
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
6.2After 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
7.1Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.
A History of Horror
2010
5.6International 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
8.0Comedy 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
4.9Fu 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
5.8Couple 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
2010s · 2 titles
5.8A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
2018
NRNearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more
Callan: This Man Alone
2016
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.2After 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
5.6International 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
8.0Comedy 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
4.9Fu 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
5.8Couple 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
7.0An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel.
Mrs. Reinhardt
1981
6.9Penelope 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
4.2Influenced 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
6.1A 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
7.5A 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
6.2During 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
NRA married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest
Vérité
1973
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
NRThe 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
NRA 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
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
6.0A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
The Lifeforce Experiment
1994
NRMedieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
7.2Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.
Cold Enough for Snow
1997
10.0Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
No Trams to Lime Street
1970
3.5Ernest 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
10.0Liza 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
8.0The 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
7.0The 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
9.0Alan 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
4.7A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself.
She'll Take Romance
1990
NRWhen 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
NRPlay 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
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
NRMr 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
10.0British-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
NRA politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
Poor Cherry
1967
7.5In 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
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
NRIn 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
NRLes 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
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
NRDominic Behan's play concerning the IRA’s bombing campaign in London in 1939
The Patriot Game
1969
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
NRJolly sing-song with an important message; switch off all appliances before going to bed, because your life could depend on it.
Fire Routine
1979

