JULY 1

BORN ON JULY 1

1977 – Liv Tyler, starred in “The Strangers” and “Wildling,”

1967 – Pamela Anderson, appeared in “Scary Movie 3” and “Scooby Doo [2002].”

1965 – Denice Duff, 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 more.

1962 – Andre Braugher, appeared in “The Mist,” “The Andromeda Strain” and the TV Movie “Salem’s Lot [2004].”

1959 – Dale Midkiff, appeared in “Pet Sematary [1989],” “Nightmare Weekend,” “The Crow: Salvation,” “Flight Of The Living Dead” and Hell’s Kitty [2018].

1957 – Lisa Blount, appeared in “Prince of Darkness [1987],” “Nightflyers”, “Deadly Nightmares – TV Series,” “What Waits Below”, “Dead & Buried” and more.

1952 – Dan Aykroyd, starred in “Ghostbusters,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Earth vs. the Spider [2001]”, and has written many of the Ghostbusters shorts, tv series, and even the video game. He also performed some of the tracks for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”

1951 – Terrence Mann, appeared in “Critters,” “Critters 2,” “Critters 3,” “Critters 4” and “Red Zone.”

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

1942 – Geneviève Bujold, starred in “Coma,” “Dead Ringers” and “Dead Innocent.”

1942 – Karen Black, starred in “Trilogy of Terror,” “House of 1000 Corpses,” “Burnt Offerings,” “Mirror Mirror,” “Children of the Night,” “Ooga Booga” and more.

1935 – David Prowse, appeared in “Vampire Circus,” “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, 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, appeared in “Impulse,” “Mako: The Jaws of Death” and “Invaders of the Lost Gold.”

1916 – Olivia De Havilland, appeared in “The Swarm,” “Lady in a Cage,” and the TV Movie “The Screaming Woman.”

1899 – Charles Laughton, appeared in “The Strange Door,” “Island of Lost Souls” and “The Old Dark House.”

DIED ON JULY 1

2020 – Max Crook, worked on the soundtrack for “Children of the Corn” and wrote the song Runaway for “Christine [1983].”

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, appeared in “Motel Hell,” and “Midnight,” as well as worked on the soundtrack for “31 [2016].”

1991 – Michael Landon, starred in “I Was a Teenage Werewolf.”

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

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

1928 – Avery Hopwood, screenwriter for “The Bat Whispers” and “The Bat [1959].”

FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 1

How To Make a Monster [1958]
The Rejuvenator [1988]

Zombie Cult Massacre [1998]

No Vacancy [2012]

Haunting of Cellblock 11 [2014]

Grindsploitation [2016]

Cannibal Hookers [2019]

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JULY 2

BORN ON JULY 2

1985 – Ashley Tisdale, appeared in “Scary Movie V” and performed the track Voices in My Head in “The Unholy.”

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

1975 – Elizabeth Reaser, starred in “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Nightmare Cinema,” and episodes of “The Haunting of Hill House.”

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

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

1960 – Julia Montgomery, starred in “Girls Night Out” and “The Kindred.”

1960 – Terry Rossio, writer for “The Puppet Masters [1994],” “Godzilla [1998]” and “Godzilla vs. Kong.”

1955 – Andrew Divoff, starred in “Neon Maniacs,” “Faust,” “Pretty Fine Things,” “Graveyard Shift,” “Wishmaster,” “Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies,” “Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation,” “The Dead Matter” and more.

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

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

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

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

DIED ON JULY 2

2020 – Sam-yuk Yoon, writer for “The Hut,” “Suddenly in the Dark” and “Eob.”

2020 – Billy Tang Hin-Shing, directed “Dr. Lamb,” “Red to Kill,” “Haunted Karaoke,” “Dial D for Demons” and “Death Trip.”

2020 – Ronald Louis Schwary, associate producer for “Shadow of the Hawk.”

2020 – Tilo Prückner, appeared in “The Hamburg Syndrome,” Village People” and an episode of “Frankenstein’s Aunt.”

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

1997 – James Stewart, starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classics “Rear Window,” “Vertigo,” “Rope” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”

1993 – Fred Gwynne, starred in “The Munsters – TV Series,” “Fatal Attraction” and “Pet Sematary”.

1991 – Lee Remick, starred in “The Omen [1976].”

1973 – George Macready, 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” and “Scarecrow Gone Wild.”

1973 – Patrick Wilson, starred in “Hard Candy,” “Passengers,” “Bone Tomahawk,” “Insidious,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,″  “The Conjuring,” “The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist,” “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” “Annabelle Comes Home,” and also appeared in “The Nun,” “Insidious: The Last Key” and more.

1970 – Shawnee Smith starred in “The Blob [1988],” “Carnival of Souls [1998],” the TV remake of “The Shining” and was also in the “Saw” films.

1962 – Tom Cruise starred in “War of the Worlds [2005]” and “The Mummy [2017],” he was also producer for “The Others [2001].”

1957 – Michele Soavi, directed “Dario Argento’s World of Horror,” “The Church” and “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.”

1940 – Galen Thompson, writer for “The Evil,” “Superstition” and “Hellbound.”

1931 – Robert O. Ragland, composer for “Grizzly, “Q: The Winged Serpent,” “Evils of the Night,” “The Fear,” “Hysterical,” “The Touch of Satan,” “Mansion of the Doomed,” “Abby,” “Deep Space,” “Moon in Scorpio,” “The Fear: Resurrection” and more.

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

1927 – Carol Ohmart, appeared in “House on Haunted Hill [1959],” “Spiderbaby” and “The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe.”

1920 – Louise Allbritton, starred in “Son of Dracula” and a couple episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

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

DIED ON JULY 3

2020 – Saroj Khan, screenwriter for “Benaam.”

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, appeared in “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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