Damien Thomas, the British actor perhaps best known for his turn as the vampire Count Karnstein opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer Films horror classic Twins of Evil, has died. He was 83.

Damien Thomas, who has died aged 83, was a British actor best known for playing the bloodthirsty Count Karnstein in Hammer’s Twins of Evil (1971), the cursed Prince Kassim in Sinbad and the Eye ...