The Hellfire Club is a 1961

1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...

 film which tells a story based upon 'The Hellfire Club'. Sir Francis Dashwood's infamous 'Gentlemans' society of the 18th century. It starred Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...

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The notorious gentlemen’s club of the title was, at least according to the film, famed for its depravity, debauchery, and devil worship. Despite not being a Hammer production, there are visual similarities and the script was co-written by Jimmy Sangster, and co-stars Hammer regulars Peter Cushing and Miles Malleson

Miles Malleson

William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, particularly known for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the...

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Cast

• Peter Cushing
  Peter Cushing
  Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...
  
   as Merryweather
• Keith Michell
  Keith Michell
  Keith Michell is an Australian actor, particularly noted for his television and film performances as King Henry VIII of England.- Early life :He was born in Adelaide and brought up in Warnertown, near Port Pirie...
  
   as Jason
• Adrienne Corri
  Adrienne Corri
  Adrienne Corri is an actress of Italian parentage.She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago...
  
   as Isobel
• Peter Arne
  Peter Arne
  Peter Arne was a British character actor best known for various performances in British film and television, including supporting roles in the television series The Avengers, Danger Man, as well as villains in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series, in a career that spanned 40 years...
  
   as Thomas
• Kai Fischer
  Kai Fischer
  Kai Fischer is a German film actress. She has appeared in 54 films between 1955 and 1999.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 5, Episode 10: "Der Spitzel" * The Serpent's Egg * Escape from East Berlin...
  
   as Yvonne
• David Lodge
  David Lodge (actor)
  David William Frederick Lodge was a British character actor.Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown...
  
   as Timothy
• Bill Owen as Martin
• Miles Malleson
  Miles Malleson
  William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, particularly known for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the...
  
   as Judge
• Martin Stephens
  Martin Stephens (actor)
  Martin Stephens is an English former child actor, best known for his performances in the films Village of the Damned and The Innocents...
  
   as Jason as a Boy
• Andrew Faulds
  Andrew Faulds
  Andrew Matthew William Faulds was a British actor and politician.Born in Isoko, Tanganyika , to missionary parents, Faulds married Bunty Whitfield in 1945...
  
   as Lord Netherden
• Jean Lodge
  Jean Lodge
  Jean Lodge is an English film and television actress.She played Guinevere in The Black Knight and Lady Netherden in The Hellfire Club....
  
   as Lady Netherden
• Francis Matthews
  Francis Matthews (actor)
  -Early life:Matthews attended St Michael's Jesuit College, Leeds and started his acting career with Leeds repertory theatre before service in the Royal Navy.-Career:...
  
   as Sir Hugh Manning
• Desmond Walter-Ellis as Lord Chorley
• Denis Shaw
  Denis Shaw
  Denis Shaw was a British character actor specialising in slimy villains. Born in Dulwich, he was a rotund man, with dark, wavy hair, and slanty eyes...
  
   as Sir Richard
• Tutte Lemkow
  Tutte Lemkow
  Tutte Lemkow was a Norwegian actor and dancer, who played mostly villainous roles in British television and films. His chief claims to mainstream familiarity were his roles as "the fiddler" in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof and the old man who translates for Indiana Jones in Raiders of...
  
  as Higgins