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Donald Herman "Don" Sharp was an Australian-born British film director. His most famous films were made for Hammer Studios in the 1960s, and included The Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin, the Mad Monk . Also in 1965 he directed The Face of Fu Manchu, based on the character created by Sax Rohmer,... here played by Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the first sequel The Brides of Fu Manchu . In the 1980s he was also responsible for several hugely popular miniseries adapted from the novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Sharp was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1921, according to official military records and his own claims, even though reference sources cite 1922 as his year of birth. He attended St Virgil's College. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 April 1941 and was discharged on 17 March 1944 at the rank of corporal. After the war he worked as an actor on stage and radio throughout Australia and in Japan. He then moved to England where he produced and co-wrote a film, Ha'penny Breeze . He continued to act with small roles in such films as The Planter's Wife and The Cruel Sea .
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