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Born on this day in horror history – June 11

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June 11

1988 – Claire Holt, appeared in “Messengers 2: The Scarecrow” and portrays one of “The Others” in “The Vampire Diaries”.

1986 – Shia LaBeouf, who starred in “Disturbia,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and the “Transformer” films.

1978 – Joshua Jackson who co-starred in the films “Shutter” (2008), “Cursed” and “Urban Legend.” He stars as “Peter Bishop” on the wonderfully warped TV series, “Fringe.”

1945 – Adrienne Barbeau who was once married to John Carpenter and appeared in the films “The Fog” “Creepshow” and “Escape From New York.” If you listen real closely you might recognize her as the voice of the computer in John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”

1933 – Gene Wilder, who starred in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother,” “Haunted Honeymoon” and of course “Young Frankenstein.” He also played an undertaker in the film “Bonnie & Clyde.”

1922 – John Bromfield who appeared in the films “Curucu, Beast of the Amazon,” “Manfish” (with Lon Chaney Jr.) and “Revenge of the Creature.”

1919 – Richard Todd who appeared in the films “House of the Long Shadows,” “Bloodbath” and “Asylum”

1915 – Buddy Baer (brother of Max “Jethro” Baer) who appeared in the films “Giant From the Unknown,” “Africa Screams” and “Snow White and the Three Stooges.”

1914 – Dudley Manlove who appeared in “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and “Creation of the Humanoids.”

1914 – Gerald Mohr who starred in the films “The Angry Red Planet,” “The Monster and the Girl” and in the 60’s, provided the voice of “Reed Richards” in the original “Fantastic Four” cartoon series and the voice of “Green Lantern” in the “Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.”

1909 – Paul Schreibman who produced the American versions of “First Spaceship On Venus” and “Gigantis the Fire Monster.”

Claire Holt
Claire Holt
Adrienne Barbeau
Adrienne Barbeau
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder

 

Michael Juvinall

I am a Horror journalist, producer, ravenous Horror fiend, aficionado of the classic Universal Monsters, Hammer Horror, Werewolves, and all things Horror.

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