Michael Armstrong is a British writer and director Armstrong trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was writing and directing films at the age of 22 with the award-winning short, The Image starring David Bowie and Michael Byrne. The following year, he wrote and directed his first feature film, The Haunted House of Horror, starring Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Mark Wynter, Richard O'Sullivan and Dennis Price, following it with the notorious Mark of the Devil, starring Herbert Lom and Udo Kier which smashed all box office records in Europe and America on its first release in 1970 and has grown to be one of the biggest cult films ever. Since then, Armstrong?s film credits have included House of the Long Shadows starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine, the highly successful comedies, Eskimo Nell starring Armstrong himself, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Timothy, Diane Langton, Anna Quayle, Sheila Bernette and a host of comedy stars, and The Adventures Of... series which broke box office records in the UK. In all he has written and/or directed seventeen feature films internationally, for which he has won numerous awards. 

July 24th, 1944 in Bolton (Age 80)