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Born on this day in horror history – February 4

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February 4

1971 – Rob Corddry, has appeared in “Warm Bodies” and “Hell Baby”.

1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, who plays “Fiona” on the TV series “Burn Notice.” She starred in the films “Body Snatchers,” “The Grave” and the TV movies “The Ripper” and “Mysterious Island.”

1960 – Jenette Goldstein, wonderful character actor who has appeared in “Aliens”, “Near Dark”, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”, “Autopsy”, and more.

1960 – Adrienne King, who played “Alice” in “Friday the 13th” and “Friday the 13th Part 2.”

1951 – Patrick Bergin, who starred in the films “Highway to Hell,” “Ghostwood,” “Lawnmower Man 2,” the TV movie “The Ripper” and the 2002 TV mini-series, “Dracula.”

1948 – Vincent Damon Furnierbetter known as horror rocker Alice Cooper. He did the title song for the film “Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives,” and his music has appeared in such films as “Scream,” “The Faculty” and the 2007 version of “Halloween.” He took a turn as an actor in the films “Monster Dog,” “Prince of Darkness” and “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare” where he played “Freddy’s father.”

1944 – Toshio Kurosawa, who starred in the films “Evil of Dracula,” “Blood Snow” and “Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus.”

1940 – The Godfather of the Dead and creator of the modern zombie, George A. Romero.  He directed  “Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Day of the Dead,” “Land of the Dead,” “Diary of ther Dead” and “Survival of the Dead”.

1938 – Gary Conway who played the title role in “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” and also starred in “How To Make a Monster” and “The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent.” He also starred as “Captain Steve Burton” in the TV series “Land Of The Giants.”

1914 – Ida Lupino, who appeared in the films “The Devil’s Rain” and “The Food of the Gods.”

1912 – James Craig, who appeared in the films “The Cyclops,” “Ghost Diver” and “The Doomsday Machine.”

1895 – Nigel Bruce, best known for his series of portrayals of “Dr. Watson” in many Sherlock Holmes thriller films including “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, “Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror”, “The Spider Woman”, “Terror by Night” and many more.

Rob Coddry
Rob Corddry
Jeanette Goldstein
Jeanette Goldstein
Adrienne King
Adrienne King
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
George A. Romero
George A. Romero
Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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