I was watching this great behind the scenes footage on You Tube from the 1966 film Dracula Prince of Darkness. It's one of my favourite Hammer Horror Dracula movies. It featured such icons of British horror and sci-fi as Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir and of course, the immensely tall Christopher Lee, as the scarlet prince himself.
But the film also contains actors who graced the TV shows of Gerry Anderson. At least their voices did. Charles Tingwell voiced the role of Dr. Tony Grant in Thunderbirds Are Go and Dr. Fawn in Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons.
But its the voice of fellow Yorkshireman Francis Matthews, which is instantly recognisable as that of Captain Scarlet, which he did, along with Charles, after Dracula Prince of Darkness. I'm surprised they didn't get Chris Lee, Barbara Shelley and Andrew Keir in there as well. Shelley and Keir went on to appear together in one of my favourite sci-fi flicks of all time, Quatermass and the Pit, in 1967.
Do you think Francis Matthews was well cast as Captain Scarlet?
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