#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: VAMPIRE GIRL AND SCARS OF DRACULA

#HAMMERFILMSATURDAY: CHRISTOPHER LEE in a scene that resembles the Harker - Vampire Woman - Dracula set up in Hammer films first outing in 1958, with the 'HORROR OF DRACULA' Now, it's the beautiful actress Anouska Hempel and Christopher Matthews in SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: Requested Photographs for Aaron D. Haynes . . Christopher Lee in his fifth Hammer #DRACULA film, Scars of Dracula (1970). Maybe the weakest story, but certainly the most profitable Hammer film for Lee personally, who enjoyed a percentage from the world wide box office takings!! 

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY : Above two of the young stars from #SCARSOFDRACULA. Denis Waterman and Jenny Hanley as not only the 'love interest' in the film, but also the 'vampire killer' and...BAT BAIT! Maybe not the actors finest hours, Waterman along with his fellow cast member Christopher Matthews, were though by critics to have been miscast, and Hanley was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl. . Actor John Forbes- Robertson was considered to play the title role of the Count, when Lee dug in his heels and refused to return... only then to do a complete U -turn, and play Dracula for Hammer, one more time...Photographs REQUESTED by Daniel Miller and  Cheryl Hubbard.

ACTOR GEORGE COLE DIES 1925 - 2015

I am very sad to hear today that the wonderfully gifted actor and perfect gentleman, George Cole has died. George Edward Cole OBE had career that spanned more than 70 years in show business. George lived a very full life that started when he was given up for adoption at just ten days old, as a youth he worked himself up from working as a butcher boy aged 10....to finally becoming one of one of our most loved actors... on the cinema screen and popular TV.

At 15 he was cast in the film Cottage to Let (1941) where he starred opposite Scottish actor Alastair Sim. Sim liked Cole, and agreed with his family to take in Cole and his adoptive mother to their home. Acting as his mentor, Sim helped Cole lose his Cockney accent and he stayed with the Sim family until he was 27. Cole later attributed his career success to Sim, with whom he appeared in a total of 11 films. Cole really became familiar to audiences in British comedy films in the 1950s, when appeared with Sim in Scrooge (as the young Scrooge) in 1951.

George Cole as the loveable rogue 'Flash Harry' and Alistair Sim as Headmistress in  The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)

But for many he will be remembered "Flash Harry" in the St Trinian's films (two of which also star Sim) and as the crooked used-car dealer Arthur Daley in the Thames Television series Minder, in which he played from 1979 until the show's conclusion in 1994.

We remember George here today also for his role as Roger Morton with Peter Cushing in Hammer films, 'The Vampire Lovers', starring also Ingrid Pitt. I have always thought it was an odd piece of casting, but was glad to see him there, none the less. God Bless, George. Sleep Well.

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