JANUARY 29
BORN ON JANUARY 29
1986 – Jennifer Churchich starred in “Quadrant 9EV9” and “The Sand.”
1970 – Heather Graham, actress in “Scream 2,” “From Hell,” “Blessed,” “Terrified,” as well as episodes of the TV Series “The Stand” and “Outer Limits.”
1968 – Bobbie Phillips, appeared in “Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain” and “Carnival of Souls”.
1968 – Edward Burns, actor in “One Missed Call” and “A Sound of Thunder.”
1954 – Terry Kinney, actor in “Don’t Look Down” and “Body Snatchers.”
1948 – Marc Singer, starred in “Dead Space,” “Watchers II,” “High Desert Kill” and the TV Series “V.”
1948 – Wade Popwell, played The Monster in the film “Zaat.”
1945 – Kathryn Leigh Scott, starred as “Maggie Evans” on the tv-show “Dark Shadows.”
1940 – Astrid Heeren, starred in “Silent Night, Bloody Night.”
1940 – Katharine Ross, starred in “The Stepford Wives [1975],” “The Legacy,” “The Swarm” and “Donnie Darko.”
1938 – Brian Taggert, writer for “Omen IV,” “Poltergeist III,” “Of Unknown Origin,” “Visiting Hours,” and more.
1935 – Akira Ishihama, actor in “Day-Dream” and “The Snow Woman.”
1931 – Bunty Webb, actress in “Deadline,” “Deadly Eyes,” “Curtains,” “American Nightmare” and an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
1915 – Victor Mature, starred in the film “One Million B.C.”
1909 – Alan Marshall, appeared in “House on Haunted Hill [1959]” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939].”
1887 – Charles Irwin, appeared in “Kingo” and “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.”
DIED ON JANUARY 29
2022 – Howard Hesseman, actor in “Halloween II [2009],” “Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo,” “Bigfoot,” “A Helping Hand – Short,” as well as episodes of “The Outer Limits” and “The Ray Bradbury Theater.”
2022 – Leonard Fenton, actor in “Panic” and “Zombie Diaries.”
2022 – Jo Kendall, appeared in “The Uninvited – Episode: Episode #1.2.”
2022 – Pete Smith, appeared in “Pandemonium” and “Mataku – Episode: The Final Plume.”
2012 – John Rich, director of 2 episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
2004 – Andrew J. Kuehn, producer/director of the film “Terror in The Aisles.”
1986 – Leif Erickson starred in “Strait-Jacket,” “I Saw What You Did” and Invaders from Mars [1953].
1976 – Michael Gwynn, appeared in “Scars of Dracula,” “Revenge of Frankenstein,” and “Village of the Damned”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 29
Children of the Damned [1964]
Venom [1981]
Nekromantik [1988] – Berlin – premiere
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama [1988]
Lobster Man from Mars [1989]
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice [1992]
Nemesis [1992]
Matinee [1993]
American Nightmare [2002]
Chupacabra Terror [2005]
Deadline [2009]
Warm Bodies [2013] – Hollywood – premiere
Trashploitation [2018]
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JANUARY 30
BORN ON JANUARY 30
1990 – Jake Thomas, appeared in “The Cell,” “The Unwilling,” “Dinocroc” and “Monster Night.”
1974 – Christian Bale, producer for “The Pale Blue Eye” and starred in “American Psycho.”
1970 – Minnie Driver, starred in “Stage Fright” and the short “Laboratory Conditions.”
1965 – Julie McCullough, appeared in “The Blob [1988],” “Gila!,” and “Sharknado”.
1959 – Dwier Brown, appeared in “Red Dragon,” “The Guardian [1990],” “House,” “House II: The Second Story” and more.
1951 – Charles Dutton, starred in “Aliens 3,” “Gothika” and “Legion.”
1935 – Elsa Martinelli, starred in “Blood and Roses.”
1930 – Gene Hackman, played the “Old Blind Hermit” in “Young Frankenstein.”
1914 – John Ireland, appeared in “The Incubus,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “Waxwork II: Lost in Time,” “Terror Night,” “The House of Seven Corpses,” “The Graveyard Story” and more.
1911 – Hugh Marlowe, starred in “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “World Without End.”
1910 – James Carreras, the founder of Hammer Films and was the executive in charge of production for “The Curse of Frankenstein.”
DIED ON JANUARY 30
2022 – John William Galt, actor in “Look Who’s Toxic,” “Headless at the Fair – short,” “The Fanglys,” “Davy Crockett Battles Kung Fu Vampires,” as well as the video games “Nocturne” and “Prey.”
2022 – Paul Kelman, actor in “My Blood Valentine [1981],” “Black Roses ,” “Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film” and “My Bloody Valentine 40th Anniversary.”
2022 – Leonid Kuravlyov, appeared in “Viy” and the TV Series “Little Tragedies.”
2022 – Calvin Remsberg, appeared in an episode of “The X-Files” and soundtrack for the TV Movie version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [1982].”
2021 – Allan Burns, writer for the TV Series “The Munsters,” “The Munsters Revenge,” “Here Come The Munsters,” “The Munsters Scary Little Christmas,” What Happened to Eddie Munster” and “Mockingbird Lane.”
2021 – Sophie Xeon, directed “Sophie: Ponyboy” and “Sophie: Faceshopping.”
2019 – Richard “Dick” Miller – actor in “The Terminator,” “Gremlins,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch,” “The Howling,” “Piranha,” “Night of the Creeps,” “Amityville 1992: It’s About Time,” “Route 666,” “Burying the Ex,” “Chopping Mall,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Hanukkah,” episodes of “100 Years of Horror” and many more
2019 – Louisa Moritz, actress in “New Year’s Evil.”
2006 – William B. Jurgensen, cinematographer for “Arnold [1973]” and “Terror in the Wax Museum.”
1999 – Huntz Hall, who played “Sach” of the Bowery Boys, “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts on the Loose.”
1998 – Ferdy Mayne, starred in “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” “The Vampire Lovers” and “Frightmare.”
1997 – Heinrich Starhemberg, actor in “Trauma [1978],” “Rostros,” “The Dracula Saga” and “Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf.”
1973 – Jack MacGowran, appeared in “The Brain [1964],” “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” and “The Exorcist.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 30
The Silent Scream [1980]
To All a Goodnight [1980]
The Incredible Shrinking Woman [1981]
Monster In The Closet [1986]
Silence Of The Lambs [1991]
Deep Rising [1998]
Dead End [2003] – Gerardmer Film Festival – France
Final Destination 2 [2003]
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed [2004]
The Temptress [2003]
Freakshow [2007]
Prey [2007]
The Uninvited [2009]
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JANUARY 31
BORN ON JANUARY 31
1999 – Lily Mo Sheen, appeared in “Underworld: Evolution.”
1973 – Portia de Rossi, appeared in “Cursed,” “Stigmata” and “Dead and Breakfast.”
1971 – Patricia Velasquez, appeared in “The Mummy [1999],” “The Mummy Returns” and “Mindhunters.”
1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, starred in “Annabelle: Creation,” “Dark Whispers Vol 1,” “Black Magic,” “Innocent Blood” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
1943 – Joan McCall, starred in “Grizzly,” “Act of Vengeance” and “Devil Times Five.”
1940 – Jessica Walter, starred in “Play Misty For Me,” “Vampire” and also appeared in “Ghost in the Machine,” “Temptress” and the TV Movie “Home for the Holidays.”
1940 – Stuart Margolin, appeared in the TV Movie “The California Kid” as well as episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “The Ray Bradbury Theater” and “Strange Frequency.”
1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, co-starred in “The Power,” “The Birds,” and episodes of the TV Series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1929 – Jean Simmons, appeared in Dark Shadows [1990] and “Howl’s Moving Castle.”
1929 – Andy Milligan, “The Ghastly Ones,” “Bloodthristy Butchers” and “The Rats Are Coming, The Werewolves Are Here.”
1925 – Anthony Newlands, appeared in “Scream and Scream Again,” “Psycho-Circus” and an episode of “Thriller [1974].”
1923 – Larry Buchanan, wrote and directed “Zontar, the Thing from Venus,” “The Eye Creatures” and “Curse of the Swamp Creature.”
1922 – William Sylvester, actor in “Gorgo,” “Devil Doll,” “Devils of Darkness,” “Beast of Morocco” and the TV Movie “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”
1921 –John Agar, starred in “The Brain From Planet Arous,” “Revenge of the Creature” and “Tarantula.”
1911 – Eddie Byrne, appeared in the films “Jack the Ripper” and “Island of Terror.”
1956 – Isham Jones, music/songwriter for “The Passing,” “I’ll See You In My Dreams” and “A Fantastic Fear of Everything.”
DIED ON JANUARY 31
2022 – Carleton Carpenter, actor in “The Prowler [1981].”
2022 – Ekkehardt Belle, actor in “Dracula Blows His Cool.”
2021 – Andrej Hryc, appeared in “Freckled Max and the Spooks,” “Darkness,” “Frankenstein’s Aunt – TV Series” and “Frankenstein [2004] – TV Series.”
2020 – Mary Higgins Clark, author of “A Stranger is Walking,” “The Cradle Will Fall,” “Stillwatch” which were made into movies.
2006 – Moira Shearer, starred in “Peeping Tom”.
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 31
Phenomena [1985]
Shock ’em Dead [1991]
Brotherhood of the Wolf [2001]
Killers 2: The Beast [2002]
Final Destination 2 [2003]
Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers [2006]
Scourge [2008] – Canada
The Spiderwicke Chronicles [2008]
Creature of Darkness [2009]
Mutants [2009] – France’s Gerardmer Film Festival
The Sleeper [2012]
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