Blood of the Vampire Blood of the Vampire Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film, produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, directed by Henry Cass, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, that stars Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball. Many horror fans thought the feature was a Hammer Films production when it came out, due to its similar look and Sangster's writer's credit. The film's U.S. release was in October 1958 as a double feature with Universal's "Monster on the Campus". The film's storyline, set in Transylvania, is about a scientist who uses the
S. P. Varadappa S. P. Varadappa Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Varadaraju (1935 – 8 February 2006), also spelt Singanallor Puttaswamaiah Varadaraj and popularly known as Varadappa or S. P. Varadappa, was a Kannada actor and producer, who produced movies such as Bhootayyana Maga Aiyyu starring [Lokesh(actor)|Lokesh] and "Hemavathi" starring Udaykumar. He was an architect in shaping up "Sri Vajreshwari Combines", one of the most successful banners in Kannada film industry, under which Parvathamma Rajkumar produced movies with Rajkumar, Shiv RajKumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar, and Puneeth Rajkumar. He was born at Gajanur – situated in the Karnataka–Tamil Nadu border – to Singanalluru Puttaswamayya, a theatre-artist, and Lakshmamma