Gordon Hessler (born December 30, 1930 in Berlin, Germany) is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A television director directs the activities involved in making a Television Episode. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies.
Hessler began as a story editor for two seasons (1960 - 1962) on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series, then served as the show's associate producer from 1962 until its cancellation in 1965. Story editor is a job title in television series production A story editor is a member of the production team of scripted television series usually dramas and comedies Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an Anthology Television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. He directed episodes of that series and several other shows (including Hawaii 5-0). Hawaii Five-O is an American Television series that starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur as detectives for a fictional Hawaii
In 1969, he directed his debut feature film, The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price. The Oblong Box is a 1969 British Horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Vincent Leonard Price Jr ( May 27 1911 &ndash October 25 1993) was an American Film Actor, remembered It was the first of three horror films Hessler would direct with the veteran horror star. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers Hessler's other films include The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and The Girl in the Swing (1988) starring Meg Tilly, a critically acclaimed adaptation of Richard Adams's ghost story novel. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a Fantasy film released in 1974 and starring John Phillip Law as Sinbad. Meg Tilly (born February 14 1960) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actress, Broadway stage Dancer and Richard George Adams (born May 9, 1920) is an English Novelist who is best known as the writer of three novels featuring animal characters A ghost story may be any piece of Fiction, or Drama, that includes a Ghost, or simply takes as a Premise the possibility of ghosts or the belief A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story The majority of Hessler's directorial work from the late-1970s to date has been in television.