Pete Walker (director)
Pete Walker (born 4 July 1939)[1][2] is an English film director, writer, and producer specialising in horror and sexploitation films, frequently combining the two.[3]Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Life and career
Walker was born on 4 July 1939 in Brighton, England, the son of comic Syd Walker and a showgirl mother.[4][5] He began his performing career as a stand-up comic while a teenager, but quit at age 19.[4]
Walker made films such as Die Screaming, Marianne, The Flesh and Blood Show, House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin, Schizo, The Comeback, and House of the Long Shadows. His films often feature sadistic authority figures, such as priests or judges, punishing peopleTemplate:Sndusually young womenTemplate:Sndwho do not conform to their strict personal moral codes. Because of the speed with which he had to make his films, Walker often used the same actors, including Andrew Sachs and Sheila Keith.
Walker retired from filmmaking to focus on buying and restoring cinemas.[6]
Asked whether his films have hidden depths, Walker replied: "Of course they didn't. But recently I had to record commentary for the DVD releases, so I saw the films for the first time since making them, and you know what? They're not as bad as I thought. But searching for hidden meaning ... they were just films. All I wanted to do was create a bit of mischief."[6]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes | Template:Tooltip |
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| 1967 | I Like Birds | Directorial Debut Alternative title: For Men Only |
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| 1968 | The Big Switch | Alternative title: Strip Poker | Template:Sfn |
| 1969 | School for Sex | ||
| 1970 | Man of Violence | Alternative title: Moon | Template:Sfn |
| 1970 | Cool It Carol! | Alternative title: Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met | Template:Sfn |
| 1971 | Die Screaming, Marianne | Alternative title: Die, Beautiful Marianne | Template:Sfn |
| 1972 | Four Dimensions of Greta | Alternative title: The Three Dimensions of Greta | Template:Sfn |
| 1972 | The Flesh and Blood Show | Template:Sfn | |
| 1973 | Tiffany Jones | Template:Sfn | |
| 1974 | House of Whipcord | Template:Sfn | |
| 1974 | Frightmare | Alternative titles: Cover Up and Once Upon a Frightmare | Template:Sfn |
| 1976 | House of Mortal Sin | Alternative titles: The Confessional and The Confessional Murders | Template:Sfn |
| 1976 | Schizo | Template:Sfn | |
| 1978 | The Comeback | Alternative title: The Day the Screaming Stopped | Template:Sfn |
| 1979 | Home Before Midnight | Template:Sfn | |
| 1983 | House of the Long Shadows | Template:Sfn |
References
Sources
Further reading
- Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)
External links
This article incorporates text from the Wikipedia article "Pete Walker (director)", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.Retrieved 2026-03-05.
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hodgkinson, Will (10 March 2005). "'God, what a terrible film'" (review of The Pete Walker DVD Collection). The Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2020.