Peter Sasdy

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Peter Sasdy
Born (1935-05-27) May 27, 1935 (age 90)
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityBritish
Occupation Director

Peter Sasdy (born 27 May 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is a British film and television director. [1] In addition to his numerous TV credits, notable among which is the Nigel Kneale-scripted The Stone Tape (1972), he directed several horror films for Hammer, including Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Countess Dracula (1971) and Hands of the Ripper (1971). [2] Sasdy directed the 1960s TV series Wuthering Heights , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Spoils of Poynton for BBC TV. He also directed several early episodes of the hit TV series Minder , and earned a Razzie Award for his direction of the 1983 film The Lonely Lady .

He directed three adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories: The Illustrious Client, the first episode of the 1965 BBC series starring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson; one episode (The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff) of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson from 1979–1980, starring Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering; and the 1991 TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady , starring Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee. Sasdy directed Welcome to Blood City for Warner Bros., perhaps the first cinema release movie in the "virtual-reality" genre. From 1985 to 1987, he directed the Thames Television production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3⁄4 . He also produced and directed Kingsley Amis's Ending Up for Thames TV, which starred John Mills, Wendy Hiller and Michael Hordern.

References

  1. ↑ Hutchings, Peter (2017). Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 283. ISBN   9781538102442 . Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Pirie, David, "New Blood", in Sight & Sound , volume 40, issue 2 (Spring 1971): 73.


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