Don Sharp
Film director
1921 – 2011
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Who was Don Sharp?
Donald Herman "Don" Sharp was an Australian-born British film director.
His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the 1960s, and included The Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin, the Mad Monk. Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, here played by Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the first sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu. In the 1980s he was also responsible for several hugely popular miniseries adapted from the novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford.
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- Born
- Apr 19, 1921
Hobart - Also known as
- Donald Herman "Don" Sharp
- Donald Herman Sharp
- Donald Sharp
- Spouses
- Gwenda Wilson
- Mary Steele
(1956 - 2011/12/14)
- Children
- Ethnicity
- British people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- St Virgil's College
- Died
- Dec 14, 2011
Cornwall
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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