JUNE 26
BORN ON JUNE 26
1951 – Robert Davi, appeared in “Feast of Fear,” “Sicilian Vampire,” “Swamp Shark,” “Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “Predator 2” and more.
1946 – Leo Rossi, appeared in “Mutant Species,” “Maniac Cop,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “Relentless,” “Dead On: Relentless II,” “Relentless 3,” “Halloween II [1981]” and more.
1938 – Francisco Nicholson, writer for “Satan’s Five Warnings.”
1922 – Dick Smith, Makeup effects wizard, techniques in such films as “Dark Shadows [TV Series]”, “The Exorcist”, “The Sentinel”, “Altered States”, “Ghost Story”, “Spasms,” “House on Haunted Hill [1999],” “Scanners,” and many more.
1913 – Harold F. Kress, editor for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]” and “The Swarm.”
1904 – Peter Lorre, starred in “The Comedy of Terrors,” “The Raven,” “Route 66 – TV Series,” “Tales of Terror,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “The Beast with Five Fingers” and “Mad Love”.
DIED ON JUNE 26
2021 – Fernand Guiot, appeared in the TV Movie “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
2021 – Hans Holtegaard, appeared in “The Substitute.”
2021 – John Langley, producer for “Reality Check,” “Vampire Clan” and screenwriter for “Deadly Sins.”
2021 – Johnny Solinger, soundtrack for “Blood Reunion.”
2021 – Jon Hassell, music department (trumpet) for “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” and soundtrack for One Hour Photo.”
2020 – Faqir Nabi, appeared in “Aatma.”
2020 – Kelly Adam Asbury, animation for “The Addams Family [2019]” and art department for “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
2020 – Ramon Revilla, appeared in “Pepeng Agimat,” “The Mysterious World of Elias Panik,” “Fight, Satan” and “Night of Darkness.”
2020 – Taryn Stephanie Power, actress in “The Sea Serpent.”
2020 – Stuart Cornfeld, producer for “Vamps,” “The Ruins,” “Mimic,” “The Fly [1986],” “The Fly II” and also appeared in “Ravager.”
2019 – Édith Scob, actress in “Eyes Without a Face,” “Fantasmagorie,” “The Detour,” “Brotherhood of the Wolf,” and episodes of “The Bloody Doll.”
2019 – Douglas Fielding, appeared in an episode of “Mystery and Imagination called ‘Feet Foremost’ [1968].”
2019 – George Edward Maxwell Wright, actor in various episodes of “Tales from the Darkside,” “The Stand,” and “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters [1996].”
2001 – William Bryant, appeared in “Death Scream,” “Experiment in Terror,” “It Came from Beneath the Sea” and more.
1981 – Don Megowan, appeared in “Scream of the Wolf,” “The Creation of the Humanoids,” “Tales of Frankenstein,” “The Werewolf,” “The Creature Walks Among Us” and more.
FILM RELEASED ON June 26
Machete Maidens Unleashed [2011]
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JUNE 27
BORN ON JUNE 27
1999 – Chandler Riggs, appeared in The Walking Dead – TV Series,” “Keep Watching,” “Mercy” and “Jesus H. Zombie.”
1958 – Erin Agostino, appeared in “Hemlock Grove – TV Series,” “Girl House,” “Being Human – TV Series,” “The Howling: Reborn” and “Supernatural: The Animation – TV Series.”
1979 – Eric Spudic, actor in “Land Shark,” “Dire Wolf,” “Halloween Night,” “Werewolf in a Women’s Prison,” “Clawed,” “Supercroc,” “Zombiegeddon,” “Psycho Santa,” “Dead Clowns” and more.
1978 – Courtney Ford, appeared on “True Blood – TV Series,” “The Vampire Diaries – TV Series” and “Alien Raiders.”
1966 – J.J. Abrams, producer for “Overlord,” “Cloverfield,” “10 Cloverfield Lane,” “Lovecraft Country – TV Series,” “Castle Rock – TV Series,” “Lisey’s Story,” and more.
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, appeared in “Diabolique,” “The Last Horror Film,” “Possession,” “Nosferatu: The Vampyre” and “The Tenant.”
1951 – Julia Duffy, actress in “Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker,” “Wacko” and an episode of “Scream Queens.”
1944 – Dardano Sacchetti, writer for “Demons [1985],” “Zombie,” “The Beyond,” “A Bay of Blood,” “City of the Living Dead,” “The House by the Cemetery,” “The New York Ripper,” “Killer Crocodile” and many more.
DIED ON JUNE 27
2020 – Julian Burnlee Curry, actor in “Hollow China,” “Seven Days to Live,” “Ghost Chase” and the TV Movie “The Wyvern Mystery.”
2020 – Linda Cristal, actress in “The Fiend Who Walked the West” and the TV Movie “The Dead Don’t Die.:
2019 – Vijaya Nirmala, appeared in “Bhoot Mera Saathi.”
2019 – Ben Barenholtz, starred in “Dawn of the Dead [1978]” and produced “Martin” and “Bruiser.”
1973 – Germán Valdés, starred in “Face of the Screaming Werewolf,” “Chanoc Against the Tiger and the Vampire” and “Madness of Terror.”
1973 – Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz, starred in “Mother Joan of the Angels.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JUNE 27
The Thing That Couldn’t Die [1958] – NYC
Scream Blacula Scream [1973]
Hood of Horror [2006] – Los Angeles Film Festival
Deep Evil [2004]
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JUNE 28
BORN ON JUNE 28
1979 – Felicia Day, appeared in TV shows “Supernatural” and “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
1976 – Camille Guaty, appeared in “The Exorcist – TV Series,” “The Vampire Diaries – TV Series,” “Fear Itself – TV Series,” “Love Object” and more.
1974 – Kirsty Mitchell, appeared in “Triassic Attack” and “Lake Placid 3.”
1967 – Gil Bellows, appeared in “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” “House at the End of the Street,” “Show White: A Tale of Terror,” “Extraterrestrial,” “She Creature,” “Chasing Sleep,” “Infected” and more.
1966 – John Cusack, starred in “1408”, “Cell,” “Igor” and “The Raven [2012].”
1965 – Mark Steensland, writer for “Jakob’s Wife,” “The Special,” director for the shorts “The Weeping Woman,” “Dead@17,” “Peekers,” “Lovecraft’s Pillow,” “The Ugly File” and “Sucker.”
1954 – Alice Krige, appeared in “Ghost Story,” “Haunted Summer,” “Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers,” “The Little Vampire” and “Silent Hill”.
1948 – J. Michael Riva, production designer for “Halloween II [1981],” “The Hand” and art department for “House on Haunted Hill [1999].”
1948 – Kathy Bates, starred in “My Best Friend Is a Vampire,” “Misery,” “Dolores Claiborne,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and the third season of “American Horror Story: Coven”.
1946 – Bruce Davison, appeared in “Willard [1971],” “Dahmer,” “The Dead Girl,” “Munger Road,” “Coffin,” “Return of the Killer Shrews” and “The Lords of Salem.”
1929 – Barbara Claman, appeared in “The Chill Factor,” casting department for “Grizzly II: Revenge,” “The Changeling,” “The Entity,” “976-EVIL,” “Crimewave” and the TV Movie “Cry for Strangers.”
1926 – Mel Brooks, legendary writer/producer/actor/director of “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety” and “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” with many more.
DIED ON JUNE 28
2020 – Louis Felix Danner Mahoney, actor in “The Final Conflict,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “Voodoo Blood Death” and episodes of the TV Series “Being Human.”
2014 – Meshach Taylor appeared in “Hyenas,” “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters – TV Series,” “Warning Sign,” “The Beast Within,” “The Howling,” “Damien: Omen II” and more.
2008 – Dick Beebe, writer for “House on Haunted Hill [1999],” “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2,” “Into the Badlands – TV Movie” and an episode of “Tales from the Crypt.”
2000 – Michael Ripper, appeared in almost every Hammer film include “X: The Unknown,” “The Revenge of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,” “The Brides of Dracula,” “The Curse of the Werewolf,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “The Creeping Flesh” and many more.
1975 – Rod Serling, writer/producer/director and legend worked on such films and TV shows as “Twilight Zone,” and “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery”.
FILMS RELEASED ON JUNE 28
The Unearthly [1957]
Beginning of the End [1957]
L.A. Slasher [2015]
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JUNE 29
BORN ON JUNE 29
1991 – Addison Timlin, appeared in “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” “Odd Thomas,” “Depraved” and “Like Me.”
1982 – Lily Rabe, starred in “American Horror Story – 2nd season,” “The Whispers – TV Series” and “The Veil.”
1967 – Melora Hardin, appeared in “Caged,” “Drive Thru,” “Falling Skies – TV Series” and more.
1957 – Maria Conchita Alonso, appeared in “Vampire’s Kiss,” “Predator 2,″ “The Dead One,” “Dark Moon Rising” and “The Lords of Salem”.
1944 – Gary Busey, appeared in “Hex,” “Silver Bullet,” “Predator 2,″ “The Gingerdead Man” and “Piranha 3DD”.
1920 – Ray Harryhausen, the stop motion effects legend who worked on films as “Mighty Joe Young,” “It Came from Beneath the Sea,” “20 Million Miles to Earth” and many more.
1919 – Slim Pickens, western star one lone venture in “The Howling”.
1911 – Bernard Herrmann, film composer scored such films as “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, “Psycho”, “Mysterious Island”, “Twilight Zone” and countless others.
1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, starred in “The Wolf Man” and “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”.
DIED ON JUNE 29
2021 – Stuart Damon, appeared in the TV Movie “Fantasies” and an episode of “Thriller.”
2021 – Alí Humar, director of “Lola Calamidades – aka Lola Calamities.”
2020 – Carl Reiner, appeared in an episode of “Night Gallery [1971].”
2020 – John Alfred Mandel, worked on the soundtrack for “Anatomy 2.”
2008 – Don S. Davis, appeared in “Watchers,” “Needful Things,” “Beneath” and “The Uninvited”.
2009 – Jan Rubes, appeared in “The Kiss,” “Nightmare Man,” “The Amityville Curse” and episodes of “The X-Files”.
1997 – William Hickey, appeared in “The Maddening,” “The Outer Limits – TV Series,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” The Runestone,” “Tales from the Darkside: The Movie,” “Tales from the Crypt – TV Series,” “Puppet Master,” “Tales from the Darkside – TV Series” and “The Sentinel”.
1978 – Bob Crane, appeared in “Night Gallery – TV Series,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – TV Series,” “Twilight Zone – TV Series” and more.
FILMS RELEASED ON JUNE 29
The Amazing Mr. X [1948]
Empire of the Ants [1977] – NYC
Arachnid [2001]
War of the Worlds [2005]
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JUNE 30
BORN ON JUNE 30
1982 – Lizzy Caplan starred in “Cloverfield” and appeared on the TV Series “True Blood” and “Castle Rock.”
1971 – Monica Potter, starred in “Saw,” and “Last House on the Left [2009].”
1966 – Marton Csokas, appeared in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” “Evilenko” and an episode of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.”
1966 – Peter Outerbridge, appeared in “Shut In,” “Land of the Dead,” “Silent Hill: Revelation,” “Saw VI,” “Population 436,” as well as episodes of TV Series “V-Wars,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Nightmare Café,” “Millennium,” “The Outer Limits,” “Forever Knight” and more.
1959 – Vincent D’Onofrio appeared in “Ed Wood,” “The Thirteen Floor” and “Jurassic World.”
1936 – Nancy Dussault, actress in “The Nurse.”
1936 – Tony Musante, starred in “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.”
1905 – Nestor Paiva, appeared in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939],” “Mighty Joe Young,” “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” and “Revenge of the Creature.”
1899 – Madge Bellamy who appeared in “White Zombie.”
DIED ON JUNE 30
2020 – Dan Hicks, actor in “Army of Darkness,” “Evil Dead II,” “Wishmaster,” “Porkchop,” “The Demonologist,” “Maniac Cop,” “The Blood Hunter,” “2001 Maniacs,” “My Name Is Bruce” and more.
1999 – Shane Dixon, who performed the stunts for “They Live,” “Village of the Damned,” “Species II,” “ Night of the Demon,” “The Night Stalker,” and more.
1987 – King Donavan, appeared in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and “The Magnetic Monster”.
1980 – Thomas Browne Henry, appeared in “How to Make a Monster,” “The Thing That Couldn’t Die,” “Blood of Dracula,” “The Brain from Planet Arous,” “20 Million Miles to Earth,” “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and more.
FILMS RELEASED ON JUNE 30
Strangers on a Train [1951]
The Monster of the Opera [1964]
Postmortem [1998] – USA video premiere
The Final Curtain [2007]
Fear Girls: Volume 2 [2009]
Killer Shorts [2009]
Second Coming [2009]
The Garbage Man [2009]
Flight of the Living Dead [2007] – Los Angeles Film Festival
Caesar and Otto’s Deadly Xmas [2012]
Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 [2013]
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