Question: When was the great plague of the city where The Steel Bayonet producer died?

Michael Carreras (21 December 1927, in London – 19 April 1994, in London) was a British film producer and director. He was known for his association with Hammer Studios, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years. <SEP> the first european epidemic of the bubonic plague dates back to the mid 6th century and is called the plague of justinian. the largest plague epidemic was the black death in europe in the 14th century. in medieval times, the large loss of people (due to the bubonic plague) in a town created an economic disaster. community plague doctors were quite valuable and were given special privileges; for example, plague doctors were freely allowed to perform autopsies, which were otherwise generally forbidden in medieval europe, to research a cure for the plague.in some cases, plague doctors were so valuable that when barcelona dispatched two to tortosa in 1650, outlaws captured them en route and demanded a ransom. the city of barcelona paid for their release. the city of orvieto hired matteo fu angelo in 1348 for four times the normal rate of a doctor of 50-florin per year. pope clement vi hired several extra plague doctors during the black death plague. they were to attend to the sick people of avignon. of 18 doctors in venice, only one was left by 1348: five had died of the plague, and 12 were missing and may have fled. <SEP> Michael Caine also had a small role in the film, early in his career. It is set during the Second World War, in the Tunisian desert when a small British observation force are surrounded in a farm by overwhelming forces of the German Afrika Korps. Filming took place on Salisbury Plain, which doubled for North Africa. The Steel Bayonet is a 1957 British war film directed by Michael Carreras and starring Leo Genn, Kieron Moore and Michael Medwin. <SEP> in 1466, perhaps 40,000 people died of the plague in paris. during the 16th and 17th centuries, the plague was present in paris around 30 per cent of the time. the black death ravaged europe for three years before it continued on into russia, where the disease was present somewhere in the country 25 times between 1350 to 1490. plague epidemics ravaged london in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636, and 1665, reducing its population by 10 to 30% during those years. over 10% of amsterdam's population died in 1623–25, and again in 1635–36, 1655, and 1664. plague occurred in venice 22 times between 1361 and 1528. the plague of 1576–77 killed 50,000 in venice, almost a third of the population. late outbreaks in central europe included the italian plague of 1629–1631, which is associated with troop movements during the thirty years' war, and the great plague of vienna in 1679. over 60% of norway's population died in 1348–50. the last plague outbreak ravaged oslo in 1654. <SEP> In England, in the absence of census figures, historians propose a range of preincident population figures from as high as 7 million to as low as 4 million in 1300, and a postincident population figure as low as 2 million. By the end of 1350, the Black Death subsided, but it never really died out in England. Over the next few hundred years, further outbreaks occurred in 1361–62, 1369, 1379–83, 1389–93, and throughout the first half of the 15th century. The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636, and ended with the Great Plague of London in 1665. An outbreak in 1471 took as much as 10–15% of the population, while the death rate of the plague of 1479–80 could have been as high as 20%.