Trivia

Produced 37 of the first 50 films released by Hammer Studios.

Served in the RAF during World War II.

Son of co-founder of Hammer Films Will Hammer, who took over his father's share of the business when the latter died.

Hinds parted company with Hammer after Joan Harrison (at the behest of US backers) was installed, over his head, as the producer of the Journey to the Unknown (1968) TV series, with Hinds, despite all his experience, reduced to the role of a kind of glorified assistant. He was credited as "producer" and she as "executive producer". Hinds and Harrison did not get on, and his parting from Hammer was a most acrimonious one, although he continued to write scripts for them and also other companies. His percentage of the (often considerable) profits of the films he'd produced meant that he could take a comfortable retirement before he was 50.

Such was his love of privacy that in 1963, when he had produced over 50 films, he was still telling his neighbours that he was a hairdresser.

Started in 1939 as a booking and barring clerk with Exclusive Films.

Due to budgetary constraints, Hammer could not afford to hire a screenwriter for La Nuit du loup-garou (1961). Consequently, Hinds stepped in to turn out a workable script under the pseudonym 'John Elder'. He continued to use this alias for his many writing credits during the remainder of the 1960's and 70's.