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Sir Christopher Frayling (b. December 25, 1946) was born on Christmas Day, which lore at least as ancient as Hammer’s The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) suggests leads to lycanthropy. Author, broadcaster, academic and arts administrator, he has written sixteen books – among them Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, The Face of Tutankhamun and Strange Landscape and Nightmare: The Birth of Horror (all three made into BBC television series), Spaghetti Westerns, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death, Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design and Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: Images of the Scientist in the Movies. His broadcast credits include the Channel 4 television series The Art of Persuasion (winner of the Gold Medal at the New York Film and TV Festival) and Busting the Block, plus the BBC Radio series America: The Movie, Britannia: The Film, Print the Legend, How the West Was Shot and Cinema Cities. Frayling is Rector of London’s Royal College of Art and Professor of Cultural History there, as well as being Chairman of the Arts Council England and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has several honorary doctorates and fellowships, and lists his recreation in Who’s Who as “finding time”.