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The Flesh and the Fiends

Year:

1960

Duration:

97 min | USA:91 min (uncut version)

Genres:

Horror

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

John Gilling

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1960-11-04

Filming Locations: Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Donald Pleasence

The Flesh and the Fiends

Peter Cushing

Dr. Robert Knox

June Laverick

Martha Knox

George Rose

William Burke

Renee Houston

Helen Burke

Dermot Walsh

Dr. Geoffrey Mitchell

Billie Whitelaw

Mary Patterson

John Cairney

Chris Jackson

Melvyn Hayes

Daft Jamie

June Powell

Maggie O'Hara

Andrew Faulds

Inspector McCulloch

Philip Leaver

Dr. Elliott

George Woodbridge

Dr. Ferguson

Garard Green

Dr. Andrews

Esma Cannon

Aggie

Geoffrey Tyrrell

Old Davey

George Bishop

Blind Man

Beckett Bould

Old Angus (as Becket Bould)

George Street

Publican

Michael Balfour

Drunken Sailor

Stephen Scott

Grave Robber

Raf De La Torre

Grave Robber

Steven Berkoff

Medical Student (uncredited)

Golda Casimir

Gypsy (uncredited)

Robert Checksfield

Student (uncredited)

Paul Craig

Student (uncredited)

Glyn Dearman

Student (uncredited)

Gilda Emmanuelli

Jennie (uncredited)

Moris Farhi

Stallholder (uncredited)

Janice Field

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Norman Fisher

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Ian Fleming

Priest (uncredited)

Eric Francis

Clerk of the Court (uncredited)

Lucy Griffiths

Crone (uncredited)

Dorothy Grumbar

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Frank Henderson

Artist (uncredited)

Robert Hunter

Artist's Friend (uncredited)

Olive Kirby

Maid (uncredited)

Vivienne Lacey

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Ann Lancaster

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Jack McNaughton

Stallholder (uncredited)

Vernon Morris

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

Michael Mulcaster

Undertaker (uncredited)

Sylvia Osborne

Blowsy Woman (uncredited)

Gordon Phillott

Nightwatchman (uncredited)

John Rae

Reverend Lincoln (uncredited)

John Murray Scott

Student (uncredited)

Charles Stanley

Town Crier (uncredited)

Marita Stanton

Barmaid (uncredited)

Peter Stephens

McBain (uncredited)

Graham Stuart

Smedley (uncredited)

Hazel Sutton

Blonde (uncredited)

Anthony Valentine

Student (uncredited)

Don Vernon

Minuet Dancer (uncredited)

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Trivia

This film is an adaptation of the story of real-life killers William Burke and William Hare who, around 1827 in Edinburgh, Scotland, did provide more than a dozen "fresh" corpses to the anatomist Dr. Knox.