Doctor Who Vs. The Little Vampire

Angela Sommer Bodenburg's series of Der Kleine

Vampir series of children's books began in 1979,

and were first adapted for German television in

1985.

This English language cinema version, filmed and

set in Scotland, was released by New Line in 2000

- it starred ten-year old Jonathan Lipnicki as Tony,

an American boy who befriends a family of ancient vampires.

Shown on Great! (formerly Sony Movies) last

night, the film also featured Richard E Grant

(pictured as Frederick), and ten Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jim [Edward] Carter (Rookery) voiced Brother Bernard for Big Finish's The Book of Kells (2010)
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Freda) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen, Felicity Lyme for UNIT: Shutdown (both 2016), and Reno for Friendly Fire (2023)
• Ed Stoppard (Von) voiced Fortalexa for Theatre of War (2015), and Sir Nicholas Asquin for The Beast of Kravenos (2017)
• Elizabeth Berrington (Elizabeth) was Auntie in The Doctor's Wife
• Steve Griffin was also a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
• three-times Oscar winning costume designer James Acheson also worked on twenty-nine episodes of the classic run (from The Mutants to The Deadly Assassin) and was responsible for designing the Fourth Doctor's first outfit
• digital compositor Sandra Roach was a 2D artist on The Idiot's Lantern, The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters
• Micky Reeves was the gaffer on Closing Time and Torchwood too
• Richard Glass and Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore both worked on The Time of the Doctor too, as (contact lens) optician and co-ordinator respectively