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Peter Sasdy
Born	(1935-05-27) May 27, 1935 (age 89) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	British
Occupation	Director

Peter Sasdy (born 27 May 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is a British film and television director.^[1]

In addition to his numerous TV credits, notable among which is the Nigel Kneale-scripted The Stone Tape (1972), he directed several horror films for Hammer, including Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Countess Dracula (1971) and Hands of the Ripper (1971).^[2]

Sasdy directed the 1960s TV series Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Spoils of Poynton for BBC TV. He also directed several early episodes of the hit TV series Minder, and earned a Razzie Award for his direction of the 1983 film The Lonely Lady.

He directed three different adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories: The Illustrious Client, the first episode of the 1965 BBC series starring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel StockasDr. Watson; one episode (The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff) of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson from 1979-1980, starring Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering; and the 1991 TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, starring Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee.

Sasdy directed Welcome to Blood City for Warner Bros., perhaps the first cinema release movie in the "virtual-reality" genre.

From 1985 to 1987, he directed the Thames Television production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3⁄4. He also produced and directed Kingsley Amis's Ending Up for Thames TV, which starred John Mills, Wendy Hiller and Michael Hordern.

References[edit]

^ Hutchings, Peter (2017). Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 283. ISBN 9781538102442. Retrieved 8 April 2018.

^ Pirie, David, "New Blood", in Sight & Sound, volume 40, issue 2 (Spring 1971): 73.

External links[edit]

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Films directed by Peter Sasdy

Journey into Darkness (1969)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Countess Dracula (1971)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Doomwatch (1972)
Nothing but the Night (1973)
I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
The Lonely Lady (1983)
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
1980s	Robert Greenwald – Xanadu (1980) Michael Cimino – Heaven's Gate (1981) Ken Annakin – The Pirate Movie / Terence Young – Inchon (1982) Peter Sasdy – The Lonely Lady (1983) John Derek – Bolero (1984) Sylvester Stallone – Rocky IV (1985) Prince – Under the Cherry Moon (1986) Norman Mailer – Tough Guys Don't Dance / Elaine May – Ishtar (1987) Blake Edwards – Sunset / Stewart Raffill – Mac and Me (1988) William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
1990s	John Derek – Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) Michael Lehmann – Hudson Hawk (1991) David Seltzer – Shining Through (1992) Jennifer Lynch – Boxing Helena (1993) Steven Seagal – On Deadly Ground (1994) Paul Verhoeven – Showgirls (1995) Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996) Kevin Costner – The Postman (1997) Gus Van Sant – Psycho (1998) Barry Sonnenfeld – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s	Roger Christian – Battlefield Earth (2000) Tom Green – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Guy Ritchie – Swept Away (2002) Martin Brest – Gigli (2003) Pitof – Catwoman (2004) John Asher – Dirty Love (2005) M. Night Shyamalan – Lady in the Water (2006) Chris Sivertson – I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Uwe Boll – In the Name of the King, Postal, and Tunnel Rats (2008) Michael Bay – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
2010s	M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010) Dennis Dugan – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011) Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken – Movie 43 (2013) Michael Bay – Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Josh Trank – Fantastic Four (2015) Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie (2017) Etan Cohen – Holmes & Watson (2018) Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s	Sia – Music (2020/21) Christopher Ashley – Diana the Musical (2021) Colson Baker and Mod Sun – Good Mourning (2022) Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

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