- 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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- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
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Hammer co-founder, producer and production manager Sir James Carreras MBE was born on the 30th of January, 1910. Having worked as manager of Manchester’s […]
Wallace Ford was born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England on the 12th of February, 1898. At the age of seven, he was […]
Montague Rhodes James, the celebrated English author of antiquarian ghost stories, was born on the 1st of August, 1862. Although an extremely learned and […]
Carla Laemmle was born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle on 20th October, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. Of German Jewish descent, she took the adjunctive format of […]
Actor Sandor Elès was born on the 15th of June 1936 in Budapest, Hungary. Orphaned during World War II, Elès emigrated to the UK […]
Actress Suzan Farmer, known in horror circles for her roles in several Hammer classics, was born on the 16th of June 1942. A combination […]
John Nicholas Foran was born in Flemington, New Jersey on the 18th of June, 1910. He attended a series of prestigious schools including Mercersburg […]
