July 1

BORN ON July 1

1977 – Liv Tyler who appeared in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Armageddon”, “The Incredible Hulk” (2008) and “The Strangers”.

1967 – Pamela Andexrson who played “Barbed Wire” and appeared in “Scary Movie 3″ and “Superhero Movie.”

1965 – Denice Duff, had appeared in “Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation”, “Song of the Vampire”, “The Monster Man”, “Bloodstone: Subspecies II”, “Bloodlust: Subspecies III”, “Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm” and several more.

1962 – Andre Braugher, who appeared in “The Mist” and the 2004 remake of the TV movie “Salem’s Lot.”

1959 – Dale Midkiff who appeared in the films “Pet Sematary,” “The Crow: Salvation,” “Flight Of The Living Dead” and Hell’s Kitty (2018).

1957 – The late Lisa Blount, appeared in “Prince of Darkness”, “Nightflyers”, “Deadly Nightmares (TV Series)”, “What Waits Below”, “Dead & Buried” and more.

1952 – Dan Aykroyd who appeared in the “Ghostbusters” films, ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie,” the remake of “Earth vs. the Spider”.

1951 – Terrence Mann who appeared in “Critters,” “Critters 2,” “Critters 3″ and “Critters 4.”

1945 – Debbie Harry who appeared in “Videodrome,” “Body Bags” and “Tales From the Darkside: The Movie.”

1942 – Geneviève Bujold who starred in “Coma,” “Dead Ringers” and “Murder By Decree.”

1942 – Karen Black who starred in “Trilogy of Terror,” “House of 1000 Corpses” (as “Mother Firefly”) and “Plan 10 From Outer Space.”

1935 – David Prowse played in both “Horror of Frankenstein” and “Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell.”

1934 – Jean Marsh who appeared in “Frenzy,” “The Changeling” and “The Unearthly Stranger.”

1934 – “Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger” himself, Jamie Farr. He appeared in the film “Curse II: The Bite.” He was the only member of the M*A*S*H cast to have actually served in the Korean War.

1930 – Moustapha Akkad, producer best known for producing the “Halloween” series of films.

1920 – Harold Sakata who played Oddjob in “Goldfinger” and appeared in the film “Dimension Five.”

1916 – Olivia De Havilland who appeared in “The Swarm,” “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte” and “Lady In a Cage.”

1899 – The late great Charles Laughton.

 

DIED ON July 1

2004 – Marlon Brando, who portrayed “Superman’s” father “Jor-El” and “Dr. Moreau” in the 1996 remake of “The Island of Dr. Moreau”.

2000 – Edward Dmytryk who directed “Captive Wild Woman,” “The Devil Commands”.

1995 – Wolfman Jack who appeared in “Motel Hell,” and “Midnight”.

1991 – Michael Landon who played the title role in “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”

1988 – Alice Nunn, had appeared in “Trick or Treat”, “Dark Night of the Scarecrow”, “The Fury”, “Snakes” and more.

1977 – Karl “Killer” Davis, who appeared in the films “Creature With the Atom Brain,” “The Zombies of Mora Tau” and “Mighty Joe Young”.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON July 1

How To Make a Monster (1958)
The Rejuvenator (1988)

Zombie Cult Massacre (1998)

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July 2

BORN ON July 2

1985 – Ashley Tisdale, appeared in “Scary Movie”.

1980 – Jenny Spain, played the animated corpse in “Dead Girl”.

1970 – Yancy Butler, appeared in “Ravager”, “Shark Week”, “Witchblade”, “Wolvesbayne”, “Lake Placid 3”, “Rage of the Yeti” and “Lake Placid: The Final Chapter”.

1964 – Tim Sullivan, actor/producer who appeared in “2001 Maniacs”, “2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams”, “Chillerama”, “Bloody Bloody Bible Camp”.

1955 – Andrew Divoff, starred in “Neon Maniacs”, “Graveyard Shift”, “Wishmaster”, “Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies”, “Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation”.

1951 – Elisabeth Brooks who appeared in “The Howling,” and “Deep Space”.

1946 – Ron Silver who appeared in “The Entity”.

1927 – Brock Peters who appeared in “Soylent Green”.

1916 – Ken Curtis, who produced the films “The Giant Gila Monster” and “The Killer Shrews”.

 

DIED ON July 2

2006 – Comedian Jan Murray, appeared in “The Vampire” episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”.

1997 – James Stewart starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window.”

1993 – Fred Gwynne who played “Herman Munster” and co-starred in the films “Fatal Attraction” and “Pet Sematary”.

1991 – Lee Remick, starred in “The Omen (1976).”

1973 – George Macready who appeared in “The Return of Count Yorga,” “The Human Duplicators” and the TV movie “Night Gallery”.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON July 2

The Maze (1953) – Hollywood
Psycho III (1986)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

 

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July 3

Born On July 3

1980 – Olivia Munn appeared in “Insanitarium”, “Deliver Us from Evil.”

1973 – Patrick Wilson, starred in “Hard Candy”, “Passengers”, “Insidious”, “The Conjuring”, “Insidious: Chapter 2″, “The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist.”

1970 – Shawnee Smith starred in the remakes of “The Blob,” “Carnival of Souls,” the TV remake of “The Shining” and in the “Saw” films.

1962 – Tom Cruise starred in “Legend,” “Interview With the Vampire” and the 2005 remake of “War of the Worlds” and the pitfull remake of “The Mummy”.

1957 – Michele Soavi, directed such films as “Dario Argento’s World of Horror (Documentary)”, “The Church”, “Cemetery Man. He also acted in the films “City of the Living Dead”, “The New York Ripper”, “Tenebre”, “A Blade in the Dark”, “Phenomena”, “Demons”, “Opera” and more.

1942 – Kurtwood Smith appeared in “Robocop” and “Amityville: The Reawakening.”

1927 – Ken Russell who directed the films “Gothic,” “Lair of the White Worm” and “Altered States.”

1927 – Carol Ohmart who appeared in the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) “Spiderbaby” and “The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe.”

1920 – Louise Allbritton who starred in “Son of Dracula” and “Who Done It.”

1906 – George Sanders starred in the films “Village of the Damned,” “The Lodger” and “Psychomania.”

 

Died On July 3

2006 – Jack Smith played a bit part as a reporter in the original King Kong (1933).

2006 – Arthur Haggerty as the “fat zombie” aboard the boat in the opening of “Zombie” (a.k.a. “Zombi 2″) and in “Night of Dark Shadows”

1980 – Walter Ladengast who appeared in the film “Dead Eyes of London,” and played “Doctor Van Helsing” in the 1979 version of “Nosferatu,”.

 

Films Released On July 3

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Mummy Maniac (2007)

Closer to God (2015) – limited

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July 4

BORN ON July 4

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

1982 – Hanna Harper, appeared in “The Boneyard Collection”, “Attack of the Virgin Mummies”, “Dementia”, “Devil’s Playground” and more.

1980 – Carrie Keagan, appeared in “Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens”, “Fetish Factory”, “Dead 7”, “V/H/S Viral”, “Dance of the Dead.”

1980 – Adrián García Bogliano, writer and director of “Late Phases”, “The ABCs of Death (segment “B Is for Bigfoot”)’, “Here Comes the Devil”, “Penumbra”, “Cold Sweat”, “Scream the Night” and more.

1946 – Ed O’Ross, appeared in “Sorority Party Massacre”, “Kindred: The Embraced (TV Series)”, “Universal Soldier”, “The Hidden”, and more.

1910 – Gloria Stuart, appeared in “The Old Dark House”, “The Invisible Man”.

 

DIED ON July 4

2008 – Evelyn Keyes, starred in “A Return to Salem’s Lot”, “Before I Hang” and more.

2003 – Tyler McVey, was known for “Attack of the Giant Leeches”, “Night of the Blood Beast”, “Creature with the Atom Brain”, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, and others.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON July 4

The Monster of Frankenstein (1921)

Tales of Terror (1962) – New York City

The Lift (1985)

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July 5

BORN ON July 5

1980 – Eva Green, appeared in “Dark Shadows” 2012 remake

1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, has appeared in “13 Sins”, “True Blood (TV Series)”, “The Walking Dead (TV Series)”, “Creature”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, “Jacob’s Ladder”, “Angel Heart” and more.

1948 – William Hootkins, was a wonderful character actor who appeared in “The Breed”, “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (TV Series)”, “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, “Death Machine”, “Dust Devil”, “Hardware”, and many more.

1945 – Marilyn Burns who appeared in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Future Kill” and “Helter Skelter,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.”

1928 – Warren Oates who appeared in the films “Race With the Devil,” “Badlands” and in episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Thriller.”

1912 – Richard M. Rubins property master for such films as “Attack of the 50 Foot Women,” “Attack of the Giant Leeches” and “Pit and the Pendulum.”

1904 – Milburn Stone who appeared in “The Mad Ghoul,” “Weird Woman” and “Invaders From Mars.”

 

DIED ON July 5

2007 – Kerwin Mathews, who starred in “The Boy Who Cried Werewolf”.

1987 – Alan Gibson, director of such films as “The Best of All Time Horror Classics (Video documentary)”, “Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)”, “Hammer House of Horror (TV Series)”, “The Satanic Rites of Dracula”, “Dracula A.D. 1972”, “Journey to the Unknown (TV Series)” and others.

1969 – Lambert Hillyer who directed films “Dracula’s Daughter” and “The Invisible Ray”.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON July 5

Panic In Year Zero (1962)

Nightmare Castle (1965)
Martin (1978) – France
Unseen Evil 2 (2004) – DVD premiere

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July 6

BORN ON July 6

1992 – Linda Bella, starred in “Ratpocalypse”, “Dracula: Reborn”, “Monsters in the Woods”, “Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust.”

1946 – Gloria Gifford, appeared in “Halloween II” and “The Others.”

1943 – Shelley Hack, appeared in “Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)”, “Blind Fear”, “The Stepfather”, “Troll”, “Time After Time” and more.

1927 – Janet Leigh, best known for her role in the classic Hitchcock horror film, Psycho (1960) also appeared in “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later”, “The Twilight Zone (TV Series)”, “The Fog”, “Night of the Lepus”, “Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)” and more.

 

DIED ON July 6

2002 –John Frankenheimer, directed “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and “Prophecy”.

1994 – Cameron Mitchell, known for “Demon Cop”, “Terror Night”, “The Offspring”, “The Tomb”, “Frankenstein Island”, “Without Warning”, “Screamers”, “The Toolbox Murders”, “Night Gallery (TV Series)”, “Nightmare in Wax”, “Blood and Black Lace” and many more.

1991 – Thorley Walters, appeared in “The People That Time Forgot”, “Vampire Circus”, “Trog”, “The Man Who Haunted Himself”, “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed”, “Frankenstein Created Woman”, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” and more.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON July 6

Blood Feast (1963)

Organ (1996)

Black River (2001)

 

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