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- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Lon Chaney Jr
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- 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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- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1902 (sometimes listed as 1900 or 1905), David Manners became one of the […]
English actress Eva Moore was born on the 9th of February, 1870, and had a career on stage and in film spanning six decades. […]
F W Murnau was born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe on the 28th of December, 1888 in Bielefeld in the province of Westphalia, now western Germany. […]
Ilona Massey, the sophisticated, blonde Hungarian import touted to be ‘the new Dietrich’, was born Hajmássy in Budapest on the 16th of June, 1910. […]
Actor Michael Mark was born in Mogilev, Belarus, on the 15th of March, 1886. Appearing in over 120 films throughout his career, he was […]
Mary Jeanette Moran, known as Peggy from a young age, was born on the 23rd of October, 1918 in Clinton, Iowa. Moving west with […]
Born in Whitechapel, London on the 6th of October, 1907, Philip Martell studied at the Guildhall School of Music. He joined Hammer in 1954 […]
