Jack the Ripper On Film

1924 -Germany - Dir: Paul Leni / Leo Birinsky

Werner Krauss as Jack the Ripper (Spring-
Heeled Jack)

1927 -UK - Dir: Alfred Hitchcock

Ivor Novello as The Lodger
(who may or may not be a Jack the Ripper-
based murderer)

Based on the novel The Lodger by Marie
Belloc Lowndes (1913)

1929 - Germany - Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
(Based on the play Die Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] by Frank Wedekind, published in 1904)

Gustav Diessl as Jack the Ripper

1932 - UK - Dir: Maurice Elvey
(The first sound version adaptation of Marie
Belloc Lowndes' novel, The Lodger. Like the
Hitchcock film above, it also stars Ivor Novello)

Ivor Novello as The Lodger (Michel Angeloff)

1944 - USA - Dir: John Brahm

Laird Cregar as The Lodger (Mr. Slade)
(who, like the two titles above, may or may
not be Jack the Ripper in this adaptation of
Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel)

1950
UK
Dir: Godfrey Grayson

1953 - USA - Dir: Hugo Fregonese

Jack Palance as Slade
(who may or may not be Jack the Ripper)

1958 - USA - Dir: David MacDonald
(TV Series)
Episode: Jack the Ripper

Niall MacGinnis as Walter Durst
(a clairvoyant suspected by police as Jack
the Ripper)

1959 - UK - Dir: Robert S. Baker / Monty Berman

1961 (April 11-original air date)
USA
Dir: Ray Milland
(TV Series)
Episode: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

1965
UK
Dir: James Hill

1967 (December 22-original air date)
USA
Dir: Joseph Pevney
Story by: Robert Bloch
(TV Series)
Episode: Wolf in the Fold

1968 (January 25-original air date)
USA - Dir: Charles R. Rondeau
Story by: Harlan Ellison
(TV Series)
Episode: Knife in the Darkness

1971 (October 17)
UK
Dir: Roy Ward Baker

1971 (October 17)
UK
Dir: Peter Sasdy

1971
Spain/Italy
Dir: José Luis Madrid

1972 (May)
UK
Dir: Peter Medak

1972 (October 14-original air date)
USA - Dir: Robert Day
(TV Series)
Episode: With Affection,
Jack the Ripper

1975
Sweden/USA
Dir: Vernon P. Becker

1976 (September)
Switzerland/West Germany
Dir: Jess Franco

1976 (July)
Japan
Dir: Yasuharu Hasebe

1979 (February)
Canada/UK
Dir: Bob Clark

1979 (August)
USA
Dir: Nicholas Meyer

1980
France/Italy/Germany
Dir: Walerian Borowczyk

1985
USA
Dir: E.W. Swackhamer
(TV Movie)

1988 (May)
USA
Dir: Rowdy Herrington

1988 (October)
Uk/USA
Dir: David Wickes
(TV Miniseries)

1989
UK/USA/France/Hungary
Dir: Gérard Kikoïne

1997 (September 22-original air date)
USA
Dir: Allan Arkush
(TV Series)
Episode: A Rip in Time

1997 (December)
USA/Australia
Dir: Janet Meyers
(TV Movie)

1998 (November 27-original air date)
Canada
Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson
(TV Series)
Episode: The Ripper

1999 (May 7-original air date)
USA
Dir: Mario Azzopardi
(TV Series)
Episode: Ripper

1999 (May 23-original air date)
UK
Dir: Nic Phillips
(TV Series)
Episode: ...The 'Ouses in Between

1999 (June)
USA/Australia
Dir: William Tannen

2001
USA
Dir: Albert Hughes / Allen Hughes

2002
USA
Dir: John Hough

2005 (March 20-original air date)
Canada
Dir: Larry Sugar
(TV Series)
Episode: The Ripper

2009
UK
(TV Series)

2010
USA
Dir: Whitney Hamilton