BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 2

• 1984 – Shawn Roberts, who appeared in “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” “Diary of the Dead” and “Land of the Dead.”
• 1979 – Lindy Booth, who appeared in the films “Cry_Wolf,” the 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and “Wrong Turn.”
• 1977 – Michael Fassbender, starred in such films as “300”, “Eden Lake”, “Blood Creek”, “Centurion”, “Jonah Hex”, “X-Men: First Class”, “Prometheus” and several more.
• 1961 – Christopher Meloni, who plays “Detective Elliott Stabler” on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” He appeared in the films “Carriers,” “Twelve Monkeys” and provided the voice of “Hal Jordan/Green Lantern” for the animated film “Green Lantern: First Flight.” He has also appeared in “True Blood (TV Series)” and “Man of Steel.”
• 1952 – Debralee Scott, who appeared in the film “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud” and the TV movie “Deathmoon.” Her fiance was a NY Port Authority police officer who passed away during the 9/11 attack. She played “Rosalie Hotsy Totsy” on “Welcome Back Kotter,” where she co-starred with …..
• 1949 – Ron Palillo, better known as “Horschak” on “Welcome Back Kotter,” and who appeared in “Friday the 13th Part VI; Jason Lives” and “Trees 2: The Root of All Evil.”
• 1934 – Brian Glover who appeared in the films “An American Werewolf In London,” “Alien 3” & “The Company of Wolves.”
• 1914 – The late great Sir Alec Guinness who played “Obi-Wan Kenobi” in “Star Wars.”

Shawn Roberts

Lindy Booth

Michael Fassbender

Christopher Meloni

Ron Palillo

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DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 2

• 2015 – Tom Towles, appeared in “Rob Zombie’s Halloween”, “Grindhouse”, “The Devil’s Rejects”, “House of 1000 Corpses”, “The Borrower”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “Night of the Living Dead”, “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” and more. He passed away at the age of 65.
• 2013 – Jess Franco, Prolific Spanish jack of all trades who did it all, writer/producer/cinematographer/ and or director known for such films as “The Awful Dr. Orlof”, “Succubus”, “Count Dracula”, “Vampyros Lesbos”, “The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein”, “A Virgin Among the Living Dead”, “Zombie 5” and hundreds more. He passed away at the age of 82.
• 2002 – Henry Slesar, who wrote episodes for several TV series, including “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Twilight Zone” and the screenplays for the films “Two on a Guillotine” and “Murders In The Rue Morgue” (1971), passed away at the age of 74.
• 2002 – Jack Kruschen, who appeared in the films “Abbott & Costello Go To Mars,” “War of the Worlds” and “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” passed away at the age of 80.
• 1999 – David Oren Ward, who appeared in the films “Witchouse” and “The Killer Eye,” passed away at the age of 27.
• 1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer of numerous Godzilla films, passed away at the age of 86.
• 1937 – Edward Laemmle, nephew of Universal founder, Carl Laemmle passed away at the age of 49. He directed many films for Universal studios.

Jess Franco

Jack Kruschen

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FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 2

• Tarzan the Apeman 1932
• The Return of Dracula 1958
  Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons 1960
  Evil of Dracula 1975 released as Chi o Suu Bara in 1974
• The House of Exorcism aka Lisa and the Devil 1975
  Dario Argento’s Inferno 1980
• The Last Shark 1981
  Cat People 1982
  Silent Rage 1982
  Biker Zombies 2001
  The Frightening 2002
  Hellboy 2004
  The Monster of Phantom Lake 2006