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| name          = Peter Sasdy
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1935|05|27}}
| birth_place   = [[Budapest]], Hungary
| other_names   =
| occupation    = [[Film director|Director]]
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'''Peter Sasdy''' (born 27 May 1935 in [[Budapest]], Hungary) is a British film and television director.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hutchings |first=Peter |title=Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uak7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |date=2017 |page=283 |access-date=8 April 2018 |isbn=9781538102442}}</ref> 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 Film Productions|Hammer]], including ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula]]'' (1970), ''[[Countess Dracula]]'' (1971)<ref name="pitt">{{cite magazine|date=29 November 2025|access-date=29 November 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/not-quite-movie-stars-ingrid-pitt/|title=Not Quite Movie Stars: Ingrid Pitt}}</ref> and ''[[Hands of the Ripper]]'' (1971).<ref>[[Pirie, David]], "New Blood", in ''[[Sight & Sound]]'', volume 40, issue 2 (Spring 1971): 73.</ref> Sasdy directed the 1960s TV series ''[[Wuthering Heights (1967 TV series)|Wuthering Heights]]'', ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 TV series)|The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' and ''[[The Spoils of Poynton#Adaptations|The Spoils of Poynton]]'' for BBC TV. He also directed several early episodes of the hit TV series ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', and earned a [[Razzie Award]] for his direction of the 1983 film ''[[The Lonely Lady]]''.

He directed three adaptations of [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories: ''The Illustrious Client'', the first episode of the [[Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)|1965 BBC series]] starring [[Douglas Wilmer]] as Sherlock Holmes and [[Nigel Stock (actor)|Nigel Stock]] as [[Dr. 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 ''[[Adrian Mole|The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 {{fraction|3|4}}]]''. He also produced and directed [[Kingsley Amis]]'s ''Ending Up'' for Thames TV, which starred [[John Mills]], [[Wendy Hiller]] and [[Michael Hordern]].

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==External links==
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