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Cast[]

Some pics and bios

An early cast list with agents is in the collection the Hardy brothers have received.

From imdb, with additions. * indicates cast members from other scripts. Some of the names in parentheses were names considered in other scripts. Names in italics are deceased.

Edward Woodward - Sergeant Howie. David Hemmings was Hardy's first choice for Howie but he had other commitments. Michael York, the second. Woodward, the third. (His autograph) He returned to locations for the BBC in the late 90s for BBC Scotland's Ex:S and in the mid -2000s for The Culture Show.

Christopher Lee - Lord Summerisle

Diane Cilento - Miss Rose

Britt Ekland - Willow

Ingrid Pitt - Librarian (Her role as a librarian was cut out. She plays the registrar.)

Lindsay Kemp - Alder MacGreagor (Willie Joss)

Russell Waters - Harbour Master (John McGreagor? Kevin Collins?)* (from the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow)

Aubrey Morris - Old Gardener / Gravedigger (John Young*)

Irene Sunters - May Morrison (also as Irene Sunter) (Katie Gardener? Myra Forsyth?)*

Walter Carr - School Master (from Citizens Theatre in Glasgow)

Ian Campbell - Oak (Bruno Elrerington was cast earlier in the cross-plot document.) Was a professional wrestler.

Leslie Blackater - Hairdresser (Her speaking role was cut out but she does appear in the Director's Cut. Doris M Latchie)* She appears in the Landlord's Daughter and Gently Johnny scenes too, wearing a blue dress.

Roy Boyd - Broome (His autograph) (Arthur Boldland? Bowlan?*) Broome is also listed as Onlooker in the cross-plot document.

Peter Brewis - Musician (recorder, Jew's harp, harmonica, bass)

Barbara Rafferty - Woman with Baby (as Barbara Ann Brown) (Young woman weaning baby)* (from the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.) That's her daughter Amy as the baby.

Juliet Cadzow - Villager on Summerisle (as Juliette Cadzow). Was filmed on the causeway being stopped by Howie, being surprised by Howie while ironing her dress (which is only in the Director's Cut), and wearing a mask as Howie tries to fly out. See more here. (Her autograph)

Ross Campbell - Communicant (The bearded man in the front row. of the mainland church.)

Penny Cluer - Gillie (Speaking role was cut.)

Michael John Cole - Musician (as Michael Cole) (concertina, harmonica, bassoon)

Kevin Collins - Old Fisherman (He was cast as Harbour Master earlier. John Mulvaney was cast as the Old Fisherman in the cross-plot document.)

Gerry Cowper - Rowan Morrison (as Geraldine Cowper)

Ian Cutler - Musician (fiddler)

Donald Eccles - T.H. Lennox (from the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow)

Myra Forsyth - Mrs. Grimmond (Cut but shot) (Helen Norman)*

John Hallam - P.C. McTaggert (Peter Kelly) Hugh is his first name. (PC = Police constable)

Alison Hughes - Fiancée to Howie (Mary Bannock)

Charles Kearney - Butcher (Ross Campbell)

Fiona Kennedy - Holly (Jane Walker was cast earlier in the cross-plot document. Jane Morton)*

John MacGregor - Baker (as John Macgregor) (one of the sword dancers*) (Roy Hanlon)*

James (Jim) McKenzie - Briar (misspelled in the credits as Jimmy Mackenzie), was a professional wrestler.

Lesley Mackie - Daisy (also as Leslie Mackie) (Terry Cavers*)

Jennifer Martin (Dolan) - Myrtle Morrison

Bernard Murray - Musician (percussion, replaced on record by Michael Fry)

Helen Norman - Villager on Summerisle (She opens the door, wearing red, asking Howie what he is doing during the search scene, according to Steve P's website.)

Lorraine Peters (real name is Linda) - Girl on Grave, body double for Britt Ekland. Had the same measurements.

Tony Roper - Postman (Tom Cotcher was cast earlier in the cross-plot document and Ingrid Pitt script.) (He is interviewed in The Ex:S Wicker Man) Some memories.

John Sharp - Doctor Ewan (Patrick Newell was cast earlier in the cross-plot document.)

Elizabeth Sinclair - Villager on Summerisle. She is seen with Juliet Cadzow in the scene where Howie stumbles down some steep stairs, surprising two women who are ironing. This scene is only in the Director's Cut. She is the woman on the right of this picture.

Andrew Tompkins - Musician (guitar)

Jan Wilson - Communicant (Not in any version unless in background.) She appears to be in the left front row of the mainland church scene, sitting next to the man with the beard, Ross Campbell. She was also cast to be the Lady Publican in a scene cut from the Ingrid Pitt script.

Richard Wren  (Martin Black*) - Ash Buchanan

John Young - Fishmonger (One of the antler dancers*) (Brown Derby*)

S. Newton Anderson - Landers (uncredited) (Who is Landers?)

Paul Giovanni - Musician (uncredited) - wrote music and lyrics for most of the music and sings Gently Johnny

Gary Carpenter - Musician (uncredited)

Robin Hardy - Minister (uncredited)

Peter Shaffer - Punch stand-in (GC, AB), re-wrote many of the lyrics which Giovanni changed more, was Giovanni's boyfriend. Also sat in on the editing process early on as Anthony was inlvolved with the filming of Sleuth at the time.

Katie Gardener - Prostitute/whore (mainland scene that never got into the movie) 

Tony Sympson - piano player in the mainland pub (never got into the movie)

Touchwood - the goat in the Wicker Man

"Ringo" - nickname given to the beetle in the schoolroom scene

Jimmy Kirkpatrick - man who was supposed to jump off the bridge

The "cross-plot" document, in Brown's book, lists some others in various roles, including:

John Mulvaney? - Old Fisherman (and ? in Pitt script for Two Fishermen)*

Arthur Boland? - Surprised Man (Scene 110 which never made it into the movie.)

Publican/Lady Publican*

maid in restaurant - (Juliet Cadzow, Terry Cavers, Lesley McCerte?)*

Alistair the Giant* (ended up as Oak)

Duggald. A small man*

Onlooker at bar* (explains wrestling in pub to Howie, see missing scene pic)*

Moultrie Kelsall - 1st Fisherman (from an early scene that never made it to the movie, spelled as Moultrice.)

Ian Robinson - 2nd Fisherman (from an early scene that never made it to the movie)

Bruce White - Old Fisherman (from scene 1-2, which never made it to the movie)

old woman in the library. - It has now been confirmed that the woman is Bella Ballantine of Stranraer. The character also had its hand chopped off to be used in the Hand of Glory scene which Hardy has confirmed. (John Morton* was to play the old MAN in the library in the Pitt script. At some point it was changed to a woman.)

Elizabeth McAdam-Laughland - Owner of Isle Castle in Whithorn was an extra in a number of scenes: the courtyard, the procession to the stones, on the beach, when Howie tries to save himself and the burning. Her bedroom was used for the scene of the dolls on a bed and 'still sit on her bed to this day.'

Bronco McLoughlin - stunt man. Stood-in for Edward Woodward in the "man". 

Extras[]

(See also this page for some of their memories arranged by scene and this page for lists that can added on to.)

teenage couples on the green (participants of the orgy. I count 8 couples) - students from the Bristol Old Vic theater school) (Beth Robens*, at least two others names are known. One is confirmed but private. The other has not been confirmed.)

3 pregnant women who touch apple blossoms

fire dancers - from the Edinburgh School of Dance and Drama (Stuart Hopps). 12 seen in the film. Some also appear in the schoolroom scene but I don't know how many. Only 11 schoolgirls are in that scene (and Lesley Mackie and Fiona Kennedy are two of them). Linda McArthur is one.

in the bar of the Green Man - Mark Sunderland is in the grey sweater, the last one seated at the bar on the long side. Next to him is a friend, David Graham, who had not been selected as an extra but ended up in the film anyway. (Nuada #3) (The Call Sheet for the 11/15 shoot at the Ellangowan lists 3 young men and 3 young women as extra talent. One would be the friend of Mark Sunderland mentioned above.) See also some individuals listed below.

Half a dozen fishermen in the harbour - Plockton residents included Peter Geddes, Murdo Gillies (owner of Sannachan), Kenny John Mackenzie (nicknamed "Empa", owner of The Escampador,, the evil eye boat), Johnny “Bogles” MacRae and Tommy Ure (who was from Kyle).

Antler dancers* - Six of them. (Amanda Sunderland's father* and her two uncles played 3 of them - Mark, Harry and Ian* Sunderland) (see interview) Paid £3.50 per day apparently! Don Boag is the man with the blue sweater and black glasses. Peter Carnes might be another. Harry Sunderland is wearing the light blue shirt. Ian Sunderland has the beard. Mark Sunderland is wearing the white shirt and is also in the Green Man wearing a grey turtleneck seated at the bar.

Tar Men - (3 or 4 depending on the script you look at) Only one seen in the movie in the courtyard. (4 tar men*)

Sword dancers - (half a dozen sword dancers*) (6 are seen in procession, one more added on the cliffs scene) - They came from the The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Band, 1st. Battalion based at the Redford Infantry Barracks at Colinton in Edinburgh. The extra on the cliffs was probably not from there as he had a beard. One is Duncan Milburn. He is wearing a brown jumper and khaki blazer. Another is John Brotherston (the blond.) Ron Creasey too, in the green top. Ian Sunderland, who was an antler dancer, became a swordsman in some shots at the end too. Henry Smith has red hair and is wearing a red top.

18* schoolboys on the green round the Maypole. (See also the wiki page for this.) All were from the Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart (Class 1c, 1d and 2d). Included Steve McHarg (age 14), Michael Conway, Gary Da Prato (age 13 or 14), Brian Marshall, Andy "Toot" Kilpatrick, Ian Paterson (Some of these names are from the "Douglas Ewart high school pupils past & present" Facebook page.) William Mc Gowan, William (Wullie) Lindsay, Jim Lowe, Jacqueline Christie Addis's husband, Mark Norris, Jim Burns?, David Cronnie? Gavin Marr (wearing yellow shirt and dark navy trousers), Norman Foster, John Gordon (Jim Lowe). Colin Stewart (Fiona Scobie). Les Bartlett.

Twenty 13 year-old girls for Harvest Festival photographs (13 hired) - from the Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart, class of 1976. Kathryn Soriani was a model but her pic was possibly not used and is not seen in the movie according to her. Wendy McLaughlan was used. Catherine McEwan was also possibly used. Shona Alexander - "I was an extra - had to stand about in Anwoth old cemetery wearing a thin white frock... Freezing in November! Think we were paid a fiver which was great money then." (Some info from the "Creetown Now and Then"and "Stranraer & District Memories" Facebook pages, others from a Wicker Man Facebook page.) Doreen Johnston was a model.

(For the photographs Howie looks at in the darkroom.)

A dozen islanders looking at the bone of an animal*

Half a down islanders throwing white stones into a fire*

Man in bull hide and four other men*

Elderly woman on ground wrapped in a blanket and a dozen onlookers.*

The schoolgirls - The Pitt script says there would be 18 schoolgirls in the classroom and at the stones*. Only 11 are seen in the film, 12 in the fire dance. Some of the schoolgirls were in the fire dance (Stuart Hopps). Fiona Kennedy and Lesley Mackie were not in the fire dance. Lesley says they were all from the ballet school in Edinburgh except herself and Fiona Kennedy. (They don't look the same to me...JL)

Kids carrying "death" out of the village - Drummore Primary School kids were used for this. Two groups were made. Only one made it into the film. That group had: Kirsty McColm (holding the baby doll), Gerald McSkimming (behind her),

Maybe 10 altogether? (probably = Half a dozen singing village children*), possibly: Susan McClymount, Marie McColm, Fiona Stewart, Brian Beck, Matthew & Kerrow Caughie and Colin Downie ((Edward Beck, FB, 9/20/09), Beth Swain, Katrina Maxwell (seen as the last child in the procession, FB, 10/8/13)

The other group had: Fiona Downes, Brian McCracken, and Bob Love. Also about 10 in it. They had the lines: "We carry summer into the village."

Three Jacks-In-The-Green* - One is seen in the cart with Holly dressed as a hare in the procession, Briar (Jimmy Fitzpatrick.)

Musicians* (Hornpipes, Three-holed whistles, bagpipes, drums, fiddles, tambourines) - None are seen in the movie besides the bagpiper (Robert Jamison, a classmate of Sheena Sanderson's - see below) who is seen in the procession, courtyard and chop chop scenes. The above-mentioned musicians are also on the soundtrack. The brass band in the procession, courtyard and final scenes were from the The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Band, 1st. Battalion based at the Redford Infantry Barracks at Colinton in Edinburgh, as were the sword dancers. Chris Edwards played the bass drum in brass band. Terry Waterhouse played the clarinet. Bandmaster Lafferty accompanied them.

Two old women and twelve year old child with hare mask* - In Ingrid Pitt's original script. 

Middle-aged man in a house* - In Ingrid Pitt's original script

 Three girls aged 10-13 in window of house* - In Ingrid Pitt's original script. Two that Howie makes take their masks off are: Fay Macaskill and Caroline Maclennan. The third one we see on the pan down the street when Howie first arrives is unknown.

Mother of girls in window* - In Ingrid Pitt's original script - see Helen Norman above.

A dozen assorted householders with their masked children* - In Ingrid Pitt's original script

Half a dozen women in the hairdressing salon in front of basins. 5 are seen in the movie with Leslie Blackater and Jan Dorman as hairdressers making a total of 7 in that scene. Two women in hairdressing shop under driers*

A very old woman* (Dead) John Morton, (Alive) Louise McLaren. "The woman in the coffin was Bella Ballantine (from Stranraer). She worked with my husband in the George Hotel at the time." - Karen Elizabeth Wilson (Facebook, 10/22/20 and 10/16/22)

For the procession and chop chop scenes, 25 women and 5 men. (Some also appear on the cliffs and as the Wicker Man burns.)

A young man blowing a ram's horn* (Bruce White) (Broome does this in all versions)

Four male flambeaux carriers*

At the cliffs, a crowd of about 100 male and female islanders* including: Jack Maltman (an art teacher at Douglas Ewart High School. He is the old man with glasses to the right of Howie seen in this shot. OM), Lewis Alexander, Aileen Lewis's husband. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak) Sheena Charity (see below), Katie Vance probably. (Some are also seen in the courtyard and in the procession.) Andrea Thompson, Jim McDowell (who also drove cast and crew around in Corviesal Dairies trucks.) Betty Reid, Irene Mihuka and Rhona Kelly. (Irene and Betty in this shot. (L-R)) Rhona in this shot (blue dress on the left).

Young man on a horse seen in pan of Harbour St, Plockton after Howie lands. - Likely to be David Ormerod.

Mr and Mrs Sutherland, teachers (at what school?) (Mary Stuart via Billy Pele McWhirter)

Mrs Pat Holman. unknown role. (Mentioned here.)

Man on the right holding the barrel as Lord Summerisle made the offering - A drayman from the brewery which lent the barrels, (The man on the left is Dave from the prop department.)

Known Extras[]

(See also memories of Extras.)

Andy Bays - In the Green Man in a red shirt, procession, beach and cliffs in a purple shirt. Also in the scene where Oak is wrestling in the Green Man but that scene isn't in any version. (See missing scenes pics.)

Amanda Sunderland's uncle Mark sat at the bar. (He also was an antler man as was her other uncle Harry and her father, Ian.)

Jim McDowell, from Creetown, driver for crew and equipment and in final scene. Was working at Corvisel Dairies. got taken to the Kirroughtree for a meal. Was in final scene but says he was cut out of other shorter versions (all versions have the same final scenes...) GG, 12/25/98

Other drivers included: Robert, Matt, Terry and Keith.

Many of the female staff at Lochinch were used as extras, including the chambermaid, assistant chambermaid, daytime cooks, stable girls and others. (Nuada #3, What the Butler Saw)

Frank Kirk - rowed the boat carrying Howie ashore on the mainland/in Stranraer. More of that scene was cut from the movie but he can be barely seen wearing his white cap in the Director's Cut and there are still pics of more of this.

Betty Dickson was in various crowd scenes and is one of the two masked women together in the hairdressing salon. Her husband was sitting on the steps of the Tolbooth (courtyard) in the white sweater/jumper. (Additionally they shot his shadow in Gatehouse of Fleet but that was cut.) Her daughter was in the Chop Chop scene. (Nuada #1)

Rhoda Macleod - girl who falls out of the closet! (Shot in Plockton.)

Sandra Macdonald - woman at spinning wheel when Howie searches houses and sees the ship from her window. Her house was next to the "thatched cottage" off Cooper St. in Plockton. She is also the woman seen in the third floor window of the harbour master's when Howie arrives! (Source: John Macdonald, her son.)

Annie Findlay - the woman who looked of the window as Howie arrived. (Lived in Creetown.)

Alisdair  Mackay and Iain Mackenzie appear in the shot where Howie walks across the causeway heading into town (Shot in Plockton). Alistair played jews harp and Iain was riding his bike, both are heading towards Howie but hard to see. (Mary Gollan, 3/12/22)

Martin Colerdige was head gardener/curator at Logan at the time and is seen tending a plant as Lord Summerisle and Howie walk behind him (in this shot.)

Tina Hart - woman in the yellow dress in the Green Man, sitting next to Oak. He also kisses her. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak)

David Graham - blond next Mark Sunderland at bar during the Howie's first night there. (Credit: Billy Mc Gowan)

Dave (last name unknown) - worked in the prop department but also got on-camera holding and rolling the keg of ale that Lord Summerisle split with an axe.

Andrew Blackwood - the man standing in his front yard as the postman rides past. (Briarbrae, Broadstone Rd, Stranraer)

Parishioners in the mainland church scene: Fred Wood - has a beard, big ears and wearing a skinny tie. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak), Pauline Chamberlain - congregant in the mainland church scene, the brunette on the right in the front row with shoulder length hair wearing a dress. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak), George Oliver - He's the bearded and balding parishioner sitting next to the wall in the fourth pew. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak), Mabel Etherington - She's the old woman with the white hair sitting in second pew. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak), Ian Selby - Very old balding guy wearing glasses in far back row left row. (Credit: Joe Wawrzyniak), John Stewart, Mrs Bell (Katherine Soriani's mother), Fay Norris, Mona Stewart - John (far left, 2nd row, Mrs Bell sitting next to John, Fay, sitting next to her. Mona is in 4th row on the aisle.) Info provided by Fay.

Joe McDowell - unknown part.

Isobel Downs - a classmate of Sheena's (below), she is seen in the final scene on Ash's left.

Sheena Sanderson (now Charity) - I was an extra and enjoyed every minute. My Dad wrote a letter to Stranraer Academy asking for two weeks off which was given. Seem to remember I got paid £200 😁 lot of money in those days. I was riding Argenta in what I was told was one of the opening scenes however it ended up on the cutting floor 🤣 then went on to be in lots of scenes bout 2 seconds each 🙄 (Stranraer & District Memories Facebook group, 10/22/20) I was 14 at the time, and I lived in Lochinch Castle from the age of 9-17 so was in all the scenes filmed in the courtyard below my bedroom and the garden scenes and was in the final scene singing n swaying 🤣 at the burning of the wicker man. Still wasn’t old enough when the preview came to the cinema ☹️ but I went n watched it anyway 🤣🤣 (Stranraer & District Memories Facebook group, 10/23/20) On Ash's right in the last scene. (Making of the WIcker Man FB group, 1/16/21)

The two kids who walk in front of May Morrison’s were In (Ian?) and Alan Gordon. (Iain Crawford)

Frank Sexton, Bett Greir and Old Uncle Tom Cobbley are mentioned as being seen in the film by the Galloway Gazette review of the premiere at the Regal Cinema in Stranraer in 1974. Old Uncle Tom Cobbley is probably the cliche', not a specific person...

Violet Marshall is a blond seen wearing a green print dress in the courtyard (to our left of the woman in red) , as Howie is freed from his Punch outfit, and as Howie gets surrounded on the cliffs (lower left-hand corner of this pic.)

The pregnant women seen touching blossoms were most likely recruited from a maternity clinic in Evesham (England) which is, apparently, where that scene was shot.

Justin Hardy, son of the director, is one of the voices we hear of the children chanting "We carry death out of the village." This was recorded at De Lane Lea studios...

Stand-ins[]

Ian Manners for Mr Woodward, Peter Moore was a double on the Oct 19 shoot.

Peter Cairnes for Mr Woodward

Helen Wallace for Miss Ekland

David Leather for Mr Lee

(Peter Shaffer for Punch)

Jane Jackson - "blocked" Willow's dance (as far as I can tell.)

Joyce Kinnear for Miss Cilento. Also Katie Vance.

A. N. Other for Miss Pitt

Crew[]

Directed by Robin Hardy (Bio, another) He cameos as the minister in the mainland church scene.

Writing credits Anthony Shaffer (screenplay). He also does a cameo in the crowd scene by the cliffs and can be seen near the end where Howie says "They'll come looking for me." wearing a brown sport coat and green turtle-neck. (screencap) An article about him more than 25 years after the film came out.

Produced by Peter Snell (See him in The Wicker Man Enigma and Burnt Offering - The Cult of the Wicker Man)

Original Music by Paul Giovanni (Also cameos singing Gently Johnny and as the villagers surround Howie on the cliffs. Screencap) See him in The Wicker Man Enigma.

Cinematography by Harry Waxman (director of photography)

Film Editing by Eric Boyd-Perkins (He is interviewed in The Ex:S Wicker Man, The Wicker Man Enigma, Burnt Offering - The Cult of the Wicker Man.)

Casting by Maggie Cartier

Art Direction by Seamus Flannery (See him in The Wicker Man Enigma, Burnt Offering - The Cult of the Wicker Man and Cast and Crew 2005.)

Costume Design by Sue Yelland

Makeup Department

Jan Dorman - hairdresser

W.T. Partleton - make-up (as Billy Partleton)

John Webber (on Call Sheet 11/3 #1 as well as unit list) - assistant makeup

2nd Assistant Director - David Munro (Bob Howard on another list)

3rd Assistant Director - Victor Smith

Production Accountant - Ernie Shepherd

Cashier - Jack Hawtree

Projectionist - Denys Moore


Production Management

Mike Gowans - unit manager

Ted Morley - production manager (pic)


Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Jake Wright - assistant director (He is interviewed in The Ex:S Wicker Man)

Brian W. Cook - second assistant director (uncredited)

Vic Smith - third assistant director (uncredited)


Art Department

Richard Rambaut - assistant art director (uncredited)

Keith Pain - draughtsman

Ken Court - Set Dresser

Sue Crowther - Set Dresser


Sound Department

Robin Gregory - sound mixer (pics: 1, 2, 3)

Bob Jones - sound

Vernon Messenger - sound editor

Jack Davies - Boom operator

Peter Myers - sound camera operator

George Widdows - Sound maintenance


Camera and Electrical Department

Peter Allwork - photography: second unit, cameraman/operator

Pat Davis - Focus (second unit)

John Brown - still photographer aka stillsman

James Devis - camera operator (as Jimmy Devis)

Mike Drew - focus puller

Chris Pinnock - second assistant camera (uncredited)

Ken Worringham - clappers /loader

Roy Davidson - Camera Grip

Victor ? - cameraman/assistant


Costume and Wardrobe Department

Masada Wilmot - wardrobe supervisor

Marina Drecker - assistant in the costume department, Call Sheet 11/3 #2). Signed her name as Marina Van-Okker for Raye Brown's autograph collection.

Olive Mcdonald - seamstress. (Her daughter Raye, also visited the set.) Nuada #2


Editorial Department

Denis Whitehouse - 1st assistant editor

Don Coutts and John Foster - 2nd assistant editors

Vernon Messenger - dubbing editor

R Burge and D Fisher - 1st assistant dubbing editors

Kit Davis - assistant dubbing editor

J Groom - track layer


Music Department

Gary Carpenter - associate musical director

Magnet - music performers


Other crew

Beryl Harvey - production secretary

Stuart Hopps - choreographer (as Stewart Hopps) although Cilento choreographed the Fire Dance. He also has a cameo in the Chop Chop scene following right after Christopher Lee. (He is interviewed in The Ex:S Wicker Man)

Jill Quertier - production buyer

Frank Law - publicist

Susanna Merry - continuity (as Sue Merry) (Only reference to her of any subtance (with a pic) I have found on the net.)

Jilda Smith - location manager

Fred Bennet - construction manager. In addition to his work on set, he loaded up and drove to Cannes the Wicker Man that was sent there, paying for that himself. (Brown). Ernie Blake is on another list as the construction manager.

Craig Miller - marketing consultant (uncredited)

Annie Ross - dubbing voice: Britt Ekland (uncredited)

Firemen at the Wicker Man - William (Billy) Lyons (says there were 4). 2 Whithorn firemen Sandy Petrie, Fire Officer at Newton Stewart and Retained Fireman Elliot Robb.

Deirdre Murray - on-set nurse who repaired Woodward's broken toe. (Brown)

Peg Cutland - on-set nurse who also tended to Woodward's toe (that got broken on the beach, she says...) She also bandaged the hand of the woman in the coffin and was a grave waterer (probably the older woman in that scene)! She is seen here in the Ex:S Files documentary.

Tommy McShane - helped procure animals.

Michael Fisher, FW Clark, Peter Cull and Trevor Mills - carpenters (Trevor S/B)

William Lowen - Rigger

L R Hoiwell - Rigger

James Savery - Stagehand

Walter Cusack - painter

Alf Wing - painter

John Hills - construction stagehand

H.A.G. Southall - construction stagehand

Tommy Frewer- C/H Standby Prop.

Derek Jones - Standby Prop.

Dave Merchant - C/H Dressing Prop.

Arthur Wicks - Dressing Prop.

Ted Stickley - Dressing Prop.

P. Reynolds - Plasterer

William Noble - S/B Painter

Alfred Hoye - S/B Rigger

James McCrory - S/B Stagehand

George Robinson - C/H Electrician

Ernie Rayner - Electrician

Leslie Weighell - Electrician

Ernie Floyd - Electrician

Horace Lee - Electrician

Charles Bacon - Dressing Prop.

Sid Nichols - Store keeper

Sidney Holt - Plasterers Labourer

John Wilson - Production runner, assistant at Hardy, Shaffer Associates before the film started and did some pre-production work as well.

"Most of the farm animals were supplied by 'Mr & Mrs John Christie' of Glasserton Bank Farm, otherwise known as Cherry Valley (Just outside Whithorn). The goat (named Touchwood) was supplied by the Vances of Common Park, again just outside Whithorn. I would imagine the Clydesale horse would be supplied by Hugh Ramsey of Millisle Farm, Garlieston (About 5 miles from Whithorn)." - Phil Heslop/Hazel Kirk. See this pic for a list of animals used in what one would assume is the final scene. The boy who was 7 or 8 at the time who got the toad is seen in the BBC Scotland documentary The Ex:S (The Wicker Man) at 9:53 might be Ramsay Dick.

Mr Love (Stranraer 3284) provided one of the pony and traps. Hugh Ramsey provided another. (The horse and cart on the beach.)

Archie Taylor provided the typewriter, files and such stationery for the registrar's office.

Keeley Hire (Film and Television) Ltd built the Wicker men. (See this pic of one "man" loaded and ready to be shipped.)

Seymour Transport, Whitehaven provided the cherry picker used for the film crew at Burrowhead. 

LocationStudios, London provided the double decker editing van/costume storage van. Some interesting info on this page. (Scroll/search)

Alex McCleary Funeral Directors (Newton Stewart) - Supplied a coffin (you can see his name on it in the shot!), sinks and small items and the bath. ('He also had a carpet shop/removals and storage hence the furniture store (that was once a bakery). In the days of the Wicker Man, Alex would send his son down to the store with the set people to select suitable items for use in the film. The Funeral business was sold on but still has the Name of Alex McCleary.' Billy McGowan, FB, 9/24/19, several posts, edited) Also have Ian McGhie of the Whithorn History Facebook group saying: "They filmed the coffin scene in Alan Faulds workshop." 

Felson's (sheet metal work), on King's Road (Whithorn?) had to alter a metal coffin into a baking mold. Martin Lochhead, FB Whithorn History group, 11/16/20)

Simon (last name withheld for now) - 1st assistant to Robin Hardy/continuity/gofer/photographer. Worked with Christopher Lee, Peter Snell, Anthony Shaffer in creating the plot. In some scenes. See his memories here.

Justin Hardy - He and some of his cousins were used as voices for the We Carry Death scene.

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