NOVEMBER 21
BORN ON NOVEMBER 21
1984 – Jena Malone, starred in “Antebellum,” “The Neon Demon,” and “The Ruins.”
1984 – Lindsey Haun, appeared in the HBO series “True Blood,” also appeared in “Shrooms,” “Addams Family Reunion” and “the 1995 remake of “Village of the Damned.”
1978 – Madeleine Wade, appeared in “The Call,” “Blood Craft,” “For Jennifer,” “Dances with Werewolves,” “The Backlot Murders,” “Tower of Blood” and more.
1965 – Bill Oberst Jr., prolific horror star who has done over 150 genre films such as “Nude Nuns with Big Guns,” “ Hell’s Kitty,” “All Hallows’ Eve 2,” “A Haunting in Salem,” “The Dooms Chapel Horror,” “Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies,” “Lifechanger,” “Children of Sorrow,” “Circus of the Dead,” “The Chair,” “Coyote,” “31,” “Clowntergeist” and many more.
1948 – Deborah Shelton, appeared in “Bloodtide,” “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Sacrifice,” “Perfect Victims” and “Blood Moon.”
1946 – Andrew Davis, cinematographer for “The Final Terror,” “Private Parts [1972],” “Mansion of the Damned” and “Crash!”
1944 – Harold Ramis, who played “Dr. Egon Spengler” in “Ghostbusters [1984]” and “Ghostbusters II” [which he co-wrote].
1941 – Juliet Mills, starred in “Beyond the Door” and appeared in “Waxworks II.”
1937 – Gus Trikonis, director for “The Evil,” “The Darker Side of Terror” and episodes of the TV Series “The Twilight Zone.”
1937 – Ingrid Pitt, starred in “The Vampire Lovers,” “Countess Dracula” and “The House That Dripped Blood.”
1921 – Vivian Blane, appeared in the films “Parasite” and “The Dark.”
1920 – Ralph Meeker, appeared in the films “Food of the Gods,” “Without Warning” and the TV movie, “The Night Stalker.”
1919 – Mary Foran, appeared in “The Hypnotic Eye.”
DIED ON NOVEMBER 21
2020 – Dena Dietrich, actress in the TV Movie “The Strange and Deadly Occurrence.”
2020 – Robert Garland, writer for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”
2020 – Jery Hewitt, stuntman in “Christmas Evil,” “Wolfen,” “C.H.U.D.,” “Creepshow 2,” “Lost Souls,” “The Nesting,” “Twisted,” “A Return to Salem’s Lot” and more.
2020 – Malcolm Marmorstein, directed “Love Bites,” “Dead Men Don’t Die,” writer for “Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary,” “Frankenstein – TV Movie” and the TV Series “Dark Shadows.”
2019 – Gahan Allen Wilson, movie review columnist for The Twilight Zone Magazine and a book critic for Realms of Fantasy magazine and a Cartoonist for Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night.
2012 – Deborah Raffin, actress in “The Sentinel,” “Grizzly II: The Revenge,” “God Told Me To,” “Scanners II: The New Order” and “Dance of the Dwarfs.”
1999 – Quentin Crisp, appeared in “The Bride [1985].”
1993 – Richard Wordsworth, appeared in “The Curse of the Werewolf,” “The Revenge of Frankenstein,” “The Camp on Blood Island,” “The Quatermass Xperiment” and more.
1986 – Dar Robinson, worked on the films “Manitou,” and “Burnt Offerings”.
1979 – Paul Wexler, appeared in “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake” and “The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters”.
1978 – John Barclay, appeared in the 1941 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” “Soylent Green” and “The Brotherhood of Satan”.
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 21
Frankenstein [1931]
Diabolique [1955]
The Mole People [1956]
Predator 2 [1990]
Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 [1990]
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000] – video premiere
Gothika [2003]
The Mist [2007]
Risen [2008]
Hive Mind [2009]
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NOVEMBER 22
BORN ON NOVEMBER 22
1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, appeared in “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and episodes of the TV Series “Stranger Things.”
1981 – Jacob Cooney, screenwriter for “Flight 666,” “3-Headed Shark Attack,” “5-Headed Shark Attack” and “Isle of the Dead”
1967 – Mark Ruffalo, actor in “The Dentist,” “Shutter Island” and “Zodiac.”
1966 – Richard Stanley, directed “The Color Out of Space,” “The Island of Dr. Moreau [1996],” “The Theatre Bizarre,” “Dust Devil,” “Hardware” and writer for “Replace,”
1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, played the title role in “Hannibal – TV Series.”
1964 – Stephen Geoffreys, appeared in the films “Fright Night,” “976-EVIL,” “Moon 44” and “Sick Girl.”
1961 – Mariel Hemingway, appeared in “Bad Moon”.
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, best known for portraying “Laurie Strode” in the “Halloween” films as well as starred in “Terror Train,” “Prom Night [1980],” “The Fog [1980]” and episodes of the TV Show “Scream Queens.”
1932 – Robert Vaughn, appeared in “Demon Seed.”
1904 – Roland Winters, appeared in the film “Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer.”
DIED ON NOVEMBER 22
2020 – Carlo Ausino, directed “Don’t Look in the Attic.”
2020 – Mustafa Nadarević, actor in “Reflections.”
2014 – Luis Avalos, appeared in “Wishcraft,” “Ghost Fever” and “Criminal Act.”
2002 – Joan Barclay, appeared in “The Corpse Vanishes,” “Black Dragons” and “The Seventh Victim”.
1986 – Scatman Crothers, appeared in “The Shining” and “Twilight Zone: The Movie”.
1984 – John Gilling, directed “The Mummy’s Shroud,” “The Reptile,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “Blood Beast from Outer Space,” “The Flesh and the Fiends,” “Vampire Over London” and more.
1983 – Michael Conrad, appeared in “Scream, Blacula Scream.”
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 22
You’ll Find Out [1940]
Feast of Satan [1971] – Barcelona
Necropolis Awakened [2002]
Creature of the Mist [2002]
Bloodshed [2005]
Night of Something Strange [2016]
The Houses October Built 2 [2017]
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NOVEMBER 23
BORN ON NOVEMBER 23
1979 – Kelly Brook, starred in “Piranha [2010],” “Survival Island” and “Ripper.”
1970 – Oded Fehr, starred in “Resident Evil: Retribution,” “Resident Evil: Extinction,” “Resident Evil: Apocalypse,” “The Mummy [1999]” and “The Mummy Returns.”
1959 – Dominique Dunne, starred in the film “Poltergeist.”
1938 – Sara Karloff, appeared in “Deader Country” and “My Lovely Monster.”
1934 – Robert Towne, screenwriter for “Orca,” “The Tomb of Ligeia,” “Last Woman on Earth” an episode of “The Outer Limits” as well as appeared in “Suspect Zero,” “Creature from the Haunted Sea” and “The Zodiac Killer.”
1923 – Paula Raymond, appeared in the films “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “Hand of Death” and “Blood of Dracula’s Castle.”
1923 – Keiju Kobayashi, appeared in “Godzilla 1985.”
1916 – Michael Gough, starred in “Horror of Dracula,” “Konga,” “Horrors of the Black Museum” and “Sleepy Hollow.”
1887 –Boris Karloff, The one and only King of the Monsters whose films include “Frankenstein [1931],” “The Raven [1963],” “Black Sabbath,” “Bride of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy [1932],” “The Ghoul,” “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “The Body Snatcher,” “Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff,” “The Walking Dead [1936],” “Isle of the Dead” and many more.
DIED ON NOVEMBER 23
2020 – Abby Dalton, actress in “Prank.”
2019 – Asunción Balaguer, actress in “Exorcism’s Daughter” and “The Baby’s Room.”
2012 – Larry Hagman, appeared in “Beware! The Blob.”
2010 – Ingrid Pitt, the voluptuous star of “The Asylum,” “The Wicker Man,” “The House That Dripped Blood,” “Countess Dracula” and “The Vampire Lovers.”
2003 – Jack Pollexfen, writer/director/producer film work includes “The Indestructible Man,” “The Atomic Brain,” “Son of Dr. Jekyll” and “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll.”
2002 – Dick Stilwell who appeared in the films “Mimic 2” and “Beneath Loch Ness.”
1995 – Louis Malle, director & writer for “Black Moon” and “Spirits of the Dead.”
1992 – Rita Corday, starred in the films “The Body Snatcher” and “The Black Castle”.
1991 – Klaus Kinski, actor in “Nosferatu [1979],” “Vampire of Venice,” “Creature With the Blue Hand,” Crawlspace” and “Count Dracula.”
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 23
The Return of Doctor X [1939] – New York City
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein [1957]
Zaat [1971] – Tampa
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf [1973]
Zombie Beach Party [2003]
[Rec] [2007]
Boar [2017] – Monster Fest, Australia
Ugly Sweater Party [2018] – Internet
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NOVEMBER 24
BORN ON NOVEMBER 24
1990 – Sarah Hyland, appeared in “Vampire Academy,” “Scary Movie 5” and “Monster Heroes.”
1978 – Katherine Heigl, appeared in “Bride of Chucky.”
1964 – Brian T. Jaynes, producer for “Dead Sea,” “Boggy Creek,” “The Shadow People,” “Humans vs Zombies,” “The Black Dahlia Haunting” and “Entity.”
1964 – Jim Van Bebber, directed “Deadbeat at Dawn,” “The Manson Family” and more.
1964 – Garret Dillahunt, starred in the series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and the 2009 remake of “Last House on the Left.”
1963 – Debra Lamb, appeared in “The American Scream,” “Beverly Hills Vamp,” “The Invisible Maniac”, “The G-string Horror” and more.
1960 – Amanda Wyss, appeared in “To Die For” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street [1984].”
1957 – Denise Crosby, starred in “Pet Sematary,” “Dolly Dearest,” “Born,” “The Watcher,” “Mutant Species,” “Relative Fear” and “Mortuary.”
1916 – Forrest J. Ackerman, appeared in “The Howling,” “Dead Alive,” “King Kong [1976],” “Return of the Living Dead II,” “Michael Jackson: Thriller,” “Queen of Blood,” and many more.
1913 – Howard Duff, appeared in “Monster in the Closet”.
1888 – Rudolph Klein-Rogge, appeared in the film “Metropolis” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari.”
DIED ON NOVEMBER 24
2020 – Montserrat Carulla, actress in “The Orphanage.”
2019 – Nimish Pilankar, sound department for “Bhram.”
2019 – Joan Staley, actress in “Cape Fear [1962],” “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” and an episode of “The Munsters.”
2005 – Pat Morita, appeared in the films “When Time Ran Out,” “Full Moon High” and “King Cobra.”
2002 – Noel Regney, composed the music scores for the films “The Flesh Eaters,” “Gremlins,” and episodes of “American Horror Story.” He composed “Do You Hear What I Hear” a famous & popular Christmas Song which plays in this video from “Gremlins.”
1990 – Robb White, wrote such screenplays for “13 Ghosts,” “House on Haunted Hill [1959]” and “The Tingler.”
1977 – Richard Carlson, starred in “It Came From Outer Space,” “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” and “The Valley of Gwangi”.
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 24
Crowhaven Farm [1970] – TV Movie
Of Unknown Origin [1983]
The Toxic Avenger III: The Last Temptation of Toxie [1989]
Puppet Master 4 [1993] – video premiere
Blood Moon Rising [2009]
Fear Level [2017] – Salt Lake City
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NOVEMBER 25
BORN ON NOVEMBER 25
1986 – Katie Cassidy, appeared in “Black Christmas [2006],” “A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010],” “Supernatural” and “The Scribbler.”
1985 – Haley Webb, appeared in “Final Destination.”
1966 – Billy Burke, actor in “Lights Out” and “Red Riding Hood.”
1964 –Robert Kurtzman, makeup effects whiz for “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Doctor Sleep,” “Scream,” “It Follows,” “House on Haunted Hill [1999],” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Vampires,” “Evil Dead II,” “Army of Darkness,” “Ma,” “All Cheerleaders Die,” “The Funhouse Massacre,” “Shark Lake,” and many more.
1955 – Bruno Tonioli, art director for “Grizzly II: The Revenge.”
1947 – John Larroquette, the narrator at the beginning of the original “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and also appeared in “Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight”.
1920 – Ricardo Montalban, appeared in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1919 – Steve Brodie, appeared in “The Giant Spider Invasion,” “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,” “Frankenstein Island,” “Donovan’s Brain” as well as episodes of “Thriller” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
DIED ON NOVEMBER 25
2020 – Chuck Bail, actor in “The House of Seven Corpses” and stuntman in “Werewolves on Wheels” and an episode of the TV Series “Thriller.”
2020 – Flor Silvestre, appeared in “The Mark of Satan,” “The Headless Horseman,” “The Head of Pancho Villa” and “Taste of Blood.”
2016 – Ron Glass, appeared in “Deep Space” and an episode of “The Twilight Zone.
1997 – Charles Hallahan, character actor who appeared in “Things That Go Bump,” “Warlock: The Armageddon,” “Cast a Deadly Spell,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Nightwing” and “The Thing.”
1982 – Bob Kelljan, directed “Scream, Blacula Scream,” “Count Yorga” and “The Return of Count Yorga,”.
1981 – Jack Albertson, appeared in “Dead and Buried” and “Man of a Thousand Faces.”
1973 – Laurence Harvey, appeared in “Night Watch,” “Welcome to Arrow Beach,” “House of Darkness,” episodes of the TV Series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Night Gallery.”
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 25
The Ghoul [1933]
Necromancy [1972] – re-release
Dark Places [1974] – West Germany
The Wind [1986]
Cheerleader Autopsy [2003]
ThanXgiving [2006]
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NOVEMBER 26
BORN ON NOVEMBER 26
1973 – Peter Facinelli, who appeared in “Countdown,” “Supernova,” “The Damned,” “Hollow Man II” and producer for “Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word.”
1973 – Kristin Bauer, appeared in the HBO series “True Blood,” “Eli Roth’s History of Horror,” “The Boy Behind the Door” and “Sacred Lies – TV Series.”
1970 – Lorissa McComas, appeared in “Piranha [1995],” “Vamps,” “The Bare Wench Project,” “Raptor” and more.
1944 – Michael Gregory, appeared in “Lawnmower Man,” “Nomads,” “Ghosts,” “Sublime,” “Fangs,” episodes of the TV Series “Freddy’s Nightmares” and more.
1943 – Jerry Jameson, directed “The Bat People” and the TV Movie “Hotline.”
1942 – Marianne McAndrew, starred in “The Bat People.”
1939 – Mark Margolis, appeared in “End of Days,” “The Pit and the Pendulum [1991],” “Christmas Evil,” “Headspace,” episodes of the TV Series “American Horror Story,” “Constantine” and more.
1933 – Robert Goulet, appeared in “Beetlejuice.”
1929 – Betta St. John, starred in “Horror Hotel” and “Corridors of Blood.”
1888 – Robert Strange, appeared in the film “Mad Monster,” and “Zombies of the Stratosphere.”
DIED ON NOVEMBER 26
2020 – Daria Nicolodi, actress in “Deep Red,” Suspiria [1977],” “Inferno,” “Tenebrae,” “Phenomena,” “Delirium,” “Paganini Horror,” “The Sect,” “All the Colors of Giallo” and more.
2019 – Vittorio Congia, appeared in “The Cat o’ Nine Tails.”
2006 – Renee Harmon, starred in the films “Frozen Scream” and Night of Terror”.
1992 – Philip Leakey, makeup artist who worked on many Hammer Films including “The Quatermass Xperiment,” “X: The Unknown,” “The Curse of Frankenstein,” “The Abominable Snowman,” “Horror of Dracula,” “The Revenge of Frankenstein” and many more.
1980 – Rachel Roberts, appeared in “When a Stranger Calls,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “Night Gallery – TV Series,” “The Reckoning” and more.
1976 – Marcel Delgado, worked on many of the miniatures used on such films as King Kong [1933], “Mighty Joe Young,” “Son of Kong” and the 1925 silent classic, “Lost World,”.
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 26
Alien: Resurrection [1997]
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon [2002] – video premiere
The Haunted Mansion [2003]
Bleed with Me [2020] – Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival
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NOVEMBER 27
BORN ON NOVEMBER 27
1983 – Sabine Crossen, appeared in an episode of the TV Series “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Six Hot Chicks in a Warehouse.”
1975 – Brice Kennedy, appeared in “Splatter Beach,” “Black Mass,” “Razorteeth,” “NightThirst,” “Peter Rottentail,” “Blood Red Planet” and “Hellgate: The House That Screamed 2.”
1963 – Fisher Stevens, appeared in the film “The Burning.”
1954 – Kimmy Roberstson, appeared in the films “My Mom’s a Werewolf” and “Leprechaun 2.”
1953 – Deborah Winters, appeared in “The Outing,” “Blue Sunshine” and the TV Movie “Tarantulas: The Dead Cargo.”
1949 – Gerrit Graham, starred in “Phantom of the Paradise,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud” and “Child’s Play 2.”
1937 – Stewart Moss, starred in “The Bat People” and “Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls.”
1930 – John Dullaghan, starred in “Garden of the Dead,” “Terror at Orgy Castle” and “Sex and the Single Vampire.”
1925 – Marshall Thompson, starred in “Fiend Without a Face” and “It the Terror from Beyond Space”.
DIED ON NOVEMBER 27
2020 – Parviz Poorhosseini, appeared in “The Spell” and “Leila’s Dream.”
2020 – Dave Prowse, appeared in “The Horror of Frankenstein,” “Vampire Circus,” “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell,” as well as the TV Movies “Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror” and “The 100 Greatest Scary Moments.”
2019 – Godfrey Gao, appeared in “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.”
2019 – Bala Singh, appeared in “Bhoot Bangla.”
2011 – Ken Russell, director of “The Lair of the White Worm,” “Gothic,” “Altered States,” “The Devils” and more.
2010 – Irvin Kershner, directed “Eyes of Laura Mars,” “Never Say Never Again” and “Robocop 2.”
2002 – Billie Bird, appeared in “Werewolf – Episode: Amazing Grace.”
1988 – John Carradine, who played role of “Dracula” in such Universal classics as “House of Frankenstein” and “House of Dracula”. He started at Universal playing bit parts in such films as “The Black Cat,” “The Invisible Man,” and “Bride of Frankenstein.”
FILMS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 27
The Undying Monster [1942]
The Living Ghost [1942]
Daikaijû Gamera [1965]
Illusion of Blood [1968]
Frankenstein Island [1981] – Kokomo, Indiana
Dollman [1991] – video premiere
The Crucible [1996]
They [2002]
Species III [2004]
Shapeshifter [2005]
Bled White [2009] – Tabloid Witch Awards
Life Blood [2009] – Germany
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