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- Lon Chaney Jr
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English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England. […]
English actor, bodybuilder and weightlifter David Prowse MBE was born on the 1st of July 1935 in Bristol, England. Although probably most famous for […]
American actor Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on the 31st of October, 1936. Forced to abandon a budding athletic career following an […]
Universal’s The Strange Case of Doctor Rx was released on 17th April, 1942. Unsure whether it was a thriller or a horror, this lesser-known […]
Hammer’s She, adapted from the novel by H Rider Haggard, was released on 18th April, 1965. Starring Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and […]
The Beast Must Die was released on 22nd April, 1974, by Amicus. Starring Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Anton Diffring and Michael Gambon, the film […]
House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, and directed by André de Toth, was the first colour 3-D feature from a major American studio, and […]