- 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)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Christopher Lee – or, to afford him his proper title, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ – was born on the 27th May, […]
English stage and screen actor William Claude Rains was born on the 10th of November, 1889 in Camberwell, London. Rains grew up with what […]
English actor of stage and screen, Colin Clive, died on the 25th of June, 1937, aged just 37. Although most famously remembered for playing […]
Curt Siodmak was born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, on the 10th of August 1902, and would go on to define the identity of […]
Daniel Radcliffe, English star of the hugely successful Harry Potter film franchise, and Hammer’s 2012 remake of The Woman in Black, was born Daniel […]
Born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1902 (sometimes listed as 1900 or 1905), David Manners became one of the […]
David Selznick was born on the 10th of May, 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adding the O in later life to distinguish himself from an […]
