Tony Tenser

Tony Tenser (10 August 1920 – 5 December 2007)^[1] was an English-born film producer of Lithuanian-Jewish descent. He specialised in producing Exploitation film movies and founded his own production company Tigon British Film Productions in 1966, which also made more mainstream films such as Witchfinder General and other horror films.

Persuaded by his business partner in Compton Films, Michael Klinger, Tenser was responsible for producing Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966). the first two films in English made by the Polish director Roman Polanski.

• Naked - As Nature Intended (1961)
• That Kind of Girl (1963)
• The Yellow Teddybears (1963)
• Saturday Night Out (1964)
• The Black Torment (1964)
• London in the Raw (1964)
• The Pleasure Girls (1965)
• Primitive London (1965)
• A Study in Terror (1965)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Cul-de-Sac (1966)
• Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966)
• The Projected Man (1967)
• The Sorcerers (1967)
• Witchfinder General (1968)
• The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
• Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
• Love in Our Time (1968)
• What's Good for the Goose (1968)
• The Haunted House of Horror (1968)
• Zeta One (1969)
• The Body Stealers (1969)
• Monique (1970)
• Blood on Satan's Claw (1970)
• Black Beauty (1971)
• Hannie Caulder (1971)
• Doomwatch (1972)
• The Creeping Flesh (1973)
• Not Now, Darling (1973)
• Frightmare (1974)

• Beasts in the Cellar : The exploitation film career of Tony Tenser. by John Hamilton, Fab Press, 2005.

• Tony Tenser at IMDb
• Detailed document on Tenser's career
• Tenser Biography at Allmovie.com
• New York Times article

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