Piers Haggard

Directing

Piers Haggard

Born — Died

1939-03-18 — 2023-01-11

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Piers Inigo Haggard OBE, was a British theatre, film and television director, although he worked mostly in the latter. Haggard was born in London but grew up on a small farm in Clackmannanshire. His daughter is the actress Daisy Haggard.

Known for

Blood on Satan's Claw poster
6.2

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.

Blood on Satan's Claw

1971

A History of Horror poster
7.1

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

A History of Horror

2010

Venom poster
5.6

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.

Venom

1981

Eskimo Day poster
8.0

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.

Eskimo Day

1996

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu poster
4.9

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray poster
5.8

Couple wants a baby but husband cannot produce on. Husband calls in his brother, hoping his brother will oblige and his wife will agree. He takes a trip to allow them to get to know each other. Will all turn out as hoped?

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray

1989

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Blood on Satan's Claw poster
6.2

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.

Blood on Satan's Claw

1971

Venom poster
5.6

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.

Venom

1981

Eskimo Day poster
8.0

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.

Eskimo Day

1996

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu poster
4.9

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray poster
5.8

Couple wants a baby but husband cannot produce on. Husband calls in his brother, hoping his brother will oblige and his wife will agree. He takes a trip to allow them to get to know each other. Will all turn out as hoped?

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray

1989

Mrs. Reinhardt poster
7.0

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel.

Mrs. Reinhardt

1981

The Shell Seekers poster
6.9

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

The Shell Seekers

2007

The Quatermass Conclusion poster
4.2

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979

A Summer Story poster
6.1

A young lawyer from London, Mr. Ashton, and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor. When he twists his ankle, Ashton is forced to seek help at a nearby farmhouse and stays there for a few days. Innocent beauty Megan David catches the attention of Ashton. He decides to stay longer, and he and Megan fall in love, much to the displeasure of Megan's aunt and her loutish son.

A Summer Story

1988

Visitors poster
7.5

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.

Visitors

1987

Back Home poster
6.2

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty must adapt to a whole new way of life.

Back Home

1989

Vérité poster
NR

A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest

Vérité

1973

No artwork available
NR

A story of love, sex, seduction and violent death, set against the backdrop of a battle amongst the hunting fraternity. Sarah Campbell is a woman ostracised by the village she moves to after she bans the local hunt from using her land.

The Hunt

2001

Space Precinct: Deathwatch poster
NR

The arrival a mysterious meteor fragment on Altor, heralds the start of strange events at Roetem Towers on Krazucki Street where residents are being terrorized into relocation.

Space Precinct: Deathwatch

2025

The Folk Singer poster
NR

A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.

The Folk Singer

1972

No artwork available
7.0

Robert and Claire inherited an old Victorian house which they plan to renovate. While visiting the place their car breaks down and they are forced to spend the night there.

The Others

1970

The Lifeforce Experiment poster
6.0

A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.

The Lifeforce Experiment

1994

The Chester Mystery Plays poster
NR

Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

Cold Enough for Snow poster
7.2

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.

Cold Enough for Snow

1997

No Trams to Lime Street poster
10.0

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

No Trams to Lime Street

1970

Four Eyes and Six-Guns poster
3.5

Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona. The town's Doom Brothers are trouble for everybody including Wyatt Earp, the sheriff. Ernest uses his own special brand of short-sighted shooting to help Wyatt rid the town of its worst citizens and live in peace.

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

1992

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play poster
10.0

Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely dancer and a black prince, and a musical about a man and a woman having dog problems.

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play

1988

I Can't... I Can't... poster
8.0

The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

I Can't... I Can't...

1969

Desert of Lies poster
7.0

The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.

Desert of Lies

1984

Knockback: 2 poster
9.0

Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.

Knockback: 2

1985

She'll Take Romance poster
4.7

A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself.

She'll Take Romance

1990

According to the Rules poster
NR

When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case is likely to have consequences for both the policeman and his family.

According to the Rules

1974

Carson Country poster
NR

Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.

Carson Country

1972

No artwork available
NR

Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.

Waters of the Moon

1983

Rolling Home poster
NR

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.

Rolling Home

1982

Conquest poster
10.0

British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be repaired. She is convinced by the banker to take on the duties at the local hardware store to pay for the parts for her car and soon a romance between the two develops.

Conquest

1998

Poor Cherry poster
NR

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

Poor Cherry

1967

Knockback: 1 poster
7.5

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

Knockback: 1

1985

No artwork available
NR

A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.

Ireland, Mother Ireland

1971

Carbon Copy poster
NR

In Howard Schuman’s contribution to the Against the Crowd series, Jamaican Albert Sharpe II (Warrington) is no longer at ease with the cultured white family who have virtually adopted him.

Carbon Copy

1975

Marks poster
NR

Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a present - her name tattooed on his arm…

Marks

1982

Evelyn poster
7.0

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.

Evelyn

1971

The Patriot Game poster
NR

Dominic Behan's play concerning the IRA’s bombing campaign in London in 1939

The Patriot Game

1969

No artwork available
8.0

An allied agent is sent out into an obscure country to find a Russian Agent who has been thrown out of Russia for defection. He finds a broken man who drowns his days in drink, and feels sympathy for him.

Neutral Ground

1968

Fire Routine poster
NR

Jolly sing-song with an important message; switch off all appliances before going to bed, because your life could depend on it.

Fire Routine

1979