Debra Hill

 Debra Hill was born in Haddonfield, NJ on November 10th, 1950. 

Debra Hill (1950-2005)

The producer and writer worked on many classic films such as The Dead Zone (1983), Clue, Adventures in Babysitting and Big Top Pee Wee. 

Hill and Carpenter

She often collaborated with John Carpenter on films such as Escape From New York, Escape from LA and The Fog (1980). Together they developed the original Halloween film as co-writer’s and Hill produced the first three movies of the franchise. 

John Carpenter, Debra hill and Rob Bottin
on the set of The Fog (1989)

Tommy Lee Wallace and Debra Hill

Also on this date:

Russell Johnson was born in 1924

George Romero’s Creepshow was released in 1982

Relevant:

John Carpenter

Jamie Lee Curtis

P.J. Soles

Donald Pleasence

Nancy Loomis

Debra Hill

Tommy Lee Wallace

Tony Moran

Will Sandin 

Randi Brooks

 Randi Brooks was born on November 8th, 1956

Randi Brooks

The Man With Two Brains (1983)

Terrorvision (1986)

Hamburger:The Motion Picture (1986)

Wizards and Warriors TV Series (1983)

The Dukes of Hazzard (1983)

Also on this date:

Jill Banner was born in 1946

Betsy Palmer

Betsy Palmer was born on November 1st, 1926 in East Chicago, Indiana.

(1926 - 2015)

The Long Gray Line (1955)
with Maureen O’ Hara

The Tin Star (1957) 
with Peter Fonda and Anthony Perkins

I’ve Got a Secret (1958)

Betsy Palmer joined the 
Today Show in 1968

Friday the 13th (1980)
with Walt Gorney

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
with Amy Steel and Tom McBride

Penny Dreadful (2005)

Also on this date:

 

Edward Van Sloan was born 1882

Relevant:

Tour of the Original Friday the 13th Filming Location

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester was born on October 28th, 1902.

Although her credits span 50 years of film and television, she is most well known for her role as the bride in The Bride of Frankenstein also starring Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger (dir. James Whale 1935).

Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 
with
Colin Clive, Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger

Waxwork Records THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music by Franz Waxman

Mary Poppins (1964)

Willard (1971) with Bruce Davison,
Ernest Borgnine and Sondra Locke

Also on this date:

Annie Potts was born in 1952

Jackie Coogan

On October 26th, 1914 Jackie Coogan was born. 

Jackie Coogan (1914-1984)

Coogan began acting at an early age and was discovered by Charlie Chaplin before his 5th birthday. 

At 21, Coogan sued his mother and stepfather for squandering his earnings. The ensuing court battle prompted a law protecting child actors entitled “Coogan’s Act”. 

After World War II, Coogan settled into a TV career and eventually into the role of Uncle Fester on the Addams Family television series.

Uncle Fester (1964-1966)

Coogan as Uncle Fester and Ted Cassidy as Lurch

John Astin, Coogan,
Ted Cassidy, Lisa Loring, 
Carolyn Jones and Ken Weatherwax
(1964-1966)

Also on this date:

Holly Woodlawn was born in 1946

Curly Howard

 Jerome Lester Horwitz, 

affectionately referred to as “Babe” by older brothers Moe and Shemp.

Born on October 22nd, 1903. 

Jerome Lester Horowitz (1903-1952)

Ted Healy and his Stooges

With Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre
and Moe Howard

Disorder in the Court (1936)

Curly rescued dogs
wherever he went

Also on this date:

Catherine Deneuve was born in 1943

Stooge Related:

Joe Besser

Joe DeRita

Carrie Fisher

 Carrie Fisher was born on October 21st, 1956.

Rest In Peace 

Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)

Under the Rainbow (1981)
with Billy Barty

Rik Mayall and Carrie Fisher 
in Drop Dead Fred (1991)

Also on this date:

The Dead Zone premiered in 1983

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi was born on October 20th, 1882 in Lugoj, Romania. 

Bela Lugosi (1882-1956)

Bela as Jesus in a 1916 Debrecen,
Hungary theater production. 

Dracula (1931)

With Helen Chandler in Dracula (1931)

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
with Charles Laughton 
and Kathleen Burke

White Zombie (1932)
with Madge Bellamy and Robert Frazer

The Corpse Vanishes (1942) 
with Angelo Rossitto

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Directed by Ed Wood

Also on this date:

Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut) premiered in 1971

Relative:

7 (technically 9) Pretty Good Vampire Movies

Son of Dracula

Salem’s Lot 

Ed Wood

Boris Karloff 

Max Schreck

Gloria Holden

Amanda Bearse

Susan Sarandon 

David Robert Mitchell

David Robert Mitchell (born October 19th, 1974) has written and directed 3 full length feature movies. 

A low key coming of age drama, a critically acclaimed horror movie and a batshit neo-noir thriller. 

3 movies, each very different than the other. 

His next project is set to be a superhero story entitled Heroes and Villians. 

The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)

It Follows (2014)

Under the Silver Lake (2019)

Also on this date:

John Lithgow was born in 1945

Dawn Wells

 Dawn Wells was born October 18th, 1938.

Gilligan’s Island (1964-67)

With Russell Johnson 

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Return To Boggy Creek (1977)

Also on this date:

Peter Boyle was born in 1935