- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Ray Harryhausen
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
Master Monster Maker (Howard) Roy Ashton was born on the 16th of April, 1909 in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a tenor, and associated for […]
Michael Henry Carreras, known for his involvement in so many Hammer classics as producer, director or screenwriter, was born on the 21st of December, […]
English cinematographer Jack Asher BSC was born on the 29th of March, 1916, in London. Best remembered for his work with Hammer, Asher lent […]
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. […]
The English stage, film and television actor, Bramwell Fletcher, was born on the 20th of February, 1904 in Bradford, England. Remembered for his small […]
British character actor Michael Ripper, the Hammer stalwart who appeared in more of their films than any other actor, was born in Portsmouth, England, […]
Peter Cushing, OBE, was born Peter Wilton Cushing on the 26th May 1913, in Kenley, Surrey, England. Finding fame on both sides of the […]
