Seth Holt

Directing

Seth Holt

Born — Died

1923-06-21 — 1971-02-14

Place of birth

Palestine

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Seth Holt was a British film director, producer and editor. His films are characterized by their tense atmosphere and suspense, as well as their striking visual style. In the 1960s, Movie magazine championed Holt as one of the finest talents working in the British film industry, although his output was notably sparse.

Known for

Taste of Fear poster
7.1

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Taste of Fear

1961

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb poster
5.5

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

1971

Station Six-Sahara poster
5.9

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

Station Six-Sahara

1963

The Nanny poster
7.0

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.

The Nanny

1965

Nowhere to Go poster
6.6

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

Nowhere to Go

1958

Danger Route poster
5.6

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.

Danger Route

1967

Behind the camera

Taste of Fear poster
7.1

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Taste of Fear

1961

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb poster
5.5

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

1971

Station Six-Sahara poster
5.9

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

Station Six-Sahara

1963

The Nanny poster
7.0

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.

The Nanny

1965

Nowhere to Go poster
6.6

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

Nowhere to Go

1958

Nowhere to Go poster
6.6

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

Nowhere to Go

1958

Danger Route poster
5.6

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.

Danger Route

1967