- 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)
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
The American short story writer, playwright and screenwriter Garrett Elsden Fort was born on June the 5th, 1900. Although he worked on a number […]
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 […]
Carla Laemmle was born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle on 20th October, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. Of German Jewish descent, she took the adjunctive format of […]
Actress Suzan Farmer, known in horror circles for her roles in several Hammer classics, was born on the 16th of June 1942. A combination […]
Although made in 1921, and released in Berlin on the 4th of March, 1922, F W Murnau’s seminal vampire film, Nosferatu, didn’t see the […]
Herbert Bunston, a British stage and screen actor, was born on 15th April, 1874 in Dorset, England. Having attended Cranleigh School in Surrey, he […]
Born Julius Laemmle on 28th April, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, Carl Laemmle Jr was the son of Universal Pictures founder, Carl Laemmle, and was […]
