1976 – Naomie Harris, who appeared in “28 Days Later” and played “Tia” in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”
1974 – Justin Whalin, portrayed “Andy Barclay” in “Child’s Play 3.” He also appeared in “Eerie, Indiana (TV Series)”, “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series)”, and “The House That Jack Built.”
1972 – Idris Elba, who starred in the 2008 remake of “Prom Night,” “The Unborn”, “Thor”, “Pacific Rim”, “Prometheus.”
1963 – Betsy Russell, who plays “Jigsaw’s” ex-wife “Jill Tuck” in the “Saw” films and also starred in “Unearthed.”
1953 – Anne Lockhart, daughter of June, who has appeared in the films “Troll,” “Dark Tower” and the original “Battlestar Galactica” TV series.
1949 – Tommy Lee Wallace, writer/director of such films as “Vampires: Los Muertos”, “It (TV Mini-Series)”, “Fright Night Part 2”, “Halloween III: Season of the Witch.”
1934 – The late Paul Naschy aka Jacinto Molina, his character “Waldemar Daninsky” was in a series of films in which he portrayed a werewolf and who was known as the Spanish Lon Chaney because he portrayed all of the classic monsters in films like “Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror”, “Las noches del Hombre Lobo”, “Assignment Terror”, “The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman”, “La furia del Hombre Lobo”, “Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo”, “Count Dracula’s Great Love”, “Horror Rises from the Tomb”, “Vengeance of the Zombies”, “The Mummy’s Revenge” and that is just a small sampling of his films.
1891 – Rowland V. Lee, who directed “The Return of Fu Manchu,” “Son of Frankenstein” and “Tower of London.”
1879 – Max Schreck, portrayed “Graf Orlok” in the silent film classic “Nosferatu.”
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