July 1
BORN ON July 1
1977 – Liv Tyler who appeared in “The Strangers” and “Wildling,”
1967 – Pamela Anderson who appeared in “Scary Movie 3.″
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 “Ghostbusters,” “Ghostbusters II” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” the remake of “Earth vs. the Spider”, and has written many of the Ghostbusters shorts, tv series, and even the video game.
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 “Dead Innocent.”
1942 – Karen Black who starred in “Trilogy of Terror,” “House of 1000 Corpses” (as “Mother Firefly”) and “Burnt Offerings.”
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 – Jamie Farr who appeared in “Curse II: The Bite,” “Arnold,” and an episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
1930 – Moustapha Akkad, producer best known for producing the “Halloween” films including Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.”
1920 – Harold Sakata who appeared in “Impulse,” “Mako: The Jaws of Death,” and “Invaders of the Lost Gold.”
1916 – Olivia De Havilland who appeared in “The Swarm,” “Lady In a Cage,” and the TV Movie “The Screaming Woman.”
1899 – Charles Laughton, who appeared in “The Strange Door,” “Island of Lost Souls” and “The Old Dark House.”
DIED ON July 1
2019 – Barbara Darinka Zatler, appeared in “Mental Distortion,” Craig,” The Horror Vault Vol 1,” “Predatory Instinct” and “Little Big Boy.”
2019 – Sidney Norton Ramin, worked on the soundtrack for “Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth” and “The Amateur Monster Movie.”
2019 – María Idalia, actress in “The Incredible Face of Dr. B.”
2019 – Ennio Guarnieri, cinematographer for “The Visitor (1979).”
2004 – Marlon Brando, appeared in “The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)” and “The Nightcomers.”
2000 – Edward Dmytryk, directed “Captive Wild Woman,” “The Devil Commands”.
1995 – Wolfman Jack, who appeared in “Motel Hell,” and “Midnight,” and worked on the soundtrack for “31 (2016).”
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”.
1975 – Elizabeth Reaser, “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Nightmare Cinema,” and episodes of “The Haunting of Hill House (2018).”
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
2019 – Jose Luis Merino, Director/Writer for “The Hanging Woman,” “Scream of the Demon Lover,” “The Five Warnings of Satan,” and Produced some episodes of “Stores From the Other Side,” and “Tales From the Other Side.”
2019 – Robert E. Bradford, did the soundtrack for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941).”
2019 – Justin Bodle, Produced “The Day of the Triffids (2009),” and TV movies “Summer House (2008),” “You Belong To Me 2008),” and “Voices (2018).”
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 was also in the “Saw” films.
1962 – Tom Cruise starred in “War of the Worlds (2005)” as well as the pitiful remake of “The Mummy (2017),” he was also producer for “The Others (2001).”
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 a couple episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1906 – George Sanders starred in the films “Village of the Damned,” “The Lodger” and “Psychomania.”
Died On July 3
2019 – Arte Johnson, acted in “Evil Toons,” “Evil Spirits,” “Love at First Bite,” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone (1961),” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961),” and “Night Gallery (1971).”
2019 – Pol Cruchten, produced “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears.”
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
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
BORN ON July 4
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
2019 – Arturo Fernández, appeared in “The Five Warnings of Satan” and “Sound of Horror.”
2019 – Eduardo Fajardo, actor in “La Llorona (1960),” “Maniac Mansion,” “Lisa and the Devil,” “Evil Eye,” “The House of Exorcism,” “Nightmare City,” “Oasis of the Zombies,” and many others
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 (1959)”, “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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