James Carreras

Sir James Carreras MBE (30 January 1909^[1]–1990) was a British film producer, who, together with William Hinds, founded the legendary British film company Hammer Film Productions.

Biography

Hinds managed the Oxford cinema Manchester before entering the distribution side of the film industry in 1934, when he joined Exclusive Films, formed by his father Enrique and William Hinds.^[1] During World War II Carreras saw combat and rose to Lieutenant-Colonel.^[1] In 1946 he returned as managing director of Exclusive Films, where he co-produced Who Killed Van Loon? (1947).

From 1949 to 1980 he was chairman of Hammer Film Productions. He oversaw the growth of the privately owned company into the most successful British film company in the world.^[1]

In 1944 he received an MBE. He was knighted in 1970. His son was the film director and producer Michael Carreras.^[1]

Filmography

1948

• River Patrol (director, Ben R. Hart)
• Dick Barton: Special Agent (director, Alfred J. Goulding) aka Dick Barton, Detective (US)

1949

• Dick Barton Strikes Back (director, Godfrey Grayson)
• Dr. Morelle — the Case of the Missing Heiress (Grayson)
• The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (Grayson)
• Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora (Francis Searle)
• Meet Simon Cherry (Grayson)
• Man in Black (Searle)

1950

• Someone at the Door (Searle)
• The Lady Craved Excitement (Grayson and Searle)
• What the Butler Saw (Grayson)
• Room to Let (Grayson)
• Dick Barton at Bay (Grayson)

1951

• Cloudburst (Searle)
• The Rossiter Case (Searle)
• To Have and to Hold (Grayson)
• The Dark Light (Vernon Sewell)
• A Case for PC 49 (Searle)
• The Black Widow (Sewell)

1952

• Death of an Angel (Charles Saunders)
• Whispering Smith Hits London (Searle) aka Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (US)
• The Last Page (Terence Fisher) aka Man Bait (US)
• Wings of Danger (Fisher)
• Never Look Back (Searle)
• Stolen Face (Fisher)
• Lady in the Fog (Sam Newfield) aka Scotland Yard Inspector (US)
• The Gambler and the Lady (Patrick Jenkins and Fisher)

1953

• The Flanagan Boy (Reginald Le Borg) aka Bad Blonde (US)
• Four Sided Triangle (Fisher)
• Spaceways (Fisher)
• Blood Orange (Fisher) aka Three Stops to Murder (US)
• Mantrap (Fisher) aka Man in Hiding (US)
• The Saint's Return (Seymour Friedman) aka The Saint's Girl Friday (US)
• 36 Hours (Montgomery Tully) aka Terror Street (US)

1954

• Face the Music (Fisher) aka The Black Glove (US)
• Murder by Proxy (Fisher) aka Blackout (US)
• The House Across the Lake (Ken Hughes) aka Heat Wave (US)
• Life with The Lyons (Val Guest) aka Family Affair (US)
• Five Days (Tully) aka Paid to Kill (US)
• A Stranger Came Home (Fisher) aka The Unholy Four (US)
• Third Party Risk (Daniel Birt) aka Deadly Game (US)
• The Men of Sherwood Forest (Guest)
• Mask of Dust (Fisher) aka A Race for Life (US)

1955

• The Lyons in Paris (Guest) aka The Lyons Abroad (US)
• Break in the Circle (Guest)
• The Glass Cage (Tully) aka The Glass Tomb (US)
• The Quatermass Xperiment (Guest) aka The Creeping Unknown (US)
• Cyril Stapleton and the Show Band (Michael Carreras) short
• The Eric Winstone Band Show (Michael Carreras) short
• The Right Person (Peter Cotes) short

1956

• Women Without Men (Elmo Williams)
• X the Unknown (Leslie Norman)
• A Man on the Beach (Joseph Losey) short
• Just for You (Michael Carreras) short
• Parade of the Bands (Michael Carreras) short
• Eric Winstone's Stagecoach (Michael Carreras) short
• Copenhagen (Michael Carreras) short
• Dick Turpin: Highwayman (David Paltenghi) short

1957

• The Steel Bayonet (Michael Carreras)
• The Curse of Frankenstein (Fisher)
• Quatermass 2 (Guest) aka Enemy from Space (US)
• The Abominable Snowman (Guest)
• The Edmundo Ross Half Hour (Michael Carreras) short
• A Day of Grace (Searle) short
• Man with a Dog (Leslie Arliss) short

1958

• The Camp on Blood Island (Guest)
• Dracula (Fisher) aka Horror of Dracula (US)
• The Revenge of Frankenstein (Fisher)
• The Snorkel (Guy Green)
• Further Up the Creek (Guest)
• A Clean Sweep (Maclean Rogers)
• I Only Arsked! (Tully)

1959

• Ten Seconds to Hell (Robert Aldrich)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Fisher)
• Yesterday's Enemy (Guest)
• The Ugly Duckling (Lance Comfort)
• The Mummy (Fisher)
• The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Fisher)
• Don't Panic Chaps! (George Pollock)
• Danger List (Arliss) short
• Operation Universe (Peter Bryan) short

1960

• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (Cyril Frankel)
• Hell Is a City (Guest)
• The Stranglers of Bombay (Fisher)
• The Brides of Dracula (Fisher)
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Fisher) aka House of Fright (US)
• The Full Treatment (Guest) aka Stop Me Before I Kill (US)
• Sword of Sherwood Forest (Fisher)

1961

• Visa to Canton (Michael Carreras) aka Passport to China (US)
• The Terror of the Tongs (Anthony Bushell) aka Terror of the Hatchet Men (US)
• A Weekend with Lulu (John Paddy Carstairs)
• Taste of Fear (Seth Holt) aka Scream of Fear (US)
• The Curse of the Werewolf (Fisher)
• Watch it, Sailor! (Wolf Rilla)
• Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)

1962

• The Phantom of the Opera (Fisher)
• Captain Clegg (Peter Graham Scott) aka Night Creatures (US)
• The Pirates of Blood River (John Gilling)

1963

• The Damned (Losey) aka These Are the Damned (US)
• Maniac (Michael Carreras) aka The Maniac (poster title)
• Paranoiac (Freddie Francis)
• The Evil of Frankenstein (Francis)
• The Scarlet Blade (Gilling) aka The Crimson Blade (US)
• The Old Dark House (William Castle)
• The Kiss of the Vampire (Don Sharp)

1964

• Nightmare (Francis)
• The Devil-Ship Pirates (Sharp)
• The Gorgon (Fisher)
• The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Michael Carreras)
• The Secret of Blood Island (Lawrence)

1965

• Fanatic (Silvio Narizzano) aka Die! Die! My Darling! (US)
• She (Robert Day)
• Hysteria (Francis)
• The Brigand of Kandahar (Gilling)
• The Nanny (Holt)

1966

• Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Fisher)
• The Plague of the Zombies (Gilling)
• Rasputin, the Mad Monk (Sharp)
• The Reptile (Gilling)
• The Witches (Frankel) aka The Devil's Own (US)
• One Million Years B.C. (Don Chaffey)

1967

• Slave Girls (Michael Carreras) aka Prehistoric Women (US)
• The Viking Queen (Chaffey)
• Frankenstein Created Woman (Fisher)
• The Mummy's Shroud (Gilling)
• A Challenge for Robin Hood (C.M. Pennington-Richards)
• Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker) aka Five Million Years to Earth (US)

1968

• The Anniversary (Baker)
• The Vengeance of She (Cliff Owen)
• The Devil Rides Out (Fisher) aka The Devil's Bride (US)
• The Lost Continent (Michael Carreras)
• Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (Francis)

1969

• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Fisher)
• Moon Zero Two (Baker)

1970

• Taste the Blood of Dracula (Peter Sasdy)
• Crescendo (Alan Gibson)
• The Vampire Lovers (Baker)
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Guest)
• The Horror of Frankenstein (Jimmy Sangster)
• Scars of Dracula (Baker)

1971

• Lust for a Vampire (Sangster)
• Countess Dracula (Sasdy)
• Creatures the World Forgot (Chaffey)
• On the Buses (Harry Booth)
• Hands of the Ripper (Sasdy)
• Twins of Evil (John Hough)
• Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (Baker)
• Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (Holt and Michael Carreras)

1972

• Vampire Circus (Robert Young)
• Mutiny on the Buses (Booth)
• Fear in the Night (Sangster)
• Straight on Till Morning (Peter Collinson)
• Dracula A.D. 1972 (Gibson)
• Demons of the Mind (Peter Sykes)

References

1. "Carreras, Sir James (1909–1990) Biography". BFI Screenonline. 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2016.

External links

• James Carreras at the Internet Movie Database