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- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Debbie Rochon grew up in British Columbia, Canada. She was a child of the streets and victim of much abuse until she accidentally ended up in a featured extra role in Paramount's Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)!
The event changed her life, and she saved enough money to move to New York City and study acting. After many years working with numerous theater companies in off-Broadway plays, she started to land small roles in films. Spike Lee's editor Barry Alexander Brown cast her in a featured role in his first directing effort, Lonely in America (1990). Soon the parts grew bigger and bigger and primarily fell in the fear flick genre.
After spending three months as a featured extra on the 1980 filmed Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) movie set, Debbie was still a fledgling actor but took on the female lead in the Leonard Melfi one act play Ferryboat. It was indeed synchronicity for Debbie to cut her acting teeth on a play about the Staten Island Ferry, by 1984 she moved from her home town of Vancouver, B.C. to New York City. For the rest of the 1980s she spent most of her time studying acting at Michael Chekhov Studios under Ted Pugh, Lee Strasberg Institute under Penelope Allen, NYC's Chicago City Limits under David Regal and H.B. Studios under William Hickey, Carol Rosenfeld and Uta Hagen. Debbie spent all her time working in plays on Theatre Row in NYC, mostly in new works by playwrights and shooting NYU thesis films with burgeoning filmmakers. By 1988 she started to land small roles with grind-house indie filmmakers Roberta Findlay and Chuck Vincent. She made two films with each film maker by 1989, in both cases they would be the last, or close to very last, films both directors would helm before retiring. By the early 1990s, Debbie was working with multiple theatre companies in NYC including The Tribeca Lab where she played multiple characters in Stephen DiLauro play The Secret Warhol Rituals. In 1993 Debbie began her career in radio co-producing and co-hosting Oblique Strategies on the terrestrial channel WBAI. 1994 was the beginning for Debbie to land lead roles in film. Abducted II: The Reunion (1995) would be the first, and in 1995 she co-stared in her first Troma produced film Tromeo and Juliet (1996) co-directed by James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman. This would also be the year Debbie would be given her first writing column which appeared in The Job Bob Report, published by John Bloom. She would also pen for numerous genre publications including Mad Movies (France), Femme Fatales, SQI and Chiller Theatre. Of the multiple movie roles she would portray by decade's end it would be Hellblock 13 (1999), co-staring Gunnar Hansen, that would begin the wheels turning for a new type of role she would soon be known for. During the 1996-1998-time frame Debbie would co-produce and co-host Illumination Gallery for the internet's first on-line radio station Pseudo Radio. In 2000 director Jon Keeyes cast Debbie in the now cult classic American Nightmare (2002) which garnered much acclaim with legit reviewers and audiences alike. Her role as Jane Toppan would solidify her as a go-to actor for roles of the off-kilter and intense kind. By 2002 Debbie began working for Full Moon Entertainment, starring in four feature films with the company. She continued to write for genre publications and contributed chapters to horror themed books. In 2005 Debbie joined forces with what was then known as Scream TV. The company bought Fangoria magazine and Debbie began producing short documentaries including Fangoria Presents: Slither Behind the Scenes (2006). In 2006 they launched Fangoria Radio for Sirius/XM where she co-produced and co-hosted the show with Twisted Sister front-man Dee Snider until 2010. The following year Debbie was granted her own column in the magazine called Diary of the Deb, the first column written by a woman for the publication, it was nominated for three Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards for best column, winning the esteemed statue in 2014. During this decade Debbie also gave critically acclaimed turns in works inspired by some of her favorite classical writers; Tales of Poe (2014) (Edgar Allan Poe), Mark of the Beast (2012) (Rudyard Kipling) and Colour from the Dark (2008) (H.P. Lovecraft).
Debbie appeared on the VH1 reality TV show Episode #2.4 (2010) as a guest judge in 2010. In 2012 she served, with Mira Sorvino, Gabrielle Miller, Tamar Simon Hoffs and Lana Morgan, as part of the first all-female jury at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in Germany. The same year Debbie had her directorial debut with the extreme body-horror film Model Hunger (2016). ETonline.com hailed Debbie as one of the "40 Top Scream Queens of the Past 40 Years" in 2018. Debbie's last writing column, Debbie Rochon's Bloody Underground, appeared in the Italian published magazine Asylum. Debbie continues to act in feature films, is writing her book and prepares for her sophomore directing project. She has also began recording a new podcast called Obscurities. She was awarded, as the first female recipient, the Countess Dracula (formerly Count Dracula) award by the Dracula Film Festival 2020 which takes place in Romania.Lurkers
Vampire's Kiss
Banned
Space Zombies
Blood Dreams
Valerie
Do You Like Women?
Abducted II
Regenerated Man
Black Easter
Shriek of the Lycanthrope
Satanic Yuppies
Santa Claws
Red Lips II
Evil Ambitions
Alien Agenda: Endangered Species
Terror Firmer
Rage of the Werewolf
Hellblock 13
Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre
Mistress Frankenstein
Head Cheerleader Dead Cheerleader
The Resurrection Game
Strawberry Estates
The Erotic Ghost
The Resurrection Game
Purgatory Blues
Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!
Cremains
Witchhouse 3: Demon Fire
The Erotic Witch Project III: Wichbabe
Zombie Lust
Shadow of the Demon
Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil
American Nightmare
Dead and Rotting
Filthy McNasty
The Erotic Mirror
Vampire Queen
The Legend of Crazy George
Shockheaded
Bleed
Dead Clowns
Final Examination
Parts of the Family
Beyond the Lost World: Alien Conspiracy III
Corpses Are Forever
The Bog Creatures
Nikos: The Impaler
Mega Scorpions
Severe Injuries
Tales from the Crapper
Lord of the Undead
Fort Doom
Vampiyaz
Red Lips: Eat the Living
The Shelter
Wolfsbayne
Mulva 2: Kill Teen Ape
In the Woods
The Bonesetter Returns
Blood Relic
Heather and Puggly Drop a Deuce
Death Plots
Dark Side of the Light
Vampyre Tales
Die and Let Live
Mulberry St
Skeleton Key (2006)
Bikini Bloodbath
The Deepening
Hoodoo for Voodoo
Vampira: The Movie
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
The Screening
All Wrapped Up
Brinke's Tales of Horror
Skin Crawl
Splatter Disco
Rapturious
Stash
Zeppo: Sinners from Beyond the Moon!
A Feast of Flesh
Splatter Movie
Savaged
Fearmakers
Nothing Sacred
Chainsaw Cheerleaders
October Moon 2: November Son
Colour from the Dark
Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash
Psychic Experiment
Won Ton Baby!
Stopped Dead
The Good Sisters
Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation
Dog
Game Over
Hanger
Bikini Bloodbath Christmas
Satan Hates You
As Night Falls
Dead End(2010)
Bloodstruck
Slime City Massacre
Beg
Killer Hoo-Ha!
For Christ's Sake
Attack of the Tromaggot
Under the Scares
Imago
Voodoo Cowboys
Little Big Boy
Hack Job
The Girl
The Theatre Bizarre
Exhumed
Fairview Falls
Sick Boy
Terror Talk
Sineaters
I Spill Your Guts
Gallery of Fear
Caesar and Otto's Deadly Xmas
Mark of the Beast
Sick: Survive the Night
Solid State
Blood of the Werewolf II: Wolves & Zombies
Bikini Bloodbath Shakespeare
Battledogs
Wrath of Crows
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
Doom Room
Trashtastic
Dry Bones
Phobia
Tales of Poe
Lumber vs. Jack
Blood Boy
Billy's Cult
Time to Kill
Dollface
The Legend of Six Fingers
Varsity Blood
Disciples
Catch of the Day
Serial Kaller
Witchstalker
Clinger
Axe to Grind
The Toxic Retards
Hell Town
Model Hunger
Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween
The Hospital 2
Killer Rack
Dead End (2016)
Dick Johnson and Tommygun vs. The Cannibal Cop: Based on a True Story
She Wolf Rising
Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Volume 2
Killer Video
Cool as Hell 2
Zombie City
Death House
My Uncle John is a Zombie!
Bloody Ballet
Killer Babes and the Frightening Film Fiasco
The Mangled
Shhh
Death Breed
Freak (2022)
[171]- Actress
- Producer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Barbara Linnea Quigley was born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 27, 1958 to Heath and Dorothy Quigley. Her Mother was a housewife and her Father a noted Chiropractor and psychologist. After moving with her family to Los Angeles in the late 1970s, the short, petite Linnea began working at a Jack Lalanne Spa. There she was encouraged to try modeling and acting. She soon began getting small parts in commercials and B-movies, such as "Stone Cold Dead" (1979) and "Wheeler" (1975). Her breakout role was in "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985), which has gone on to become a cult classic, and established her firmly as "Queen of the Bs". Her reign was supreme in the late 1980s with such films as "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" (1988), "Night of the Demons (1988), and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" (1988) In 2001 Linnea moved to Florida to be closer to her ailing parents who had settled there after her father retired. As of this writing she resides in south Florida with her beloved dogs. She is a devoted animal rights advocate, and also leads a strict Vegan lifestyle. Linnea continues to appear in, and produce films. She also appears at Horror Conventions around the globe, where she is a fan favorite. She has written two books about her life in the B-movie industry, "Bio & Chainsaw," in 1992 and "I'm Screaming as Fast as I Can" in 1995. After more than 35 years and more than 125 films, Linnea Quigley is still "America's Scream Queen".Psycho from Texas
Tourist Trap
Don't Go Near the Park
Graduation Day
The Black Room
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Fatal Games
Return of the Living Dead
Creepozoids
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Nightmare Sisters
Night of the Demons (1988)
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Dead Heat
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Witchtrap
Murder Weapon
Blood Nasty
Fallen Angels
Innocent Blood
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
Burial of the Rats
Sick-o-Pathics
Jack-O
Fatal Frames
Phantoms
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
Death Mask
Kolobos
Animals
Kannibal
Horrorvision
The Monster Man
Scream Queen
Zombiegeddon
The Rockville Slayer
Frost
Corpses Are Forever
The Naked Monster
Aconite
Whispers from a Shallow Grave
Hoodoo for Voodoo
Each Time I Kill
Spring Break Massacre
Legend Has It
Vampitheatre
Night of the Demons (2009)
It Came from Trafalgar
Dead End
Bloodstruck
Stripperland
Collapse
Where the Dead Go to Die
The Voices From Beyond
Girls Gone Dead
Caesar and Otto's Deadly Xmas
1313 Cougar Cult
The Trouble with Barry
Post Mortem, America 2021
Miss Strangelove
Blood River
Virginia Obscura
Trophy Heads
Evil Dark
Disciples
Demonica
3 Scream Queens
Cabaret Diabolique
A Bloody Story
The Barn
Lake Fear 2: The Swamp
Hunters
Hooker with a Hacksaw
Bonehill Road
Necrologies
Clownado
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2
Death Drop Gorgeous
The Good Things Devils Do
The Last Thanksgiving
Death Care
Camp Twilight
Buzz Cut
Death Breed
The Witches of the Sands
The Barn Part II
[86]- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Tiffany Julia Shepis born and raised in NYC. She got her start in James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy)Tromeo and Juliet when she was just 16 years old. Since then Tiffany has made over 100 independent films. Most notably the SYFY hit Abominable, the late night fan favorite The Hazing, After dark horror fests Nightmare Man, Sundance' The Violent Kind, as well as The multi award winning The Frankenstein Syndrome and the mega cult hit Sharknado 2! Tiffany continues to work as an actress, host and producer and is constantly on fan favorite lists such as Playboys top sexiest scream queens.Terror Firmer
Scarecrow (2002)
Death Factory
The Ghouls
Detour
Delta Delta Die!
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp
Devils Moon
Dead Scared
Corpses
Nightmare Man
Hoodoo for Voodoo
Dorm of the Dead
Abominable
Visions of Horror
Shudder (2007)
Nympha
Home Sick
Blood Oath
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Rules of 3
Dead on Site
Dark Reel
Chainsaw Cheerleaders
Bryan Loves You
Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula
12-24
The Queen of Screams
Night of the Demons (2009)
Live Evil
Basement Jack
The Violent Kind
The Prometheus Project
New Terminal Hell
Neowolf
Cyrus
Psycho Street
Outtake Reel
Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1
Bleed 4 Me
Beg
Seasons of Darkness
Paranoia
Dropping Evil
Wrath of Crows
Milwood
Hallows' Eve
Exit to Hell
Axeman
The Pick-Axe Murders Part III: The Final Chapter
The Ark of the Witch
Attack of the Morningside Monster
Tales of Halloween
Doctor Spine
Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween
She Wolf Rising
My Uncle John is a Zombie
Model Hunger
Victor Crowley
The Night Watchmen
The Black Room
Death House
Clawed
Asylum of Darkness
Strange Nature
Ouija House
Killer Kate!
Extremity
Pickaxe
Intrusion: Disconnected
Deathcember
Tar
Stingy Jack
Star Light
Knifecorp
Killer Babes and the Frightening Film Fiasco
Don't Let Them In
[77]- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Roberts is an Academy Award nominee for his role in Runaway Train, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Runaway Train, Star 80, and King of the Gypsies.
In addition, Roberts received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and It's My Party. He also starred in La Cucaracha, which won Best Film at the Austin Film Festival, and for which Roberts won Best Actor at the New York Independent Film Festival that same year. Other notable performances include his roles in The Dark Knight, Final Analysis, and Paul Thoman Anderson's Inherent Vice for Warner Bros., Millennium Films' Lovelace and The Expendables for Lionsgate.
On television, Roberts' memorable recurring roles include USA's Suits, CSI and Code Black for CBS, NBC's Heroes, and Crash for Starz. He has appeared in guest star roles on ABC's Greys Anatomy, NBC's Will & Grace, Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, CBS' Hawaii Five-O, HBO's Entourage, and so much more.
Upcoming, Roberts plays Matt Dillon's doctor in Head Full of Honey, a Warner Bros. Germany production that is directed by Til Schweiger. Emily Mortimer and Nick Nolte also star. He also has a supporting role in the independent Hard Luck Love Song directed by Justin Corsbie. Roberts will play "Skip," a grizzled doorman whom offers advice to characters played by Michael Dorman and Sophia Bush. The film also stars Dermott Mulroney, and American rapper, RZA. Finally, Roberts is set to recur as DEA boss "Erick Sheldon" in La Reina del Sur for Telemundo Global Studio and Netflix.
Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, and grew up in and around the Atlanta area. He began his career in theatre in New York City where he won the Theatre World Award for his role on Broadway in Burn This.
He resides in Los Angeles with his wife of 26 years and brood of felines.
Roberts is represented by Sovereign Talent Group, Cultivate Entertainment, and Miles Anthony Associates in the UK.The Ambulance
Nature of the Beast
The Shadow Men
The Prophecy II
Strange Frequency
Mind Storm
Raptor
Endangered Species
Wolves of Wallstreet
Dark Honeymoon
The Tomb (2009)
Groupie
Westbrook Murders
Sharktopus
Chillerama
Snow White: A Deadly Summer
The Dead Want Women
Bloodwork
The Cloth
Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft
The Devil's Dozen
The House Across the Street
Self Storage
Halloween Hell
2 Bedroom 1 Bath
A Cry From Within
Camp Dread
Zombie Dream
Bigfoot Vs. D.B. Cooper
Jake's Road
Story of Eva
Dead Ringer
Amityville Death House
No Solicitors
Fractured
The Human Centipede 3 Final Sequence
Sorority Slaughterhouse
Joker's Poltergeist
L.A. Slasher
Dark Moon Rising
The Wicked Within
Sicilian Vampire
Child of Satan
Evil Exhumed
But Deliver Us From Evil
The Terror of Hallow's Eve
The Demonic Dead
Black Wake
Hide in the Light
Something
It Wants Blood
The Evil Inside Her
Clinton Road
7 Deadly Sins
Angels Fallen
The Wind Walker
Dirty Fears
Bleach
The Cove (2021)
616 Wilford Lane
The Poltergeist Diaries
Marked
Appendage
Megaboa
Caroltyn
Survivor's Choice
The Rideshare Killer
Night of the Caregiver
[68]- Actor
- Soundtrack
John Carradine, the son of a reporter/artist and a surgeon, grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. He attended Christ Church School and Graphic Art School, studying sculpture, and afterward roamed the South selling sketches. He made his acting debut in "Camille" in a New Orleans theatre in 1925. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1927, he worked in local theatre. He applied for a job as as scenic designer to Cecil B. DeMille, who rejected his designs but gave him voice work in several films. His on-screen debut was in Tol'able David (1930), billed as Peter Richmond. A protégé and close friend of John Barrymore, Carradine was an extremely prolific film character actor while simultaneously maintaining a stage career in classic leading roles such as Hamlet and Malvolio. In his later years he was typed as a horror star, putting in appearances in many low- and ultra-low-budget horror films. He was a member of the group of actors often used by director John Ford that became known as "The John Ford Stock Company". John Carradine died at age 82 of natural causes on November 27, 1988.The Invisible Man (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
Bride of Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Revenge of the Zombies
Voodoo Man
The Mummy's Ghost
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Return of the Ape Man
House of Frankenstein (1944)
Bluebeard
House of Dracula (1945)
The Black Sheep
The Unearthly
Half Human
Invisible Invaders
Invasion of the Animal People
The Wizard of Mars
House of the Black Death
Curse of the Stone Hand
Psycho a Go-Go
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Gallery of Horror
The Astro-Zombies
The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals
Madame Death
Las Vampiras
Five Bloody Graves
Enigma de Muerte
Diabolical Pact
Daughter of the Mind
Blood of Dracula's Castle
Horror of the Blood Monsters
Hell's Bloody Devils
Blood of the Iron Maiden
Bigfoot (1970)
Will to die
Honey Britches
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
The Night Strangler
The Cat Creature
Terror in the Wax Museum
The House of Seven Corpses
Moonchild
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
The Sentinel
Shock Waves
Satan's Cheerleaders
Vampire Hookers
The Bees
Doctor Dracula
Nocturna
The Boogey Man
Monstroid
The Nesting
The Monster Club
The Howling
Frankenstein Island
Satan's Mistress
House of the Long Shadows
Evil's of the Night
The Tomb
Revenge (1986)
Monster in the Closet
Evil Spawn
Buried Alive
Jack-O
[67]- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
William Lambert Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses (2003), Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) and The Devil's Rejects (2005). His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) as Chop Top. On the HBO TV series Carnivàle (2003), Moseley had a recurring role as camp cook "Possum". He has released records with guitarist Buckethead in the band Cornbugs, as well as featuring on the guitarist's solo work.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The Blob
Fair Game [A.K.A. Mamba]
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out
The First Power
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Army of Darkness
Evil Ed
The Convent
Essence of Echoes
Vicious
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
Thr3e
Fallen Angels
Evil Bong
A Dead Calling
Home Sick
Halloween (2007)
Repo! The Genetic Opera
House (2008)
Babysitter Wanted
Alone in the Dark II
The Graves
The Devil's Tomb
Dead Air
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet
The Tortured
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Exit Humanity
The Inflicted
The Devil's Carnival
Rogue River
Eldorado
Dead Souls
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
House of the Witchdoctor
Disciples
Charlie's Farm
Old 37
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn
Almost Mercy
The Possession Experiment
The Horde
Smothered
Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival
Death House
Dark Roads
Boar
The Church
Minutes to Midnight
Gothic Harvest
Cynthia
Crepitus
American Exorcist
To Your Last Death
Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors
Handy Dandy
Shed of the Dead
Exorcism at 60,000 Feet
To Your Last Death
Big Top Evil
I Am Fear
3 From Hell
Sin Eater
The Mangled
Toy Box
[67]- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope. He played "Awful Knoffel" in the TNT original movie Evel Knievel (2004), directed by John Badham and executive produced by Mel Gibson. Henriksen portrayed "Awful Knoffel" in this project based on the life of the famed daredevil, played by George Eads. Henriksen starred for three seasons (1996-1999) on Millennium (1996), Fox-TV's critically acclaimed series created by Chris Carter (The X-Files (1993)). His performance as Frank Black, a retired FBI agent who has the ability to get inside the minds of killers, landed him three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for "Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series" and a People's Choice Award nomination for "Favorite New TV Male Star".
Henriksen was born in New York City. His mother, Margueritte, was a waitress, dance instructor, and model. His father, James Marin Henriksen, who was from Tønsberg, Norway, was a boxer and merchant sailor. Henriksen studied at the Actors Studio and began his career off-Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "Three Plays of the Sea." One of his first film appearances was as an FBI agent in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), followed by parts in Lumet's Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981). He then appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) with Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, Damien: Omen II (1978) and in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (1983), in which he played Mercury astronaut Capt. Wally Schirra.
James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), then used him again in The Terminator (1984) and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens (1986). Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead (1995). Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998).
In addition to his abilities as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter. His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today. He resides in Southern California with his wife Jane and their five-year-old daughter Sage.Mansion of the Doomed
Damien: Omen II
The Visitor
Piranha II: the Spawning
Nightmares (1983)
Aliens
Near Dark
Pumpkinhead
The Horror Show
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Alien3
Man's Best Friend
Mind Ripper
Scream 3
Lost Voyage
Unspeakable
The Untold
The Mangler 2
Antibody
The Invitation (2003)
Mimic: Sentinel
Out for Blood
One Point O
Madhouse (2004)
Alien Vs. Predator
Hellraiser: Hellworld
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
The Garden
Sasquatch Mountain
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
Abominable
Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud
In the Spider's Web
Necessary Evil
House (2008)
Dying God
Dark Reel
Black Ops
Alone in the Dark II
The Seamstress
The Lost Tribe
Screamers: The Hunting
Jennifer's Body
Cyrus
Scream of the Banshee
Monster Brawl
Sin Reaper 3D
It's in the Blood
Gingerclown
Paranormal Island
House at the End of the Drive
Hollows Grove
Dark Awakening
Stung
Harbinger Down
The Unwilling
Lake Eerie
Gehenna: Where Death Lives
Daylight's End
Wraith
Needlestick
Mom and Dad
West of Hell
D-Railed
Bid Legend
Why?
[66]- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Kane Hodder was born on April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California. He is best known for his role as horror icon Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Jason Goes to Hell (1993), and Jason X (2001). He is also known for his role as the deformed serial killer Victor Crowley in Hatchet (2006), Hatchet II (2010), and Hatchet III (2013).Alligator
Prison
Open House
House II: The Second Story
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Ghoulies Go to College
Alligator II: The Mutation
House IV
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Scanner Cop II
Project: Metalbeast
Wishmaster
Watchers 4
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
Jason X
DarkWolf
The Devil's Rejects
2001 Maniacs
Room 6
Hatchet
Fallen Angels
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Hack
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
Dead Noon
Born
Old Habits Die Hard
Bundy: A Legacy of Evil
Hatchet II
Frozen (2010)
The Family
The Afflicted
Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1
Exit 33
Chillerama
Among Friends
Hatchet III
Exit to Hell
The Haunting of Alice D
Love in the Time of Monsters
Digging Up the Marrow
Crazed
Charlie's Farm
Abandoned in the Dark
Old 37
Muck
Almost Mercy
Smothered
Chainsaw Maiden's from Hell
Victor Crowley
Death House
An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted)
The Good Things Devils Do
Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors
Shed of the Dead
Knifecorp
Room 9
13 Fanboy
Death Breed
Before the Mask: The Return of Leslie Vernon
Witchula
Dead AfterLife
[64]- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Perhaps best known for his chilling performance as "Candyman", the charismatic 6' 5" actor Tony Todd has consistently turned in compelling performances since his debut in the fantasy film Sleepwalk (1986). Born in Washington, D.C., Todd spent two years on a scholarship at the University of Connecticut, which, in turn, led to a scholarship from the renowned Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute. It proved to be the foundation for intense stints at the Hartman Conservatory in Stamford, Connecticut and the Trinity Square Repertory Theatre Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. Todd appeared in dozens of classical and many experimental plays, yet still managed to find time to teach playwriting to high school students in the Hartford public school system.
Todd's extensive credits exemplify his versatility. They include such film classics as The Rock (1996), The Crow (1994), Lean on Me (1989), Bird (1988), Night of the Living Dead (1990), Final Destination (2000), the multiple Academy Award winning Oliver Stone film Platoon (1986) and The Secret (2000), which was nominated and screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Todd's recent films include the independent film Silence (2002) and Final Destination 2 (2003). He has had prominent guest starring roles in numerous critically-acclaimed television series, including recurring on Boston Public (2000), For the People (2002) and The District (2000), as well as NYPD Blue (1993), Smallville (2001), Law & Order (1990), Crossing Jordan (2001), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and The X-Files (1993). Todd recurred on three incarnations of "Star Trek" and guest starred on Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) and episodes of CSI: Miami (2002) and Andromeda (2000). His television movies include starring roles in True Women (1997), Black Fox (1995), Butter (1998), Ivory Hunters (1990), Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999) and Control Factor (2003).
Todd's considerable theatre credits include the world premiere of award-winning playwright August Wilson's "King Hedley II", where he originated the title role in Pittsburgh, Seattle and Boston. Variety commented: "Todd's King Hedley dominates the stage. A sour-faced mix of rage and resolve, anger and vulnerability. Todd's Hedley was a memorable tour-de-force even on opening." He also received a coveted Helen Hayes nomination for his performance in Athol Fugard's "The Captain's Tiger at La Jolla, the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Kennedy Center. Other theatre credits include "Les Blancs", "Playboy of the West Indies", "Othello", "Zooman and the Sign", award-winning playwright Keith Glover's "Dark Paradise", "Aida" (on Broadway), and most recently, "Levee James" for the prestigious Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and The New Dramatist Guild.Voodoo Dawn
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Candyman
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Wishmaster
Shadow Builder
Candyman: Day of the Dead
Final Destination
Scarecrow Slayer
Final Destination 2
Murder-Set-Pieces
The Prophecy: Forsaken
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Absence of Light
Minotaur
Hatchet
Final Destination 3
Shadow Puppets
iMurders
The Thirst: Blood War
Nite Tales: The Movie
Dark Reel
Bryan Loves You
Vampire in Vegas
The Graves
Penance
Are You Scared 2
The Quiet Ones
Hatchet II
The Family
Jack the Reaper
Final Destination 5
Beg
Kill Her, Not Me
Dead of the Nite
Army of the Damned
Disciples
Scream at the Devil
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn
Live Evil
Frankenstein (2015)
Bleeding Hearts
Agoraphobia
Broken Cross
Zombies (2017)
Victor Crowley
Two Faced
#FromJennifer
Death House
West of Hell
The Final Wish
Requiem
Hell Fest
Candy Corn
Immotral
Sky Sharks
Tales From the Hood 3
Stoker Hills
The Lockdown Hauntings
Candyman (2021)
The Changed
The Reenactment
Hellblazers (2022)
[63]- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it be Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), or Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), or as the title monster in the Hammer Horror film, The Mummy (1959).
Lee was born in 1922 in London, England, where he and his older sister Xandra were raised by their parents, Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier, until their divorce in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) Harcourt George St.-Croix (nicknamed Ingle), who was a banker. Lee's maternal great-grandfather was an Italian political refugee, while Lee's great-grandmother was English opera singer Marie (Burgess) Carandini.
After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941 when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Following his release from military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their "Charm School" and playing a number of bit parts in such films as Corridor of Mirrors (1948). He made a brief appearance in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), in which his future partner-in-horror Peter Cushing also appeared. Both actors also appeared later in Moulin Rouge (1952) but did not meet until their horror films together.
Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s. He struggled initially in his new career because he was discriminated as being taller than the leading male actors of his time and being too foreign-looking. However, playing the monster in the Hammer film The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) proved to be a blessing in disguise, since the was successful, leading to him being signed on for future roles in Hammer Film Productions.
Lee's association with Hammer Film Productions brought him into contact with Peter Cushing, and they became good friends. Lee and Cushing often than not played contrasting roles in Hammer films, where Cushing was the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Horror of Dracula (1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (1959).
Lee continued his role as "Dracula" in a number of Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. During this time, he co-starred in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), and made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu, most notably in the first of the series The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), and also appeared in a number of films in Europe. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (1973) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976).
By the mid-1970s, Lee was tiring of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
The success of these films prompted him in the late 1970s to move to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. The beginning of the new millennium relaunched his career to some degree, during which he has played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lee played Count Dooku again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), and portrayed the father of Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp, in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
On 16 June 2001, he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama. He was created a Knight Bachelor on 13 June 2009 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. In addition he was made a Commander of the Order of St John on 16 January 1997.
Lee died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 7 June 2015 at 8:30 am after being admitted for respiratory problems and heart failure, shortly after celebrating his 93rd birthday there. His wife delayed the public announcement until 11 June, in order to break the news to their family.The Curse of Frankenstein
Horror of Dracula
Corridors of Blood
Uncle Was a Vampire
The Mummy (1959)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Hands of Orlac
The City of the Dead
Scream of Fear
The Whip and the Body
Katarsis
Horror Castle
The Gorgon
The Castle of the Living Dead
Crypt of the Vampire
The Skull
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Psycho-Circus
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Theater of Death
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Island of the Burning Damned
The Devil Rides Out
The Crimson Cult
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
The Oblong Box
The Bloody Judge
Taste The Blood of Dracula
Scream and Scream Again
Scars of Dracula
Eugenie
Count Dracula
The House that Dripped Blood
I, Monster
Raw Meat
Horror Express
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Satanic Rights of Dracula
The Creeping Flesh
Nothing But the Night
Dark Places
To the Devil a Daughter
The Keeper
Dracula and Son
Meatcleaver Massacre
End of the World
House of the Long Shadows
Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
Mask of Murder
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
Funny Man
Tale of the Mummy
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Wicker Tree
The Resident
[60]- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Paul Naschy reigns supreme as the true king of Spanish horror cinema. He was born Jacinto Molina Alvarez on September 6, 1934, in Madrid, Spain. His father ran a successful fur business. Naschy grew up during the Spanish Civil War, and sought escape from the real-life horrors around him in adventure comics and movie serials; he often cited seeing Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) in a theater at age 11 as a seminal inspirational experience (his later movies would be filled with references to it). A talented athlete, Naschy played soccer for the school team and was a weightlifter who became the lightweight champion of Spain in 1958. Moreover, Paul penned Western pulp novels under the pseudonym Jack Mills and worked as an illustrator who did album cover art for a Spanish record label. Thanks to his muscular build, Naschy was able to break into the motion picture business in the early 1960s as an uncredited extra in such films as "King of the Vikings"--El príncipe encadenado (1960)--and the biblical epic King of Kings (1961).
In 1967 he wrote the script for Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968). He was forced, out of necessity, to play the lead role of tormented werewolf Waldermar Daninsky after Lon Chaney Jr. turned it down. He reprised this character in over a dozen subsequent sequels. Naschy's portrayals of the anguished and sympathetic werewolf Daninsky became his signature part and consolidated his enduring cult status as a bona-fide horror icon. Other significant horror figures Paul played were the Mummy, Jack the Ripper, Dracula (his performance as the Prince of Darkness in Count Dracula's Great Love (1973) was one of his personal favorites), the Hunchback, the Frankenstein Monster, the Phantom of the Opera, and even the Devil. Naschy made his directorial debut with Inquisition (1977). The film "Howl of the Devil"--Howl of the Devil (1988)--was one of Paul's most personal projects and finest artistic achievements.
Naschy had a major heart attack in 1991, but fully recovered and kept soldiering on. He wrote his autobiography, "Memoirs of a Wolfman," in 1997. His career gained new momentum in the early 21st century. Paul was especially memorable as the vicious title character in School Killer (2001) and had an excellent autobiographical leading role as bitter, washed-up veteran horror actor Pablo Thevenet in Rojo sangre (2004). Naschy was inducted into the Fangoria Hall of Fame in 2000 and was the recipient of the Gold Medal Award in Fine Arts in Spain in 2001. Moreover, he also did interviews and commentaries for DVD releases of his movies. Paul was still acting when he died of pancreatic cancer at age 75 on November 30, 2009, in Madrid, Spain.
Although he's sadly no longer with us, Naschy's extremely rich, varied and impressive horror cinema legacy will continue to scare, shock, and delight audiences throughout the world for all eternity.Agonizing in Crime (1968)
Frankenstein's Bloody Terror
Assignment Terror
The Werewolf Vs. Vampire Woman
The Fury of the Wolf Man
Dr. Jekyll Vs. The Werewolf
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
The Killer Is One of Thirteen
Crimson, the Color of Blood
Count Dracula's Great Love
Hunchback of the Morgue
Horror Rises From the Tomb
Vengeance of the Zombies
The Crimes of Petiot
The Hanging Woman
Curse of the Devil
The Devil's Possessed
Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
The Passengers (1975)
Night of the Howling Beast
Exorcismo
The Mummy's Revenge
The People Who Own the Dark
Inquisition
The Frenchman's Garden
The Traveller (1979)
The Beast's Carnival
Mystery on Monster Island
Night of the Werewolf
Good Evening, Mr. Monster
Heartbeat (1983)
The Beast and the Magic Sword
Howl of the Devil
Shadows of Blood
It Smells Like Someone Died Here...But It Wasn't Me!
State of Mind (1992)
Scientifically Perfect
Licantropo
Night Prowlers 2
School Killer
Coffins of Light
Mucha Sangre
Rojo Sangre
Tomb of the Werewolf
Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood
Rottweiler
A Werewolf in the Amazon
La Sonisa del Lobo
The Valdemar Legacy
Empusa
The Valdemar Legacy II
Wax (2014)
Los Resucitados
[53]- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he successfully completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned out to be the set of Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the screenwriter offered him $320 per day to train the actors for a boxing match. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy saw Trejo training Eric Roberts and immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film. Trejo has subsequently appeared in many other films, usually as a tough criminal or villain.
Trejo is of Mexican descent.The Hidden
Maniac Cop 2
Doppelganger
From Dusk Till Dawn
Anaconda
Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3:The Hangman's Daughter
Nightstalker
The Devil's Rejects
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Curse of El Charro
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
All Souls Day
Slayer
Seven Mummies
Death Row
Planet Terror
On Bloody Sunday
Halloween (2007)
Furnace
Necessary Evil
Alone in the Dark II
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Predators
Mexican Devil
Rise of the Zombies
Haunted High
Zombie Hunter
The Cloth
Dead in Tombstone
Voodoo Possession
Reaper
The Burning Dead
VANish
L.A. Slasher
3-Headed Shark Attack
Cyborg X
Range 15
Mostly Ghostly: One Night in Doom House
Halloweed
Murder in the Woods
Dead Again in Tombstone
American Nightmares
Slasher Party
Bullets of Justice
3 From Hell
The Last Exorcist
The Hous Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2
The Prey
Death Rider in the House of Vampires
Vampfather
The Legend of La Llorona (2022)
[51]- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
This attractive, happy go lucky blonde actress, educated at the University of Kansas and a former ballet soloist, first broke into both TV and cinema screens in the mid 1970s and through her appearances in several well remembered horror and sci-fi films, and Dee quickly gained a cult following among the fantasy film fans. Poor Dee always seemed to be on the wrong side of some malevolent person or evil creature....she was pursued by a clan of cannibal killers in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), terrorized by a pack of werewolves in the superb The Howling (1981), got a break from the horror, as a sympathetic mom in the mega sci-fi hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and nearly ends up lunch for a rabid St. Bernard in the heart stopping Cujo (1983).
In the early 1980s, Wallace-Stone actually shared the screen several times with her then husband Christopher Stone before his unfortunate, early demise from a heart attack in October, 1995.
However, typecasting Dee Wallace-Stone as a horror heroine does not do her justice, as unlike some other scream queens whose careers quickly faded, Dee has gone on to have a very busy and varied acting career, appearing in over 90 feature films to date! Her All-American looks and easy going demeanor has seen Dee often cast as a typical suburban mother, a sympathetic friend, or a trusted ally. Fans warm to her endearing smile and natural warmth, and Dee continues to find herself in constant demand in front of the camera, plus she has her own much visited website.The Stepford Wives
The Hills Have Eyes
The Howling
Cujo
Critters
Shadow Play
I'm Dangerous Tonight
Popcorn
Alligator: The Mutation
Temptress
The Frighteners
Black Circle Boys
Skeletons
Dead End Road
Headspace
Boo
Scar
The Lost
Abominable
Voodoo Moon
The Plague
J-ok'el
Halloween (2007)
Little Red Devil
Stem Cell
The House of the Devil
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Dark Fields
Raven
Exit Humanity
Sebastian
The Lords of Salem
Hansel & Gretel (2013)
Robo Croc
2 Bedroom, 1 Bath
Haunting of Cellblock 11
Zombie Killers: Elephant Graveyard
Red Christmas
Death House
Ayla
Beyond the Sky
Ouija House
Critters Attack!
Dolls (2019)
3 From Hell
Await the Dawn
The Nest
Unhallowed
13 Fanboy
Impuratus
[50]- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Lin attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway. She has studied with some of the finest: Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Lin is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again (1982)
Alone in the Dark (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Critters (1986)
Stillwatch
My Demon Lover
The Hidden
Gremlins 2
Lucky Stiff
Amityville: A New Generation
New Nightmare
Nature of the Beast
Dead End
The Hillside Strangler
2001 Maniacs (2005)
Hoboken Hollow
Hood of Horror
Snakes on a Plane
Driftwood
Killer Pad
Asylum (2008)
Dark Moon Rising
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Insidious
I Was A Teenage Werebear
Chillerama
Rosewood Lane
Insidious Chapter 2
Lost Time
Ouija
Grace
Insidious Chapter 3
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
Tales of Halloween
Director's Cut
Jack Goes Home
Abattoir
The Midnight Man
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Black Room
Insidious: The Last Key
Gothic Harvest
The Final Wish
Herbert West: Reanimator (2018)
Room for Rent
Get Gone
The Grudge (2020)
The Voices
DreamKatcher
The Call (2020)
[50]- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges. Since 1984 he's achieved international fame as the iconic boogeyman Freddy Krueger in the hit franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street and its seven sequels. Englund has guest starred in hundreds of hours of TV most recently Bones, Criminal Minds and Hawaii 5-0. He will soon be seen starring in the horror film Fear Clinic, and the English thriller The Last Showing, he can be heard as the voice of the Evil Beaver in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show.Sunburst
Eaten Alive
The Fifth Floor
Mind Over Murder
Dead & Buried
Galaxy of Terror
Mysterious Two
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
The Phantom of the Opera
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Dance Macabre
Night Terrors
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The Mangler
Killer Tongue
Wishmaster
Urban Legend
Strangeland
Python
Freddy Vs. Jason
2001 Maniacs
Dance of the Dead
Hatchet
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Heartstopper
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Black Swarm
Zombie Strippers
Night of the Sinner
The Moleman of Belmont Avenue
Inkubus
Strippers Vs. Werewolves
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
Zombie Mutilation
Sanitarium
Witches Blood
The Last Showing
Fear Clinic
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Transylvanian Curse [A.K.A Kantemir]
The Funhouse Massacre
The Midnight Man
Nightworld: Door of Hell
Abruptio
CURS>R [A.K.A. Choose or Die]
[50]- Actor
- Writer
- Art Department
Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was attracted to acting, inspired by his favorite aunt, who was a stage actress. While at school, Cushing pursued his acting interest in acting and also drawing, a talent he put to good use later in his first job as a government surveyor's assistant in Surrey. At this time, he also dabbled in local amateur theater until moving to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on scholarship. He then performed in repertory theater in Worthing, deciding in 1939 to head for Hollywood, where he made his film debut in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Other Hollywood films included A Chump at Oxford (1940) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Vigil in the Night (1940) and They Dare Not Love (1941). However, after a short stay, he returned to England by way of New York (making brief appearances on Broadway) and Canada. Back in his homeland, he contributed to the war effort during World War II by joining the Entertainment National Services Association.
After the war, he performed in the West End and had his big break appearing with Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948), in which Cushing's future partner-in-horror Christopher Lee had a bit part. Both actors also appeared in Moulin Rouge (1952) but did not meet until their later horror films. During the 1950s, Cushing became a familiar face on British television, appearing in numerous teleplays, such as 1984 (1954) and Beau Brummell (1954), until the end of the decade when he began his legendary association with Hammer Film Productions in its remakes of the 1930s Universal horror classics. His first Hammer roles included Dr. Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dr. Van Helsing in Horror of Dracula (1958), and Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
Cushing continued playing the roles of Drs. Frankenstein and Van Helsing, as well as taking on other horror characters, in Hammer films over the next 20 years. He also appeared in films for the other major horror producer of the time, Amicus Productions, including Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and its later horror anthologies, a couple of Dr. Who films (1965, 1966), I, Monster (1971), and others. By the mid-1970s, these companies had stopped production, but Cushing, firmly established as a horror star, continued in the genre for some time thereafter.
Perhaps his best-known appearance outside of horror films was as Grand Moff Tarkin in George Lucas' phenomenally successful science fiction film Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) was Cushing's last film before his retirement, during which he made a few television appearances, wrote two autobiographies and pursued his hobbies of bird watching and painting. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to the acting profession in Britain and worldwide. Peter Cushing died at age 81 of prostate cancer on August 11, 1994.The Curse of Frankenstein
The Abominable Snowman
Horror of Dracula
The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
The Flesh and the Fiends
The Brides of Dracula
Night Creatures
The Evil of Frankenstein
The Gorgon
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
The Skull
Island of Terror
Frankenstein Created Woman
Island of the Burning Damned
Torture Garden
The Blood Beast Terror
Corruption
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Scream and Scream Again
The Vampire Lovers
The House That Dripped Blood
Incense for the Damned
Twins of Evil
I,Monster
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Dracula A.D. 1972
Asylum
Fear in the Night
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Horror Express
Nothing But the Night
The Creeping Flesh
And Now the Screaming Starts
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
From Beyond the Grave
Madhouse
The Beast Must Die
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
The Big Scare
Legend of the Werewolf
The Ghoul
Land of the Minotaur
Shock Waves
The Uncanny
House of the Long Shadows
[48]- Actor
- Soundtrack
Along with fellow actors Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema, and the actor most closely identified with the general public's image of the Frankenstein Monster from the classic 1818 Mary Shelley novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus". William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England, UK, the son of Edward John Pratt Jr., the Deputy Commissioner of Customs Salt and Opium, Northern Division, Indian Salt Revenue Service, and his third wife, Eliza Sarah Millard.
He was educated at London University in anticipation that he would pursue a diplomatic career; however, he emigrated to Canada in 1909, joined a touring company based out of Ontario and adopted the stage name of "Boris Karloff." He toured back and forth across the U.S. for over 10 years in a variety of low budget theater shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood, reportedly with very little money to his name. Needing cash to support himself, Karloff secured occasional acting work in the fledgling silent film industry in such films as The Deadlier Sex (1920), Omar the Tentmaker (1922), Dynamite Dan (1924) and Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927), in addition to a handful of film serials (the majority of these, sadly, are all lost films). Karloff supplemented his meager film income by working as a truck driver in Los Angeles, which allowed him enough time off to continue to pursue acting roles.
His big break finally came when he was cast as the Frankenstein Monster in the Universal production of Frankenstein (1931), which was directed by James Whale, one of the studio's few remaining auteur directors. The aura of mystery surrounding Karloff was highlighted in the opening credits, as he was listed as simply "?". The film was a commercial and critical success for Universal, and Karloff was instantly established as a hot property in Hollywood. He quickly appeared in several other sinister roles, including Scarface (1932) (filmed before Frankenstein (1931)), as the black-humored The Old Dark House (1932), as the titular Chinese villain of Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu novels in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), as the living mummy Im-ho-tep in The Mummy (1932) and as the misguided Prof. Morlant in The Ghoul (1933). He thoroughly enjoyed his role as a religious fanatic in John Ford's film The Lost Patrol (1934), although contemporary critics described it as a textbook example of overacting.
He donned the signature make-up, neck bolts and asphalt spreader's boots to play the Frankenstein Monster twice more, the first time in the sensational Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and the second time in the less thrilling Son of Frankenstein (1939). Karloff, on loan to Fox, appeared in one of the best of the Warner Oland Charlie Chan films, Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), before beginning his own short-lived detective film series as Mr. Wong. He was a wrongly condemned doctor in Devil's Island (1938), the shaven-headed executioner Mord the Merciless in Tower of London (1939), another misguided scientist in The Ape (1940), a crazed scientist surrounded by monsters, vampires and werewolves in House of Frankenstein (1944), a murderous cab-man in The Body Snatcher (1945) and a Greek general fighting vampires in the Val Lewton thriller Isle of the Dead (1945).
While Karloff continued to appear in a plethora of films, many of them were not up to the standards of his previous efforts, including his appearances in two of the hokey Bud Abbott and Lou Costello monster films (he had appeared with both of them in an earlier, superior film, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949), of which theater owners often added his name to the marquee) at the low point of the Universal-International horror film cycle. During the 1950s he was a regular guest on many high-profile TV shows, including The Milton Berle Show (1948), Tales of Tomorrow (1951), The Veil (1958), The Donald O'Connor Show (1954), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956), just to name a few, and he appeared in a mixed bag of films, including Sabaka (1954) and Voodoo Island (1957). On Broadway, he appeared as the murderous Jonathan Brewster in the hit play "Arsenic and Old Lace" (his role, or rather the absence of him in it, was amusingly parodied in the play's 1944 film version) and 10 years later he enjoyed a long run in another hit play, "Peter Pan," perfectly cast as Captain Hook.
His career experienced something of a revival in the 1960s thanks to hosting the TV anthology series Thriller (1960) and independent film director Roger Corman, with Karloff contributing wonderful performances in The Raven (1963), The Terror (1963), the ultra-eerie Black Sabbath (1963) and the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Die, Monster, Die! (1965). Karloff's last great film role before his death was as Byron Orlok, an aging and bitter horror film star on the brink of retirement who confronts a modern-day sniper in the Peter Bogdanovich-directed film Targets (1968). After this, he played Professor John Marsh in The Crimson Cult (1968), in which he co-starred with Sir Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele; it was the last film that he starred in that was released in his lifetime. Before these two films, he played the blind sculptor Franz Badulescu in Cauldron of Blood (1968) which was produced, directed and written by Edward Mann, who had also come to the art of film from the stage and the theater; it was released in the U.S. in 1971 after his death. His TV career was topped off by achieving Christmas immortality as both the voices of the titular character and the narrator of Chuck Jones' perennial animated favorite, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). Four low budget horror films that were made in Mexico and starred an ailing Karloff, whose scenes for all four of them were shot on a soundstage in Hollywood, were released theatrically in Mexico in 1968 and then were released directly to television in the U.S. after his death between 1971 and 1972; however, they do no justice to this great actor. In retrospect, he never took himself too seriously as an actor and had a tendency to downplay his acting accomplishments. Renowned as a refined, kind and warm-hearted gentleman with a sincere affection for both children and their welfare, Karloff passed away on February 2, 1969 from pneumonia. Respectful of his Indian roots and in true Hindu fashion, he was cremated at Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK, where he is commemorated by a plaque in Plot 2 of the Garden of Remembrance.The Bells
The Unholy Night
Frankenstein (1931)
The Old Dark House
The Mummy (1932)
The Ghoul
The Black Cat (1934)
Bride of Frankenstein
The Raven (1935)
The Black Room
The Invisible Ray
The Walking Dead (1936)
The Man Who Lived Again
Son of Frankenstein
The Man They Could Not Hang
Black Friday
Before I Hang
The Ape
The Devil Commands
The Boogie Man Will Get You
The Climax
House of Frankenstein (1944)
The Body Snatcher
Isle of the Dead
Bedlam
The Strange Door
Black Castle
Island Monster
Voodoo Island
The Haunted Strangler
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Corridors of Blood
The Raven (1963)
The Terror
Black Sabbath
Die, Monster, Die!
The Sorcerers
Targets
The Crimson Cult
The Snake People
House of Evil
Cauldron of Blood
Isle of the Snake People
Alien Terror
[44]- Actor
- Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
Actor/SFX wizard/stuntman/director Tom Savini was born in Pittsburgh. Inspired by the film Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a young Savini became fascinated with the magic and illusion of film. He spent his youth in his room creating characters by tirelessly practicing make-up. Later, as a combat photographer in Vietnam, Savini saw first-hand the gruesome carnage for which he later gained fame, simulating it on screen.
He has acquired a remarkable cult following among film fans, primarily due to his ground-breaking SFX in the "splatter movie" explosion of the early 1980s. Along with fellow special make-up legends Dick Smith and Rob Bottin, Savini was one of the key SFX people behind the startling make-up & EFX seen in the fantasy/horror genre films of the 1980s-'90s. Savini was heavily influenced by the remarkable silent-era actor Lon Chaney, and he sought to emulate the amazing theatrical make-up effects that were a hallmark of Chaney's career. In Savini's insightful book "Grande Illusions", he speaks of his early attempts at applying prosthetics to his face using "spearmint gum", having misinterpreted that he was meant to actually use "spirit gum"! His first work was in low-budget fare, providing SFX and make-up for independently made horror films such as Deranged (1974) and Martin (1977).
He really caught the attention of horror buffs with his grisly effects in the cult George A. Romero-directed zombie film Dawn of the Dead (1978), and then in the controversial slasher film Friday the 13th (1980), the movie generally identified as the kickstart for the aforementioned "splatter movie" genre. Savini also contributed the incredible EFX & make-up to other splatter thrillers such as Maniac (1980), The Burning (1981), Creepshow (1982) and Romero's third "Dead" film, Day of the Dead (1985) (for which he won a Saturn Award). In 1990, Savini directed his feature film debut Night of the Living Dead (1990), the remake of the original zombie-classic.
Not content with only being behind the lens, however, Savini has appeared in dozens of films, and can be seen demonstrating his capable acting skills as "Morgan, the Black Knight" in Knightriders (1981), as "Blades", one of the biker gang members in Dawn of the Dead (1978) and as "Sex Machine", another leather-clad biker--but this time with a groin-mounted gun--in the wild vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).Martin
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Effects
Maniac (1980)
Friday the 13th
Creepshow
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The Ripper
Creepshow 2
Heartstopper
Two Evil Eyes
Innocent Blood
The Demolitionist
From Duck Till Dawn
Eyes Are Upon You
Wishmaster
The Monster Man
Web of Darkness
Children of the Living Dead
Ted Bundy
Blood Bath
Zombiegeddon
Vicious
Death 4 Told
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Unearthed
Forest of the Damned
Land of the Dead
The Absence of Light
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Planet Terror
Diary of the Dead
It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
Lost Boys: The Tribe
Sea of Dust
The Dead Matter
The Theatre Bizarre
Death From Above
Redd Inc.
Cool as Hell
The Sadist
Pandemonic
The 4th Reich
Nightmare City
[44]- Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, after which his mother married Bill Campbell, a champion golfer, who helped raise Brad, his brother, and his four sisters. From 1963 to 1965, Dourif attended Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina, where he pursued his interests in art and acting. Although he briefly considered becoming a professional artist, he finally settled on acting as a profession, inspired by his mother's participation as an actress in community theater.
Beginning in school productions, he progressed to community theater, joining up with the Huntington Community Players, while attending Marshall University of Huntington. At age 19, he quit his hometown college and headed to New York City, where he worked with the Circle Repertory Company. During the early 1970s, Dourif appeared in a number of plays, off-Broadway and at Woodstock, New York, including Milos Forman who cast him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Although this film is frequently cited as his film debut, in fact, Dourif made his first big-screen appearance with a bit part in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975). Nevertheless, his portrayal of the vulnerable Billy Bibbit in Forman's film was undoubtedly his big break, earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Acting Debut, a British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Skeptical of his instant stardom, Dourif returned to New York, where he continued in theater and taught acting and directing classes at Columbia University until 1988 when he moved to Hollywood. Despite his attempts to avoid typecasting, his intensity destined him to play eccentric or deranged characters, starting in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), John Huston's Wise Blood (1979) (arguably his best performance to date), and Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981). Dourif then teamed up with director David Lynch for Dune (1984) and Blue Velvet (1986). His high-strung style also served him well in a number of horror films, notably as the voice of the evil doll Chucky in Child's Play (1988) and its sequels.
Dourif broke from the horror genre with roles in Fatal Beauty (1987), Mississippi Burning (1988), Hidden Agenda (1990) and London Kills Me (1991). Recent film work includes the role of Grima Wormtongue in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Since his television debut in the PBS film The Mound Builders (1976), Dourif has made sporadic appearances on a number of television series, such as The X-Files (1993), Babylon 5 (1993), Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Millennium (1996) and Ponderosa (2001). He also appeared in the music video "Stranger in Town" (1984) by the rock band TOTO.I, Desire
Child's Play (1988)
Terror on Highway 91
The Exorcist III
Spontaneous Combustion
Grim Prairie Tales
Graveyard Shift
Child's Play 2
Child's Play 3
Body Parts
Critters 4
Trauma
Death Machine
Nightwatch
Alien: Resurrection
Urban Legend
Progeny
Bride of Chucky
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
Soulkeeper
Vlad
Seed of Chucky
Dead Scared [A.K.A. The Hazing]
Pulse (2006)
The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Halloween (2007)
The Boneyard Collection
Junkyard Dog
Halloween II (2009)
Death and Cremation
Chain Letter
Priest (2011)
Fading of the Cries
Born of Earth
Last Kind Words
Gingerclown
Blood Shot
Curse of Chucky
Malignant (2013)
The Control Group
Cult of Chucky
Wildling
Hebert West: Reanimator
[43] - Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Michael Ironside has made a strong and indelible impression with his often incredibly intense and explosive portrayals of fearsome villains throughout the years. He was born as Frederick Reginald Ironside on February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ironside was a successful arm wrestler in his teenage years. His initial ambition was to be a writer. At age fifteen, Michael wrote a play called "The Shelter" that won first prize in a Canada-wide university contest; He used the prize money to mount a production of this play. Ironside attended the Ontario College of Art, took acting lessons from Janine Manatis, and studied for three years at the Canadian National Film Board. Ironside worked in construction as a roofer prior to embarking on an acting career.
Ironside first began acting in movies in the late 1970s. He received plenty of recognition with his frightening turn as deadly and powerful psychic Darryl Revok in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981). He was likewise very chilling as vicious misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker in the underrated Visiting Hours (1982). Other memorable film roles include weary Detective Roersch in the sadly forgotten thriller Cross Country (1983), the crazed Overdog in the immensely enjoyable Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), the hard-nosed Jester in the blockbuster smash Top Gun (1986), ramrod Major Paul Hackett in Extreme Prejudice (1987), loner Vietnam veteran "Ben" in Nowhere to Hide (1987), the ferocious Lem Johnson in Watchers (1988), and lethal immortal General Katana in Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
Moreover, Ironside has appeared in two highly entertaining science fiction features for Paul Verhoeven: At his savage best as the evil Richter in Total Recall (1990) and typically excellent as the rugged Lieutenant Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers (1997). Ironside showed a more tender and thoughtful side with his lovely and touching performance as a hardened convict who befriends a disabled man in the poignant indie drama gem Chaindance (1991); he also co-wrote the script and served as an executive producer for this beautiful sleeper. Michael was terrific as tough mercenary Ham Tyler on the epic miniseries V (1984), its follow up V: The Final Battle (1984), and subsequent short-lived spin-off series.
Ironside also had a recurring role on the television series SeaQuest 2032 (1993). Among the television series he has done guest spots on are The A-Team (1983), Hill Street Blues (1981), The New Mike Hammer (1984), The Hitchhiker (1983), Tales from the Crypt (1989), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), The Outer Limits (1995), ER (1994), Smallville (2001), ER (1994), Desperate Housewives (2004), Justice League (2001) and Masters of Horror (2005). More recently, Ironside garnered a slew of plaudits and a Gemini Award nomination for his outstanding portrayal of shrewd biker gang leader Bob Durelle in the acclaimed Canadian miniseries The Last Chapter II: The War Continues (2003).
In addition to his substantial film and television work, Ironside has also lent his distinctive deep voice to TV commercials and video games.Stone Cold Dead
Scanners
Visiting Hours
American Nightmare
The Sins of Dorian Gray
Cross Country
The Surrogate
Murder in Space
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Hostile Takeover
Watchers
Murder by Night
The Vagrant
Night Trap
Terminal (1996)
The Omega Code
Soulkeeper
Mindstorm
Down
Children of the Corn: Revelation
Fallen Angels
Reeker
Blood Suckers
The V Word
1st Bite
Surveillance
Storm Cell
Mutants (2008)
The Beacon
Lake Placid 3
Extraterrestrial
Desecrated
Children of the Fall
Patient Seven
Still/Born
Liberty
Knuckleball
The Convent
Hellmington
Bloodthirsty
Tin Can
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
[42]- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Michelle Bauer was born on 1 October 1958 in Montebello, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Demonwarp (1988), Virgin High (1991) and Beverly Hills Vamp (1989).Terror on Tape
The Tomb
Terror Night
Night of the Living Babes
Phantom Empire
Death Row Diner
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Demonwarp
Not of this Earth
Nightmare Sisters
Beverly Hills Vamp
Spirits
Camp Fear
Puppet Master 3
Hellroller
Demon Lover
Evil Toons
The Dwelling
Demented
Young Blood, Fresh Meat
Vampire Vixens From Venus
Blonde Heaven
Witch Academy
Hybrid
Lust for Frankenstein
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
Puppet Master
Tomb of the Werewolf
The Naked Monster
Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust
Megaconda
1313: Actor Slash Model
1313: Wicked Stepbrother
1313: Cougar Cult
2: Voodoo Academy
The Trouble With Barry
Trophy Heads
3 Scream Queens
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2
[40]- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Jeffrey Combs was born on September 9th, 1954 in Oxnard, California. He grew up in Lompoc, California with a plethora of siblings both older and younger. He attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, and the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. He spent about four years in regional theater performing at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, the Arizona Theatre Company in Tucson, the California Shakespearean Festival, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa among others. In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. As a horror film leading actor, Combs is probably best known for portraying Herbert West in the cult horror film Re-Animator (1985). Re-Animator was based on H.P. Lovecraft's famous novel brought together by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, the producer and financier of the film. Combs stayed in the realm of cult films with both Gordon and Yuzna to return when making From Beyond (1986), and Bride of Re-Animator (1990) also from Lovecraft novels. He has also been in some supporting roles in _Pit and the Pendulum, The (1990) (V)_, the strange FBI Agent with Michael J. Fox in The Frighteners (1996), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and the remake of the William Castle thriller, House on Haunted Hill (1999).Frightmare
Re-Animator
From Beyond
The Phantom Empire
Pulse Pounders
Cellar Dweller
Bride of Re-Animator
The Pit and the Pendulum
Doctor Mordrid
Necronomicon: Book of Dead
Lurking Fear
Cyberstalker
Castle Freak
The Frighteners
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Faust (2000)
The Attic Expeditions
Feardotcom
Beyond Re-Animator
Edmond
All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos
Hammerhead
Abominable
Voodoo Moon
Satanic
Blackwater Valley Exorcism
Stuck
The Black Cat (2007)
The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Return to House on Haunted Hill
Brutal
Parasomnia
The Dunwich Horror (2009)
Dark House
Would You Rather
Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation
The Penny Dreadful Picture Show
Suburban Gothic
Holiday Hell
[40]- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Beginning his life with the same flair for the dramatic that would come to define his career, Udo Kier was born in Köln, Germany near the end of the 2nd world war. The hospital was bombed and buried Kier and his mother in the rubble. Both survived, and Kier would later move to London as a young adult to study English. Kier was discovered in London by Michael Sarne, who cast him in his first role as a gigolo in "Road To Saint Tropez". Kier then starred in Michael Armstrong's extremely controversial "Mark Of The Devil". He would go on to work with Paul Morrissey in Andy Warhol's "Flesh For Frankenstein" and "Blood For Dracula", Dario Argento in "Suspiria", and Rainer Werner Fassbinder in "The Third Generation", "Lili Marllen", and "Lola".
Kier entered the American independent cinema scene many years later after meeting Gus Van Sant at the Berlin Film Festival. Van Sant offered Kier the role of Hans, the lamp-singing john in "My Own Private Idaho" with Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix. He would later have roles in Gus Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" and "Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot" as well as such 90s Hollywood hits as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "Johnny Mnemonic", "Barb Wire", "End Of Violence", "For Love Or Money", "Armagedden", "Blade", and "End Of Days". Kier is probably best known for his collaboration with Lars von Trier, appearing in most of his films including "Medea", "Europa", "Breaking The Waves", "Dancer In TheE Dark", "Dogville", "Manderlay", "Melancholia", "Nymphomaniac (Vol. II)" and "The Kingdom" (Danish TV). Kier's recent renaissance has seen him play memorable roles in the Activision game "Call Of Duty", numerous television roles in North America and Europe, and in the films "Iron Sky", "Brawl In Cell Block 99", "Downsizing", "American Animals", "Bacurau", "The Painted Bird", "The Blazing World" and "Swan Song", among many others.Mark of the Devil
Flesh for Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
The House on Straw Hill [A.K.A Expose]
Spermula
Suspiria
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Egomania: Island Without Hope
Epidemic
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Terror 2000
The Kingdom
Blade
Modern Vampires
Possessed
End of Days
Shadow of the Vampire
Revelation
Fear Dot Com
Love Object
One Point O
Evil Eyes
Dracula 3000
Headspace
Bloodrayne
Cigarette Burns
Pray for Morning
Grindhouse
Fall Down Dead
Halloween (2007)
The Mother of Tears
The Theatre Bizarre
The Lords of Salem
The Editor
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Skin Walker
Intangents
The Blazing World
Chompy and the Girls
The Kingdom:Exodus
[40]- Actor
- Producer
- Transportation Department
Late 1970s horror genre icon who's best known for his creepy performance as "Pluto" in the uncompromising Wes Craven horror film The Hills Have Eyes (1977). Berryman (who suffers from Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia, a rare condition leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth) reminds one of a latter-day Rondo Hatton who also suffered from a rare medical condition that distorted his features giving him a brutish look just right for horror movies.
To Berryman's credit, he managed to develop upon his "Pluto" character, and has turned up in numerous sci-fi / fantasy movies such as My Science Project (1985), Weird Science (1985), Armed Response (1986) and Evil Spirits (1991). The tall & lean Berryman generally portrays mutant bikers, evil undertakers, monsters and other frightening characters! A genuine favorite of horror movie fans.The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Fifth Floor
Deadly Blessing
The Hills Have Eyes Part II
Invitation to Hell
Cut and Run
Haunting Fear
Evil Spirits
Teenage Exorcist
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
The Devil's Rejects
The Absence of Light
Penny Dreadful
Fallen Angels
Dead Man's Hand
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
Brutal
Smash Cut
Necrosis
The Tenant
Satan Hates You
The Family
Mask Maker
Below Zero
Beg
The Lords of Salem
Self Storage
Army of the Damned
Erebus
Kill or Be Killed
Smothered
The Evil Within
Cool As Hell 2
Death House
Hell's Kitty
Shed of the Dead
Midnight Devils
The Mad Hatter
Room 9
Junction Murders
[39]- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Balding, quietly spoken, of slight build and possessed of piercing blue eyes -- often peering out from behind round, steel-rimmed glasses -- Donald Pleasence had the essential physical attributes which make a great screen villain. In the course of his lengthy career, he relished playing the obsessed, the paranoid and the purely evil. Even the Van Helsing-like psychiatrist Sam Loomis in the Halloween (1978) franchise seems only marginally more balanced than his prey. An actor of great intensity, Pleasence excelled on stage as Shakespearean villains. He was an unrelenting prosecutor in Jean Anouilh's "Poor Bitos" and made his theatrical reputation in the title role of the seedy, scheming tramp in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" (1960). On screen, he gave a perfectly plausible interpretation of the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). He was a convincingly devious Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), disturbing in his portrayal of the crazed, bloodthirsty preacher Quint in Will Penny (1967); and as sexually depraved, alcohol-sodden 'Doc' Tydon in the brilliant Aussie outback drama Wake in Fright (1971). And, of course, he was Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967). These are some of the films, for which we may remember Pleasence, but there was a great deal more to this fabulous, multi-faceted actor.
Donald Henry Pleasence was born on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, to Alice (Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. His family worked on the railway. His grandfather had been a signal man and both his brother and father were station masters. When Donald failed to get a scholarship at RADA, he joined the family occupation working as a clerk at his father's station before becoming station master at Swinton, Yorkshire. While there, he wrote letters to theatre companies, eventually being accepted by one on the island of Jersey in Spring 1939 as an assistant stage manager. On the eve of World War II, he made his theatrical debut in "Wuthering Heights". In 1942, he played Curio in "Twelfth Night", but his career was then interrupted by military service in the RAF. He was shot down over France, incarcerated and tortured in a German POW camp. Once repatriated, Donald returned to the stage in Peter Brook's 1946 London production of "The Brothers Karamazov" with Alec Guinness although he missed the opening due to measles, followed by a stint on Broadway with Laurence Olivier's touring company in "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Anthony and Cleopatra". Upon his return to England, he won critical plaudits for his performance in "Hobson's Choice". In 1952, Donald began his screen career, rather unobtrusively, in small parts. He was only really noticed once having found his métier as dastardly, sneaky Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). It took several more years, until international recognition came his way: first, through the filmed adaptation of The Guest (1963), and, secondly, with his blind forger in The Great Escape (1963), a role he imbued with added conviction due to his own wartime experience.
Some of his best acting Donald reserved for the small screen. In 1962, the producer of The Twilight Zone (1959), Buck Houghton, brought Donald to the United States ("damn the expense"!) to guest star in the third-season episode "The Changing of the Guard". He was given a mere five days to immerse himself in the part of a gentle school teacher, Professor Ellis Fowler, who, on the eve of Christmas is forcibly retired after fifty-one years of teaching. Devastated, and believing himself a failure who has made no mark on the world, he is about to commit suicide when the school's bell summons him to his classroom. There, he is confronted by the spirits of deceased students who beg him to consider that his lessons have indeed had fundamental effects on their lives, even leading to acts of great heroism. Upon hearing this, Fowler is now content to graciously accept his retirement. Managing to avoid maudlin sentimentality, Donald's performance was intuitive and, arguably, one of the most poignant ever accomplished in a thirty-minute television episode. Once again, against type, he was equally delightful as the mild-mannered Reverend Septimus Harding in Anthony Trollope's The Barchester Chronicles (1982).
Whether eccentric, sinister or given to pathos, Donald Pleasence was always great value for money and his performances have rarely failed to engage.The Hands of Orlac
The Flesh and the Fiends
Circus of Horrors
Eye of the Devil
Wake in Fright
Raw Meat
Tales That Witness Madness
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
The Mutations
La loba y la Paloma
From Beyond the Grave
Sharon's Baby
Journey Into Fear
Land of the Minotaur
The Uncanny
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Night Creature
Halloween (1978)
Dracula
Halloween II (1981)
Alone in the Dark
To Kill a Stranger
The Devonsville Terror
Phenomena
Into the Darkness
Specters
Prince of Darkness
Vampire in Venice
Phantom of Death
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
The House of Usher
Paganini Horror
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Buried Alive
American Rickshaw
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
Fatal Frames
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