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- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
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Karl W Freund, cinematographer on The Golem (1920), Metropolis (1927) and Dracula (1931), was born on the 16th of January 1890 in Koeniginhof, Austro-Hungary. […]
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 […]
Author of The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, was born on the 6th of May, 1868, in Paris. After a career […]
Mary Philbin, the classic silent actress who starred opposite Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Conrad Veidt in The Man […]
Val Lewton, RKO’s master of horror, was born Vladimir Ivanovich Leventon in Yalta on May 7th, 1904. Leaving their father, his mother moved with […]
Maximilian Raoul “Max” Steiner was born on the 10th of May, 1888 in Austria-Hungary. A child prodigy, he conducted his first operetta when he […]
Lionel Belmore was born on 12th May 1867, at Wimbledon in Surrey, England. With a career spanning more than a quarter of a century, […]
