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| On location at Fulham: Peck, director Donner and Troughton |
Richard Donner's cult horror film
was shown on BBC2 last night - it
featured a notable Oscar-winning
score from Jerry Goldsmith, and an
intense performance (and memo-
rable death scene) from Patrick
Troughton as doomed Father
Brennan.
Here, Robert Thorn (played by
Gregory Peck), US ambassador to
Britain, learns the shocking truth
about his son Damien (Harvey
Stephens) - he is the Antichrist,
with a 666 birthmark, and must be
slain by means of sacred daggers.
The feature spawned three sequels
- 1978's Damien: Omen II, Omen
III: The Final Conflict (1981), and
the TV movie, Omen IV: The
Awakening (1991). A cinema
remake and spin-off TV series,
Damien, followed in 2006 and
2016. The Omen (an Anglo-
American production released by Fox in 1976) also starred Lee
Remick, Billie Whitelaw, David Warner, and ten Doctor Who
cast/crew connections:
- Tommy [George] Duggan (Priest) was Senator Alcott in The Mind of Evil
- Roy Boyd (Reporter) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
- Ronald [Frederick] Leigh-Hunt (Man) was Commanders, Julian Radnor in The Seeds of Death, and Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen
- Burnell Tucker (Agent) was Garner Two in The Angels Take Manhattan
- Robert [born Lucio Herbert] Rietty (Monk) voiced Bedloe for Death Comes to Time
- Juba [Elgar] Kennerley (Spectator) was an Old Man in (episode 2 of) The Massacre
- Tina Simmons (Official/Remick's stand-in here & The Medusa Touch) began her career as an Inferno Customer in The War Machines (1), and was Passenger in The Faceless Ones (1)
- stunt co-ordinator Alf [Charles Richard] Joint was a Heavy in The Ambassadors of Death, Primitive/Guard in Colony in Space, and stunt arranger on Battlefield
- Eddie Powell (Policeman) and William Parnell both worked on Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD - as Thompson and assistant sound editor
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