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scratch that Christopher Lee inflicts on himself to seduce Suzan Farmer. Even his death scene is reworked so that no blood is spilled and it seems as if Hammer were really focused on trying to keep the censor at bay by conspicuously omitting the fabled Kensington gore!
    Many of the cast had further association with Hammer horror movies. Francis Matthews had appeared in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958 ) as Dr Hans kleve and, with Barbara Shelley, Suzan Farmer and Christopher Lee, would go on to star in Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1965), shot back-to-back with this movie. On Television, he is possibly best remembered as BBCs amateur private detective Paul Temple (1969 – 1971) and the voice of Gerry Anderson’s hero Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968).
    Barbara Shelley would also star in Rasputin, the Mad Monk. She had previously been seen in the savage prisoner of war films The Camp on Blood Island (1958) and the sequel The Secret of Blood Island (1964). She starred in The Gorgon (1964)) as the doomed Carla. In 1967 she partnered with Andrew keir in Quatermass and the Pit. Other genre films include Blood of the Vampire (1957) and Shadow of the Cat (1961). She also starred in TV and appeared in the first episode of Danger Man/”View From A Villa” (1960) with Patrick McGoohan. Now retired, she still attends horror conventions in the UK and was seen in the BBC series on British horror A History of Horror (2010). Her scream in Dracula, Prince of Darkness was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer.
    Decorative Suzan Farmer played the object of Rasputin’s lust and she turned up in many television roles of the 1960s and the 1970s such as The Saint with Roger Moore and Man in a Suitcase with Richard Bradford. In 1965 she married the actor Ian Mcshane, which lasted until 1968. Dracula, Prince of Darkness and Rasputin, the Mad Monk feature her most high profile theatrical film roles.
    Australian actor Charles Tingwell known as “Bud”, is best remembered by this author for his role as Inspector Craddock in the four comedy streamlined Miss Marple movies starring Dame Margaret Rutherford, but he  had a very distinguished acting career in Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK, with over a hundred films to his credit. After his war service begun in 1941 with the Royal Australian Air Force, he returned home in 1946, an experienced pilot of many aircraft, and married his childhood sweetheart. In 2004, he published a memoir, Bud, A Life and made a website that attracted 500 followers in the first week. He was awarded the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 1999 and inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Australian Film Walk of Fame in 2008. He died on 15 th May, 2009 of prostate cancer aged 86 and was given a State Funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral.
    Andrew Keir was another regular character actor at Hammer. He was born in Shotts, North Lanarkshire Scotland as Andrew Buggy the son of a coal miner. Following in his father’s footsteps, he went down the mines and began acting purely by accident. Meeting a friend at the Miner’s Welfare Hall, a member of the local Am Dram group had failed to show for the performance and Keir took on the role, a small part as a farmer, but it was enough to give him the bug. He became a regular performer with the company. When he was given the opportunity to go professional at the Unity theatre in Glasgow, he found that as a coal miner at the beginning of World War 2, his job couldn’t be discarded so easily without a doctor’s note diagnosing pneumoconiosis. He obtained the necessary certificate and never looked back. After four years on the boards, he made his film debut in Hammer’s The Lady Craved Excitement (1950). His first major film role was in The Brave Don’t Cry (1952) as Charlie Ross about the September 1950 Knockshinnoch disaster when 129 men were trapped by a landslide. His most prominent role, and personal favourite, was his