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name: "Don Sharp"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 April 1922"
died: "18 December 2011"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:15:39.626933+00:00"
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# Don Sharp

Director. Born 19 April 1922 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Died 18 December 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 April 1922, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- **Died:** 18 December 2011
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q747522, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789033/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101528

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Avengers*](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md) (83)

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## Biography

Don Sharp was an Australian-born film and television director. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he began his career as an actor in Australia before moving to Britain after the Second World War, where he worked as an actor and screenwriter before turning to directing in the mid-1950s.

He directed children's films for the Children's Film Foundation and later became known for his work with Hammer Films in the 1960s, including *The Kiss of the Vampire* (1963), *The Devil-Ship Pirates* (1964) and *Rasputin the Mad Monk* (1966). He also directed episodes of the television series *The Avengers* and films such as *The Face of Fu Manchu* (1965) and *The Thirty-Nine Steps* (1978).

Sharp continued directing into the 1980s, including television miniseries, and died in 2011.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, historyproject.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Avengers* (1961), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-avengers-1961.md)

## Also known for

- *The Kiss of the Vampire* (1963), Director
- *Curse of the Fly* (1965), Director
- *Rasputin: The Mad Monk* (1966), Director
- *Psychomania* (1973), Director
- *Hammer House of Horror* (1980), Director
- *Bear Island* (1979), Director, Screenplay
- *The Face of Fu Manchu* (1965), Director
- *The Thirty Nine Steps* (1978), Director

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