BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MARCH 31

1985 – Jessica Szohr, appeared in “House at the End of the Drive”, “Love Bite” and “Piranha 3D.”
1983 – Melissa Ordway, has appeared in “Odd Thomas”, “Channeling” and “Ghost Phone: Phone Calls from the Dead.”
1979 – Tanya Tate, famous porn star and huge horror fan. She’s appeared in “Official Silence of the Lambs Parody”, “Beamonstar”, “My Haunted House.”
1975 – Adam Green, who directed “Hatchet”, “Hatchet 2″, “Frozen”, “Holliston (TV Series)”, “Chillerama” and most recently “Digging Up The Marrow.”
1971 – Ewan McGregor, who played “Obi-Wan Kenobi in “Star Wars episode I, the Phantom Menace” “Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones” and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
1964 – Deborah Kara Unger, who co-starred in “White Noise,” “Highlander III: The Sorcerer” and “Silent Hill.”
1957 – Marc McClure who played “Jimmy Olsen” in the “Superman” films, and in “Supergirl.” He also appeared in the movies “Back To the Future,” “Amazon Women On the Moon” and “The Vagrant.”
1943 – Christopher Walken, who starred in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Dead Zone,” “The Prophecy,” and the remake of “The Stepford Wives,” to name few of his numerous genre films.
1927 – William Daniel, best known for playing “Dr. Mark Craig” on the TV show “St. Elsewhere,” and as the voice of “K.I.T.T.” on the “Knight Rider” series. He starred in the “Kolchak” episode “Vampire” and as the title role on the short lived series “Captain Nice.”
1922 – Patrick Magee, co-star of the films as “Tales From the Crypt,” “A Clockwork Orange” & “Masque of the Red Death.”
1911 – Al Nesor, who played “Stobo” in “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”

Jessica Szohr

Adam Green

Ewan McGregor

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DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MARCH 31

2007 – Thomas Moore, who produced the films “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” and “Mark of the Witch,” passed away at the age of 88.
2003 – Anne Gwynne, who appeared in the Universal classics “Black Friday,” the 1941 version of “The Black Cat” (a.k.a. “The Black Cat Murders”) and “House of Frankenstein,” passed away at the age of 84.
1993 – Brandon Lee, who at the age of 28, was tragically shot and killed on the set of the film “The Crow.”
1973 – George Woodbridge, great character actor who appeared in “Tower of Terror”, “Horror of Dracula”, “The Revenge of Frankenstein”, “Jack the Ripper”, “The Mummy”, “The Flesh and the Fiends”, “Curse of the Werewolf”, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness”, “The Reptile”, and many more. He passed away at the age of 66.
1951 – Ralph Forbes who appeared in the 1939 versions of “The Tower of London,” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” passed away at the age of 54
1952 – Roland West who starred in the silent films “The Monster” (with Lon Chaney Sr.), “The Bat,” and it’s talking remake “The Bat Whispers,” passed away at the age of 67.