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Piers Haggard

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British film and television director

United KingdomDirectorsLived 1939 to 2023 · aged 83
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Piers Inigo Haggard, OBE was an English director who worked in film, television, and theatre. He was known for directing numerous television programmes and serials in a career which spanned over 40 years, and won a BAFTA TV Award for the musical drama serial Pennies from Heaven.

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Filmography 40

The Blood on Satan's Claw1971 · ★ 6.2
Venom1981 · ★ 5.7
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu1980
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021
A Summer Story1988
The Ghost of Peter Sellers2018
The Quatermass Conclusion1979
The Shell Seekers2007
The Fulfillment of Mary Gray1989
Back Home1989
Cold Enough for Snow1997
The Lifeforce Experiment1994
Four Eyes and Six-Guns1992
Mrs. Reinhardt1981
Eskimo Day1996
She'll Take Romance1990
Visitors1987
Tigon Tales of Terror2005
Evelyn1971
The Others1970
Knockback: 21985
I Can't... I Can't...1969
Sam Found Out: A Triple Play1988
Knockback: 11985
Conquest1998
Desert of Lies1984
Neutral Ground1968
No Trams to Lime Street1970
The Hunt2001
The Chester Mystery Plays1976
Space Precinct: Deathwatch2025
Vérité1973
Waters of the Moon1983
Carbon Copy1975
Callan: This Man Alone2016
Poor Cherry1967
Ireland, Mother Ireland1971
Rolling Home1982
The Patriot Game1969
The Folk Singer1972

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Television 24

Play for Today1970
The Wednesday Play1964
Screen Two1985
BBC Play of the Month1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
ITV Playhouse1967
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries1987
Playhouse1974
Space Precinct1994
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971
Public Eye1965
Churchill's People1974
Callan1967
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island1986
Quatermass1979
A History of Horror2010
Pennies from Heaven1978
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1967
Armchair Theatre1956
Man at the Top1970
Six Days of Justice1972
The Newcomers1965
Love Story1963
Centrepoint1990

Awards 1

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Connected to Piers 6

Tom StoppardAlso in Neutral Ground (1968)Martin DempseyAlso in I Can't... I Can't... (1969)Ian OgilvyAlso in Tigon Tales of Terror (2005)John SchuckAlso in Four Eyes and Six-Guns (1992)Robert MacNaughtonAlso in Visitors (1987)Judy CampbellAlso in Carbon Copy (1975)

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Piers Inigo Haggard, OBE was an English director who worked in film, television, and theatre. He was known for directing numerous television programmes and serials in a career which spanned over 40 years, and won a BAFTA TV Award for the musical drama serial Pennies from Heaven. His notable theatrical films included the cult classic horror film The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), which is recognized as the progenitor of the folk horror genre.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1939 to 2023 · aged 83
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