- 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)
Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy – better known as Turhan Bey – was born in Vienna, Austria on the 30th of March, 1922, his father […]
Of all Universal’s classic monsters, the Mummy was surely the one treated with the least respect, being mercilessly put out to graft in its […]
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
by Jamie Jones Lon Chaney Jr was born Creighton Tull Chaney on the 10th of February, 1906 in Oklahoma City. It’s a scene that […]
George De Sylla Zucco, the English character actor who became a stalwart of B-picture horror films, was born on the 11th of January, 1886. […]
Wallace Ford was born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England on the 12th of February, 1898. At the age of seven, he was […]
John Nicholas Foran was born in Flemington, New Jersey on the 18th of June, 1910. He attended a series of prestigious schools including Mercersburg […]
