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Jimmy Sangster
Discussing his script for Intent to Kill (1958)
Born	James Henry Kinmel Sangster[1] (1927-12-02)2 December 1927 Kinmel Bay, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Died	19 August 2011(2011-08-19) (aged 83) London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1955–2000
Spouse(s)	Monica Hustler (1950–1968) (divorced) (1 child) Mary Peach (?-2011) (his death) (1 child)[1]
Children	Mark James Sangster

James Henry Kinmel Sangster (2 December 1927 – 19 August 2011) was a British screenwriter and director, most famous for his work on the initial horror movies made by the British company Hammer Films, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958).^[2]

Career

Sangster originally worked as a production assistant at Hammer Films, as well as being an assistant director, second unit director and production manager. After Hammer's success with The Quatermass Xperiment, he was approached to write X the Unknown, to which he replied "I'm not a writer. I'm a production manager." According to him, Hammer Films' response was: "Well, you come up with a couple of ideas and if we like it, we'll pay you. If we don't like it, we won't pay you. You're being paid as a production manager, so you can't complain."^[3] Sangster later turned to direction with The Horror of Frankenstein and Lust for a Vampire (both 1970) for the studio, but with far less success. His third (and last) film as director was 1972's Fear in the Night, which resurrected the psychological woman-in-peril thriller he had begun with his script for Taste of Fear in 1961. All three of the films he directed featured actor Ralph Bates, a friend of Sangster’s and one of Hammer's better-known performers for the company during the 1970s.

Sangster scripted and produced two films for Bette Davis, The Nanny (1965) and The Anniversary (1968). His other scriptwriting credits included The Siege of Sidney Street (1960), which starred Donald Sinden and in which Sangster appeared as Winston Churchill. His many television screenwriting credits include Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Movin' On, The Magician, BJ and the Bear, Most Wanted, Ironside, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Wonder Woman

He is also the author of several books, including the novels Foreign Exchange, Private I, Touchfeather (republished in 2018 by Brash Books), Touchfeather Too, (republished in 2018 by Brash Books), Snowball, Hardball, Blackball, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Peddler, and the non-fiction memoir Do You Want it Good or Tuesday?

In 2003, he published a screenwriting manual, Screenwriting: Techniques for Success.^[4]

Personal life

Sangster died on 19 August 2011, and was survived by his third wife, the actress Mary Peach; a son from an earlier marriage, Mark James Sangster;^[2] and two grandchildren, Claire and Ian Sangster.

Filmography

As a director

As a screenwriter

References

External links

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  Jimmy Sangster on IMDb


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  Jimmy Sangster at Find a Grave
  


• Jimmy Sangster at CinemaRetro.com

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