In life, death aka the Grim Reaper stalks us all, no one can beat this hunter, many of us either mark our flesh with his image or have his likeness on our walls, desks, and shelves, all to force us to strive forward, knowing it seeks us out at some point. As many artists want accolades and glory, just enough to be remembered, The Horror Times recognizes their contributors to this great genre each month.
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JUNE 1
Philippe Leroy
October 15, 1930 – June 1, 2024
Actor:
The Castle of the Living Dead [1964]
The Possessed [1965]
Naked Girl Murdered in the Park [1972]
Il medium [1980]
Mother of Tears [2007]
JUNE 2
Jeannette Charles
October 15, 1927 – June 2, 2024
Actress:
Queen Kong [1976]
JUNE 3
Armando Silvestre
January 28, 1926 – June 3, 2024
Actor:
Santo vs. the Zombies [1962]
Doctor of Doom [1963]
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy [1964]
The Bat Woman [1968]
Night of the Bloody Apes [1969]
Betty Anne Rees
April 14, 1943 – June 3, 2024
Actress:
Deathmaster [1972]
Sugar Hill [1974]
The Photographer [1974]
Mark D. Ross – aka “Brother Marquis”
April 2, 1967 – June 3, 2024
Soundtrack:
Idle Hands “Pop The Coochie” [1999]
The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 “Me So Horny” [2021]
William Russell
November 19, 1924 – June 3, 2024
Actor:
Terror [1978]
Armchair Thriller – S2, E7&8 [1980]
Jan Schmid
June 14, 1936 – June 3, 2024
Actor:
Ferat Vampire [1982]
JUNE 4
Nicholas Ball
April 11, 1946 – June 4, 2024
Actor:
Hammer House of Horror – S1.E5 [1980]
Spooky – S1.E3 [1983]
Tales of the Unexpected – S9.E7 [1988]
Urban Gothic – S1.E11
Lifeforce [1985]
Hellboy [2004]
Doom Room [2013]
Surgery [2015] – Short
Muse [2019]
Pentagram [2019]
The Haunting of Pendle Hill [2022]
Hubert Taczanowski
October 1, 1960 – June 4, 2024
Cinematographer:
Deathwatch [2002]
My Little Eye [2002]
JUNE 8
Francis Zambon – aka “Mark James”
November 29, 1940 – June 8, 2024
Soundtrack/Writer:
Army of the Dead – “Suspicious Minds” [2021]
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – Suspicious Minds” [2021]
JUNE 9
Yoshiko Kuga
January 21, 1931 – June 9, 2024
Actress:
Godzilla vs. Biollante [1989]
JUNE 11
Tony Lo Bianco
October 19, 1936 – June 11, 2024
Director:
Too Scared to Scream [1984]
Actor:
God Told Me To [1976]
The Twilight Zone – S1.E5 [1985]
Endangered Species [2002]
JUNE 12
Fermí Reixach
August 21, 1946 – June 12, 2024
Actor:
Faust [2000]
Darkness [2002]
Apartment 143 [2001]
The Zone – S1.E1 & 2 – 2017]
JUNE 15
Erik Canuel
January 21, 1961 – June 15, 2024
Director:
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (2002)
The Hunger – 3 episodes (1997-1999)
Big Wolf on Campus – 11 episodes (1999-2002)
Being Human – 2 episodes (2011)
JUNE 16
Evans Evans
November 26, 1932 – June 16, 2024
Actress:
Prophecy [1979]
The Twilight Zone – S2.E23 [1961]
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – S1.E4 [1962]
JUNE 18
Anthea Sylbert
October 6, 1939 – June 18, 2024
Costume Designer:
Rosemary’s Baby [1968]
The Illustrated Man [1969]
King Kong [976]
CJ de Silva
August 1, 1987 – June 18, 2024
Graphic Designer/Colorist/Production Manager:
San Lazaro (2011)
Armando “Bing” Lao
September 6, 1948 – June 18, 2024
Writer:
Dear Diary [1989]
Butchered [2009] – story
The Strangers [2012] – story
Creative Consultant:
Missing [2013] – short
Sapi [2013]
JUNE 19
Katsue Miwa
October 12, 1943 – June 19, 2024
Voice Actress:
Monster Kid (1980-1982) – TV Series
Iria: Zeiram the Bounty Hunter (1994) – TV Mini Series
Kurayami Santa (2015) – TV Series
JUNE 20
Donald Sutherland
July 17. 1935 – June 20, 2024
Actor:
The Castle of the Living Dead [1964]
Die! Die! My Darling! [1965]
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors [1965]
The Shuttered Room [1967]
Don’t Look Now [1973]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978]
Apprentice to Murder [1992]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer [1992]
The Puppet Masters [1994]
Natural Enemy [1996]
Virus [1999]
Frankenstein [2004] – TV Mini Series
Salem’s Lot [2004] – TV Mini Series
An American Haunting [2005]
Puffball: The Devil’s Eyeball [2007]
The Calling [2014]
Alone [2020]
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone [2022]
Taylor Wily
June 14, 1968 – June 20, 2024
Actor:
Radical [2017]
JUNE 23
Bud S. Smith
December 6, 1935 – June 23, 2024
Editor:
The Exorcist [1973] – Iraq Sequence
Cat People [1982]
Poltergeist II: The Other Side [1986]
Darkman [1990]
Christina’s House [2000]
Producer:
Virus [1999]
Driftwood [2006]
JUNE 24
Seth ‘Shifty Shellshock’ Binzer
August 23, 1974 – June 24, 2024
Actor:
Dead 7 [2016]
JUNE 25
Bill Cobbs
June 16, 1934 – June 25, 2024
Actor:
The People Under the Stairs [1991]
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1998]
The Outer Limits – 2 episodes [1997-1999]
The Others [2000] – TV Series
The Final Patient [2005]
The Morgue [2008]
The Tenant [2010]
Vampires in Venice [2013]
A House is Not a Home [2015]
Caroltyn [2022]
JUNE 26
Gary Grant
? – June 26, 2024
Music Department/Trumpet:
Predator [1987]
Hocus Pocus [1993]
What Lies Beneath [2000]
Renauld White
February 1, 1944 – June 26, 2024
Actor:
Central Park [2017]
JUNE 27
Martin Mull
August 18, 1943 – June 27, 2024
Actor:
Cutting Class [1989]
Danny Phantom [2003-2007] – TV Series
Kinky Friedman
November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024
Actor:
The Being [1981]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986]
Zombex [2013]
Soundtrack:
The Being “Sold American” “Western Union Wire” [1981]
JUNE 28
Txema Blasco
July 13, 1941 – June 28, 2024
Actor:
Last Night I Dreamed That You Had Died [2000] – Short
The White Room [2000] – TV Movie
The Refuge of Evil [2002]
Witches Pact [2003]
Sleep [2005]
8 [2011] – Shorts
JUNE 30
Ileana Stana Ionescu
September 14, 1936 – June 30, 2024
Actress:
Bloodlust: Subspecies III [1994]