- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
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Benjamin F Chapman Jr was born on the 29th of October, 1925 in Oakland, California. He spent much of his childhood in Tahiti before […]
Bruce Cabot was born Étienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac on the 20th of April, 1904 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He studied at the University […]
English actor of stage and screen, Colin Clive, died on the 25th of June, 1937, aged just 37. Although most famously remembered for playing […]
Edward Erskholme Clive was born on the 28th of August, 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire, Wales. He studied at St Bartholemew’s Hospital in London […]
Hazel Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, England on the 10th of February, 1926, and studied drama in nearby Birmingham. Making her screen debut […]
Born in Charleston, South Carolina on 1st February, 1906, Helen Chandler had established herself as a hugely popular stage actress by the late 1920s, […]
Hammer co-founder, producer and production manager Sir James Carreras MBE was born on the 30th of January, 1910. Having worked as manager of Manchester’s […]
