The Comedy of Terrors

Overview

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Release date

Jan 22, 1964

Rating

6.456 / 10

Runtime

1 hours 24 minutes

Genres

Comedy
Horror
Crime

Cast

Vincent Price
As Waldo Trumbull
Peter Lorre
As Felix Gillie
Boris Karloff
As Amos Hinchley
Joyce Jameson
As Amaryllis Trumbull
Joe E. Brown
As Cemetery Keeper
Beverly Powers
As Mrs. Phipps
Basil Rathbone
As John F. Black
Alan DeWitt
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As Riggs
Buddy Mason
No picture available
As Mr. Phipps
Douglas Williams
No picture available
As Doctor
Linda Rogers
No picture available
As Phipps' Maid
Luree Holmes
As Black's Servant
Orangey
As Cleopatra
Paul Barselou
As Riggs (uncredited)
Lovyss Bradley
No picture available
As Mourner (uncredited)
Harvey Parry
As Man Knocked Down on Street (uncredited)
Charles Soldani
No picture available
As Mourner (uncredited)
Fred Walton
No picture available
As Mourner (uncredited)

Crew

Floyd Crosby
Role: Director of Photography
Anthony Carras
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Role: Editor
Richard Matheson
Role: Screenplay
Daniel Haller
Role: Production Design
Jacques Tourneur
Role: Director
Les Baxter
Role: Original Music Composer
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Role: Producer
Marjorie Corso
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Role: Costume Design
Pat Dinga
No picture available
Role: Special Effects
Harry Reif
No picture available
Role: Set Decoration
James H. Nicholson
No picture available
Role: Producer
Daniel Haller
Role: Art Direction
Richard Matheson
Role: Novel
Elsie Lee
No picture available
Role: Novel
Anthony Carras
No picture available
Role: Co-Producer
Eve Newman
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Role: Music Editor
Al Simms
No picture available
Role: Music Coordinator
Kay Rose
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Role: Sound Editor
Robert Agnew
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Joe Wonder
No picture available
Role: Production Manager
Milton Lustig
No picture available
Role: Music Editor
Richard Matheson
Role: Associate Producer
James Nelson
Role: Sound Editor
Harry Sundby
No picture available
Role: Lighting Coordinator
Harold Hazen
No picture available
Role: Assistant Editor
Don Rush
No picture available
Role: Sound
Carlie Taylor
No picture available
Role: Makeup Artist
Betty Pedretti
No picture available
Role: Hairdresser
Verne Langdon
No picture available
Role: Prosthetics
Karl Brainard
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Role: Property Master
John Ceniga
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Role: Props
Donald C. Glouner
No picture available
Role: Visual Effects Producer
Harvey Parry
Role: Stunt Double
Jesse Wayne
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Role: Stunts
Les Baxter
Role: Conductor
Harry Betts
No picture available
Role: Musician
Albert Harris
No picture available
Role: Orchestrator
Thomas Z. Shepard
No picture available
Role: Musician
Jack W. Cash
No picture available
Role: Production Assistant
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Role: Presenter
James H. Nicholson
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Role: Presenter

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