Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper

January 27, 1913 · 113 years old

Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 - 28 June 2000) was an English character actor, fondly remembered for his many roles in the Hammer horror films.

Known For

33 titles
1
The Mummy

The Mummy

1959 · 1h 28m · Movie

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

6.6
2
The Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula

1960 · 1h 25m · Movie

Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.

6.6
3
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1968 · 1h 32m · Movie

After a Monsignor accidentally brings Count Dracula back from the dead while exorcising his castle, the vampire preys on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends.

6.5
4
The Revenge of Frankenstein

The Revenge of Frankenstein

1958 · 1h 30m · Movie

Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.

6.7
5
Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula

1970 · 1h 31m · Movie

After killing his disciple, three English gentlemen unwittingly resurrect Count Dracula, who seeks to avenge his servant by making the trio die by the hands of their own children.

6.3
6
The Curse of the Werewolf

The Curse of the Werewolf

1961 · 1h 33m · Movie

In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.

6.5
7
Scars of Dracula

Scars of Dracula

1970 · 1h 35m · Movie

A young man is murdered while spending the night at Count Dracula's castle, prompting his brother to come to the small town where all the traces end to look for him.

6.0
8
The Plague of the Zombies

The Plague of the Zombies

1966 · 1h 30m · Movie

During a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.

6.6
9
Richard III

Richard III

1955 · 2h 41m · Movie

A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

7.3
10
Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

1957 · 1h 25m · Movie

Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.

6.8
11
1984

1984

1956 · 1h 30m · Movie

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

6.9
12
The Creeping Flesh

The Creeping Flesh

1973 · 1h 32m · Movie

A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist's f...

6.1
13
The Reptile

The Reptile

1966 · 1h 30m · Movie

In a Cornish village, various locals die from mysterious snake bites, but the coroner rules the deaths as heart attacks, until a family of newcomers starts an investigation.

6.1
14
Night Creatures

Night Creatures

1962 · 1h 22m · Movie

In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in a coastal town where locals believe in Marsh Phantoms.

6.6
15
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

1964 · 1h 21m · Movie

British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all those who disturbed its tomb.

5.6
16
Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Clouseau

1968 · 1h 36m · Movie

A string of robberies has occurred in Britain and it's up to Inspector Clouseau to catch the criminal.

4.7
17
Torture Garden

Torture Garden

1967 · 1h 33m · Movie

An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.

6.1
18
X the Unknown

X the Unknown

1956 · 1h 21m · Movie

A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.

6.1
19
The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

1959 · 1h 23m · Movie

A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.

6.3
20
The Mummy's Shroud

The Mummy's Shroud

1967 · 1h 30m · Movie

In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. Returning home with their discovery, the expedition members soon find themselves being killed off by a mummy, which can be revived by rea...

5.5
21
The Deadly Bees

The Deadly Bees

1966 · 1h 24m · Movie

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner raises deadly bees.

4.2
22
Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night

1956 · 1h 39m · Movie

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

7.1
23
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957 · 1h 26m · Movie

The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.

6.4
24
The Pirates of Blood River

The Pirates of Blood River

1962 · 1h 27m · Movie

A group of ruthless pirates attack a seventeenth century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

6.0
25
The Devil-Ship Pirates

The Devil-Ship Pirates

1964 · 1h 26m · Movie

A damaged privateer deserts the Spanish Armada and makes land for repairs near a village on the British coast, terrorizing the local inhabitants.

6.1
26
Raiders in the Sky

Raiders in the Sky

1953 · 1h 36m · Movie

War drama about the dangerous and stressful work of Lancaster bomber British crews during World War II.

6.5
27
No Sex Please - We're British

No Sex Please - We're British

1973 · 1h 31m · Movie

A mistaken address causes a newlywed couple's apartment to fill up with mail-order Swiss porn... right before a visit by the wife's father, a bank president who happens to be the husband's new employer. From the Broadway play.

5.4
28
The Crimson Blade

The Crimson Blade

1963 · 1h 23m · Movie

In 1648, during the English Civil War, Captain Sylvester switches sides between the Parliamentary and Royalist camps as his interests dictate, while King Charles I is on the run from Oliver Cromwell's troops.

5.6
29
Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan

1953 · 1h 49m · Movie

The Victorian-era theatrical partnership of English librettist William S. Gilbert and English composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas to great public acclaim, yet they clashed on both personal and creative levels.

6.9
30
The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling

1959 · 1h 24m · Movie

Henry Jeckle was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed...

5.6
31
What a Crazy World

What a Crazy World

1963 · 1h 28m · Movie

An aspiring musician from London's East End pursues his dreams while navigating a rocky romance.

5.8
32
The Rainbow Jacket

The Rainbow Jacket

1954 · 1h 39m · Movie

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

6.4
33
Three Stops to Murder

Three Stops to Murder

1953 · 1h 16m · Movie

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.

5.2