''Vampire'' is a 1979 American

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directed by E. W. Swackhamer, co-written and produced by

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, and starring

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, Jason Miller,

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, Kathryn Harrold,

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, and

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Premise

When a

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estate is converted into a church, Hungarian prince and handsome millionaire Anton Voytek arrives at the dedication ceremonies. Posing as an art collector, Voytek is actually a vampire with an irresistible power over women who has been in the San Francisco Bay area for many years. He manages to escape detection by using various disguises and secret coffins hidden around the city. During the ceremonies, retired policeman Harry Kilcoyne, notices the earth beginning to smoke when the shadow of a cross falls on it. There then follows a series of puzzling and gruesome murders that send the police searching for a psychotic killer. Harry is convinced that the killings are the work of a vampire when he recalls a similar chain of unsolved homicides committed thirty years ago, so he teams up with a vampire killer to hunt down the vampire.Panorama newspaper; GBC (

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) TV Highlights; 24/10/1988; Page 18

Cast

as Anton Voytek * Jason Miller as John Rawlins *

as Harry Kilcoyne * Kathryn Harrold as Leslie Rawlins *

as Nicole DeCamp *

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as Andrea Parker * Michael Tucker as Christopher Bell *

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as Brandy *

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as Father Hanley *

as Captain Desher * Byron Webster as Selby * Brendan Dillon as Father Devlin

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* American television films 1979 horror films 1979 television films 1979 films American Broadcasting Company original films American thriller films American supernatural horror films American vampire films 1970s English-language films 1979 thriller films American horror television films American gothic horror films Romantic horror films Vampires in television Films scored by Fred Karlin MTM Enterprises films Films directed by E. W. Swackhamer 1970s American films English-language horror films English-language thriller films {{US-tv-horror-film-stub