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

Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder was born on October 17th, 1948 in Yellowknife, Canada.

Margaret Ruth Kidder (1948-2018)

Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)
with Doug McGrath and Olivia Hussey 

Superman (1978)

The Amityville Horror (1979)
with Josh Brolin

Heartaches (1981)
with Annie Potts 

Also on this date:

Julie Adams was born in 1926