- 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
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- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
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Reginald Lawrence Knowles was born in Horsforth in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England on the 11th of November, 1911. Making his screen […]
Mary Jeanette Moran, known as Peggy from a young age, was born on the 23rd of October, 1918 in Clinton, Iowa. Moving west with […]
English playwright, novelist and poet Peggy Webling was born in St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, on the 1st of January, 1871. Although much of Peggy Webling’s work […]
Born in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) on the 11th of November, 1918, Peter Knego found himself under pressure from his navy captain father to […]
Peter Cushing, OBE, was born Peter Wilton Cushing on the 26th May 1913, in Kenley, Surrey, England. Finding fame on both sides of the […]
Austro-Hungarian actor Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein of Jewish descent on the 26th of June, 1904 in the town of Rózsahegy, Hungary, now […]
Hammer make-up supremo Philip Leakey was born on the 4th of May, 1908 in London, England. Leakey became the first make-up artist ever to […]
