James “Shamus” Sullivan and Edith “Biddy” Lanchester defied social mores in their refusal to marry; their daughter Elsa would continue the family tradition of […]
American director Erle C Kenton, who made more than a passing impression on the golden age of classic monsters, was born Erle Cauthorn Kenton […]
Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was born on the 8th of June, 1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He ran away from home at the age of […]
British actor Ernest Thesiger was born Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger in London on the 15th of January, 1879, and thanks to three defining performances he […]
English actress Eva Moore was born on the 9th of February, 1870, and had a career on stage and in film spanning six decades. […]
Evelyn Ankers, star of numerous horror movies throughout the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile on the 17th of August, 1918, to English parents. […]
F W Murnau was born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe on the 28th of December, 1888 in Bielefeld in the province of Westphalia, now western Germany. […]