prominent career in television , which included recurring roles as Amanda Miller on The People 's Choice ( 1955-58 ) , and as Laura Harrington Brooks on Peyton Place ( 1964-65 ) . She also appeared in Go , Man , Go ! ( 1954 ) , and the William Castle horror films Homicidal ( 1961 ) and I Saw What You Did ( 1965 ) . In 1969 , Breslin married NFL mogul Art Modell , and became a well-known philanthropist while living in both Cleveland , Ohio , and Baltimore , Maryland , donating millions of dollars to various educational , health , and art organizations , including the SEED Foundation of Maryland and the Baltimore Museum of Art . She also helped open the Hospice of the Western Reserve at the Cleveland Clinic .
Joan Marshall ( born Joan Schrepfermann ; June 6 , 1931 - June 28 , 1992 ) was an American film and television actress . She is best known for her appearances in The Twilight Zone 's Dead Man 's Shoes , and Star Trek 's Court Martial .
The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton , and starring Deborah Kerr , Michael Redgrave , and Megs Jenkins . Based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by the American novelist Henry James , the screenplay was adapted by William Archibald and Truman Capote , who used Archibald 's own stage play - also titled The Innocents - as a primary source text . Its plot follows a governess who watches over two children and comes to fear that their large estate is haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed . Archibald 's original screenplay for The Innocents was based on the premise that the paranormal events depicted were legitimate . Displeased with Archibald 's take on the material , director Jack Clayton appointed American writer Truman Capote to rework the script . Capote 's rewrites incorporated psychological themes , resulting in a final work that suggests other alternatives to the plot . Filming took place partly on location at the Gothic mansion of Sheffield Park in Sussex , with additional shoots occurring at Shepperton Studios in Surrey . Shot in CinemaScope , The Innocents incorporated bold minimal lighting as well as deep focus , employed by cinematographer Freddie Francis to achieve a distinctive - and sometimes claustrophobic - atmosphere . The film also pioneered the use of synthesised electronic sound created by Daphne Oram . The Innocents received international distribution from the American film studio 20th Century Fox , and received its London premiere on 24 November 1961 . It was released in the United States the following month on 15 December in Los Angeles and Christmas Day in New York City . The psychological underpinnings of the film 's screenplay have resulted in it being the subject of numerous critical and scholarly essays , particularly in the area of film theory .
Jack Clayton ( 1 March 1921 - 26 February 1995 ) was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen . Starting out as a teenage studio tea boy in 1935 , Clayton worked his way up through British film industry in a career that spanned nearly sixty years . He rapidly rose through a series of increasingly important roles in British film production , before shooting to international prominence as a director with his Oscar-winning feature film debut , the drama Room at the Top ( 1959 ) ; this was followed by the much-lauded horror film The Innocents ( 1961 ) , adapted from Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw . Clayton looked set for a brilliant future , and he was highly regarded by peers and critics alike , but a number of overlapping factors hampered his career . He was a notably 'choosy ' director , who by his own admission never made a film I did n't want to make , and he repeatedly turned down films ( including Alien ) that became huge hits for other directors . But he was also dogged by bad luck and bad timing - the Hollywood studios labelled him as 'difficult ' , and studio politics quashed a string of planned films in the 1970s , which were either taken out of his hands , or cancelled in the final stages of preparation . In 1977 , he suffered a double blow - his current film was cancelled just two weeks before shooting was due to begin , and a few months later he suffered a serious stroke which robbed him of the ability to speak , and put his career on hold for five years . Despite his relatively small oeuvre , the films of Jack Clayton continue to be appreciated , and both they and their director have been widely admired and praised by leading film critics like Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert , and by film industry peers including Harold Pinter , Martin Scorsese , Guillermo del Toro , François Truffaut , Tennessee Williams and Steven Spielberg .
Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer CBE ( 30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007 ) , known professionally as Deborah Kerr ( /kɑːr/ ) , was a Scottish film , theatre and television actress . During her international film career , she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I ( 1956 ) and a Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy ( a role she originated on Broadway ) . She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress . Deborah Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress , and holds the record for an actress nominated in the lead actress category without winning . In 1994 , however , having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA , Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as an artist of impeccable grace and beauty , a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection , discipline and elegance . As well as The King and I , her films include An Affair to Remember , From Here to Eternity , Quo Vadis , The Innocents , Black Narcissus , Heaven Knows , Mr. Allison , King Solomon 's Mines , The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , The Sundowners , and Separate Tables .
Muguette Mary Megs Jenkins ( 21 April 1917 - 5 October 1998 ) was an English character actress who appeared in British films and television programmes .
Pamela Franklin ( born 3 February 1950 ) is a British former actress . She is best known for her role in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ) , for which she won a NBR Award and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination . Franklin made her acting debut at the age of 11 in the film The Innocents ( 1961 ) . She later established herself as a scream queen in the 70s by appearing in the films Necromancy ( 1972 ) and The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ) .
Konga is a 1961 British/American international co-production science fiction horror film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough , Margo Johns and Austin Trevor . It was shot at Merton Park Studios and in Croydon for Anglo Amalgamated , then distributed in the United States by American International Pictures ( AIP ) as a double feature with Master of the World . Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US $ 500,000 film , with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres . Konga was the basis for a comic book series published by Charlton Comics and initially drawn by Steve Ditko ( prior to Ditko 's co-creation of Spider-Man ) in the 1960s .
John Lemont ( 1914-2004 ) was a Canadian-born film and television director .
Francis Michael Gough ( /ˈɡɒf/ GOF ; 23 November 1916 - 17 March 2011 ) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances . He is known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 , with his first role as Sir Arthur Holmwood in Dracula , and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher Batman tetralogy . He would appear in three more Burton films : in Sleepy Hollow , voicing Elder Gutknecht in Corpse Bride and the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland . Gough also appeared in popular British television shows , including Doctor Who , as the titular villain in The Celestial Toymaker ( 1966 ) and as Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity ( 1983 ) , and in a memorable episode of The Avengers as the automation-obsessed , wheelchair-bound Dr. Armstrong in The Cybernauts ( 1965 ) . In 1956 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor . At the National Theatre in London , Gough excelled as a comedian , playing a resigned and rueful parent in Alan Ayckbourns Bedroom Farce ( 1977 ) . When the comedy transferred to Broadway in 1978 he won a Tony Award . One of Gough 's funniest West End roles was as Baron von Epp in the 1983 revival of John Osbornes A Patriot for Me .
Margo Johns ( 4 September 1919 - 29 September 2009 ) was a British actress and the first wife of actor William Franklyn . Her film credits include Murder at the Windmill ( 1949 ) , Konga ( 1961 ) and This Is My Street ( 1964 ) , while her television credits include Dixon of Dock Green , Emergency - Ward 10 , The Saint and Yes Minister .
Jess Conrad OBE ( born Gerald Arthur James ; 24 February 1936 ) is an English stage and screen actor and singer . As a boy he was nicknamed Jesse after American outlaw Jesse James ; as there was already an actor named Gerald James in Actors ' Equity , a drama teacher who was a fan of writer Joseph Conrad suggested the stage name of Jess Conrad .
Gordon Mitchell ( born Charles Allen Pendleton ; July 29 , 1923 - September 20 , 2003 ) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies .
Chelo Alonso ( 10 April 1933 - 20 February 2019 ) was a Cuban actress who became a star in Italian cinema , and ultimately a 1960s cult film heroine and sex symbol in the U.S. She was well known for playing femmes fatales with fiery tempers and sensual dance scenes .
Vira Silenti ( 16 April 1931 - 1 November 2014 ) was an Italian actress .
The Mask ( re-released as Eyes of Hell ) is a 1961 Canadian surrealist horror film produced in 3-D by Warner Bros . It was directed by Julian Roffman , and stars Paul Stevens , Claudette Nevins , and Bill Walker . It was shot in Toronto , Ontario and is the first Canadian horror film .
Paul Stevens ( January 17 , 1921 - June 4 , 1986 ) was an American film and television actor . Stevens played Colonel Charles R. Codman in the 1970 film Patton . He also appeared in Exodus , as a key congressional witness in Advise and Consent and in Marlowe . Stevens portrayed Paul on the serial The Nurses . He appeared on the serial The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1976 ( as Bruce Henderson ) and on the soap opera Another World from 1977 to 1985 ( as Brian Bancroft ) . Stevens also played Mendez , one of the leaders of the mutant underground , in Battle for the Planet of the Apes . Stevens was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on Another World . Stevens was a guest star on many television series from 1954 until 1977 , including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , The Wild Wild West ( The Night of the Samurai ) , The Rockford Files , The Streets of San Francisco , Baretta , Ironside , Police Story , Gunsmoke , Mannix , Mission : Impossible , Hawaii Five-0 , McMillan and Wife and Playhouse 90 .
Claudette Nevins ( born Claudette Weintraub on April 10 , 1937 ) is an American stage , film and television actress .
Mr. Sardonicus is a 1961 horror film produced and directed by William Castle . It tells the story of Sardonicus , a man whose face becomes frozen in a horrifying grin while robbing his father 's grave to obtain a winning lottery ticket . Castle cited the film in his memoir as one of his favorites to produce .
Guy Rolfe ( born Edwin Arthur Rolfe , 27 December 1911 - 19 October 2003 ) was a British leading man and later character actor .
Audrey Dalton ( born 21 January 1934 ) is an Irish television and film actress .
Oscar Homolka ( 12 August 1898 - 27 January 1978 ) was an Austrian film and theatre actor , who went on to work in Germany , Britain and America . Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials , for which he was in regular demand . By the age of 30 , he had appeared in more than 400 plays ; his film career covered at least 100 films and TV shows .
The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film in Panavision and Pathe Color directed by Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price , Barbara Steele , John Kerr , and Luana Anders . The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 's 1842 short story of the same name . Set in sixteenth-century Spain , the story is about a young Englishman who visits a forbidding castle to investigate his sister 's mysterious death . After a series of horrific revelations , apparently ghostly appearances and violent deaths , the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film 's climactic sequence . The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe-based movies released by American International Pictures , the first having been Corman 's House of Usher released the previous year . Like House , the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby , sets designed by art director Daniel Haller , and a film score composed by Les Baxter . A critical and box-office hit , Pit 's success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories for another six films , five of them starring Price . The series ended in 1965 with the release of The Tomb of Ligeia . Film critic Tim Lucas and writer Ernesto Gastaldi have both noted the film 's strong influence on numerous subsequent Italian thrillers , from Mario Bava 's The Whip and the Body ( 1963 ) to Dario Argento 's Deep Red ( 1975 ) . Stephen King has described one of Pit 's major shock sequences as being among the most important moments in the post-1960 horror film .
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. ( May 27 , 1911 - October 25 , 1993 ) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films , although his career spanned other genres , including film noir , drama , mystery , thriller , and comedy . He appeared on stage , television , and radio , and in more than 100 films . He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , one for motion pictures and one for television . He was born and raised near St. Louis , Missouri and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame . He was an art collector and arts consultant with a degree in art history , and he lectured and wrote books on the subject . The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honor . He was also a noted gourmet cook .
John Grinham Kerr ( November 15 , 1931 - February 2 , 2013 ) was an American actor and attorney . He began his professional career on Broadway , earning critical acclaim for his performances in Mary Coyle Chase 's Bernardine and Robert Anderson 's Tea and Sympathy , before transitioning into a screen career . He reprised his role in the film version of Tea and Sympathy , which won him a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer , and portrayed Joseph Cable in the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical South Pacific . He subsequently appeared in number of television series , including a starring role on the primetime soap opera Peyton Place . In the 1970s , he largely moved away from acting to become a lawyer , making a few small cameos in Canadian-produced films like The Silent Partner and The Amateur . He operated a legal practice in Beverly Hills from until 2000 , when he retired from the profession .
Barbara Steele ( born 29 December 1937 ) is a British film actress and producer . Famous for her starring in Italian Gothic horror films of the 1960s , her breakthrough performance was in Black Sunday ( 1960 ) , where she played the dual role of Asa and Princess Katia Vajda . Additionally , Steele had supporting parts in Federico Fellini 's 8½ ( 1963 ) , and appeared on television in the 1991 miniseries Dark Shadows . Steele has appeared in several films in the 2010s , including a lead role in The Butterfly Room ( 2012 ) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling 's Lost River ( 2014 ) .
The Shadow of the Cat is a 1961 British horror film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions . It stars André Morell and Barbara Shelley . It was photographed in black-and-white by Arthur Grant . The story is about Tabitha , the house cat of a wealthy lady , who witnesses the murder of her owner by her owner 's husband and two servants . The cat becomes bent on revenge while the murderers try to kill her , the only witness .
John Gilling ( 29 May 1912 - 22 November 1984 ) was an English film director and screenwriter , born in London . He was chiefly known for his horror movies , especially those he made for Hammer Films , for whom he directed The Shadow of the Cat ( 1961 ) , The Plague of the Zombies ( 1966 ) , The Reptile ( 1966 ) and The Mummy 's Shroud ( 1967 ) , among others .
Cecil André Mesritz ( 20 August 1909 - 28 November 1978 ) , known professionally as André Morell , was an English actor . He appeared frequently in theatre , film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s . His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958-59 ) , and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1959 ) . He also appeared in the films The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) , in several of Hammer 's horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars ( 1968 ) . His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing a commanding presence with a rich , responsive voice… whether in the classical or modern theatre he was authoritative and dependable .
Barbara Shelley ( born Barbara T. Kowin ; 13 February 1932 ) is a retired English film and television actress . She was at her busiest in the late 1950s ( Blood of the Vampire ) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror 's No . 1 female star , with The Gorgon ( 1964 ) , Dracula , Prince of Darkness ( 1966 ) , Rasputin , the Mad Monk ( 1966 ) , and Quatermass and the Pit ( 1967 ) among her credits . She also appeared in Village of the Damned ( 1960 ) . Although she is known as a scream queen , her most famous scream ( in the aforementioned Dracula film ) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer . Her television appearances include the very first Danger Man episode , 'View From A Villa ' ( 1960 ) , plus a subsequent episode that season , 'The Traitor ' ( also 1960 ) ; The Saint ( TV series ) ( 1962 ) , two episodes of 12 O'Clock High ( 1965 and 1966 ) ; The Avengers episodes 'Dragonsfield ' ( 1961 ) and 'From Venus With Love ' ( 1967 ) ; the TV miniseries Prince Regent ( 1979 ) ; The Borgias ( 1981 ) ; the Blake 's 7 episode 'Stardrive ' ( 1981 ) ; the Crown Court episode 'Proof Spirits ' ( 1981 ) , and the Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire ( 1984 ) . In 2010 , writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror .
William Thomas Clucas ( 14 April 1925 - 8 July 2016 ) , better known as William Lucas , was an English film , theatre , radio and television actor .
Werewolf in a Girls ' Dormitory ( Italian : Lycanthropus ) is a 1961 Italian horror film directed by Paolo Heusch .
Paolo Heusch ( 26 February 1924 - 16 October 1982 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . He directed ten films between 1958 and 1970 .
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass ( 1 June 1940 - 6 March 1995 ) was a Polish actress .
Curt Lowens ( 17 November 1925 - 8 May 2017 ) was an actor of the stage and in feature films and television , as well as a Holocaust survivor and a rescuer who saved about 150 Jewish children during the Holocaust .