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Terence Fisher
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Director, Editor Born: February 23, 1904 in London, England, UK Death: June 18, 1980 in London, England, UK Biography:Born in London and educated in Sussex, Terence Fisher served an apprenticeship in the merchant marine and as a junior officer for the P & O Lines. He worked briefly as a department-store window dresser, then joined Shepherd's Bush Studios as a clapper boy in 1930. Within six years, he graduated to film editor; 12 years later, he directed his first feature for the Rank Organisation, "A Song for Tomorrow" (1948). Fisher concentrated on romantic dramas until he joined Hammer Films in 1952, where he forged his reputation as a prime purveyor of low-budget, high-grossing horror pictures. Not all of Fisher's scare flicks were masterpieces, to be sure, but even non-fans of the genre have raised their hats to such stylish efforts as "Horror of Dracula" (1958), "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "The Mummy" (1959), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959), "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" (1960) and "The Devil Rides... Full Biography
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