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Pete Walker

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Pete Walker

  • After directing House of the Long Shadows (1983), he decided to retire from filmmaking. He owns a couple of cinemas around England called Picturedome.
  • Cast actress Sheila Keith in five of his films.
  • David McGillivray wrote the scripts for four of Walker's movies.: House of Whipcord (1974), Frightmare (1974), The Confessional (1976), and Schizo (1976).
  • Was originally planning to make a musical film starring Sex Pistols called "The Star Is Dead"; the project got postponed after the group split up.
  • To cut down on the budget, most of his night scenes were shot during the day in Day for night mode.
  • Retired from movies in his early forties and moved into the construction industry.
  • Had a highly successful and equally controversial twenty-year film career as producer and director with his company Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd. He started out in the early sixties making 8mm stag loops of busty nude models and finished his career on a high in the early eighties when he directed his last movie the big-budget all-star cast horror film House of Long Shadows (1983).
  • Son of Syd Walker
  • Mother was a chorus girl.
  • Made TV commercials in the mid-60s.

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