Movie · 1952
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
“It's enough to make a bat laugh!”
Released 11 July 1952 74 min Comedy / Horror / Science Fiction More from 1952 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
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How old were they?
Bela Lugosi
as Von Housen
Arthur Lucan
as Old Mother Riley
Ian Wilson
as Hitchcock
Charles Lloyd Pack
as Sir Joshua Bing
Philip Leaver
as Anton Daschomb
Dandy Nichols
as Mrs. Mott
Laurence Naismith
as Police Sergeant at Desk (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
as P.C. Freddie
Judith Furse
as Freda
Peter Bathurst
as BBC Announcer
John Le Mesurier
as Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Alexander Gauge
as Police Constable (uncredited)
Graham Moffatt
as The Yokel
Hattie Jacques
as Mrs Jenks
Dora Bryan
as Tilly
David Hurst
as Mugsy
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The numbers
43years between the oldest and youngest billed
69Bela Lugosi — oldest on the call sheet
26David Hurst — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast