The Tomb of Ligeia 1965 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 11 Jan 2020 | updated - 11 Jan 2020 | PublicTuesday January 19th, The Fonda Theatre 6126 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
1. Vincent Price
Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, to Marguerite Cobb "Daisy" (Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, who was President of the National Candy ...
2. Larry Ward
Actor | The Dakotas
Larry Ward was born on October 3, 1924 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Dakotas (1962), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and Crackdown (1988). He was married to Roberta Haynes. He died on February 16, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
3. Bob Guy
Actor | Jeepers Creepers Theater
Bob Guy was born on July 30, 1920 in New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Jeepers Creepers Theater (1962). He died on September 10, 1984 in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
4. Elsa Lanchester
Actress | Witness for the Prosecution
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born into an unconventional a family at the turn of the 20th century. Her parents, James "Shamus" Sullivan and Edith "Biddy" Lanchester, were socialists - very active members of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) in a rather broad sense - and did not believe in the ...
5. Carroll Borland
Actress | Mark of the Vampire
Carroll Borland was born on February 25, 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Mark of the Vampire (1935), Biohazard (1985) and Scalps (1983). She was married to Vernon John Parten. She died on February 3, 1994 in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
6. Bill Hayes
Actor | Days of Our Lives
Throughout the 1970s and a good part of the 1980s, Bill Hayes and his second wife, Emmy-winning Susan Seaforth Hayes, reigned as the Lunt and Fontanne of daytime soaps. Prior to this he had become a noted singer/actor on the Broadway stage and in night clubs. Born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey...
7. Elizabeth Shepherd
Actress | The Tomb of Ligeia
Born in London to missionary parents, Elizabeth Shepherd first performed in public as a child, interpreting Burmese dances at mission-related events. Back in England, she studied drama at Bristol University and acted on stage with repertory companies in Manchester and Nottingham. Between 1961 and ...
8. John Westbrook
Actor | The Lord of the Rings
John Westbrook was born on November 1, 1922 in Teignmouth, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Room at the Top (1958) and Thunder in the West (1957). He was married to Beryl Hardy. He died on June 16, 1989 in Ridgewell, Halstead, Essex, England, UK.
9. Derek Francis
Actor | Scrooge
Derek Francis was born on November 7, 1923 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Scrooge (1970), Carry on Abroad (1972) and The Six Proud Walkers (1962). He was married to Penelope Elsden Smith. He died on March 27, 1984 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK.
10. Oliver Johnston
Actor | The Quatermass Experiment
Oliver Johnston was born on April 30, 1888 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Wideawake (1957) and Kidnapped (1960). He died on December 22, 1966 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
11. Richard Vernon
Actor | Goldfinger
Dignified, aristocratic-looking Richard Vernon was born to English parents in Kenya. He was educated at Reading and Leighton Park Schools and commenced his acting career near the end of his wartime service with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, producing, directing and starring in a production of ...
12. Frank Thornton
Actor | Are You Being Served?
He was the third child of William Ernest Ball, a bank manager and Rosina whose other children were Marjorie, who died in 1980 and John, Thornton was his mother's maiden name and his middle name, He played the cello in his school's orchestra and was a corporal in the Officer's Training Corps which ...
13. Ronald Adam
Actor | The Haunting
Ronald Adam was a man who combined an acting career with an extra-ordinary military career that encompassed being a victim of the Red Baron in World War One to taking his revenge as an RAF fighter controller in the Battle of Britain. Born Ronald George Hinings Adams on the last day of 1896, he was ...
14. Denis Gilmore
Actor | Made in Dagenham
Denis Gilmore was born on August 14, 1949 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Made in Dagenham (2010), Almost Angels (1962) and The Devil in the Fog (1968).
15. Penelope Lee
Actress | Superman
Born in 1938 in Wyke Regis, England, Penelope Lee has been in a diverse variety of film, television, and theater. She won an arts council scholarship at age 36 to study singing and went to The Aldburgh School for Advanced Students. From this grew the Upottery festival. Performers included Yehudhi ...
16. Roger Corman
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...
17. Samuel Z. Arkoff
By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle. As a shark, Arkoff was physically...
18. Pat Green
Producer | Die, Monster, Die!
Pat Green was born on October 29, 1928 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. Pat is a production manager and producer, known for Die, Monster, Die! (1965), The Projected Man (1966) and The File of the Golden Goose (1969).
19. Robert Towne
Writer | Chinatown
Writer, director, producer, actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, and raised in the seaport town of San Pedro. Got his start acting and writing for legendary exploitation director/producer Roger Corman. Came into his own during the 1970s when he was regarded as one of the finest ...
20. Paul Mayersberg
Writer | The Man Who Fell to Earth
Paul Mayersberg was born on June 18, 1941 in Cambridge, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Croupier (1998) and The Last Samurai (1990). He was previously married to Jennie Stoller.
21. Kenneth V. Jones
Actor | Phantasm
Kenneth V. Jones was an actor, known for Phantasm (1979), Kenny & Company (1976) and Hidden Fears (1993). He died on November 6, 2020 in the USA.
22. Arthur Grant
Cinematographer | Quatermass and the Pit
Arthur Grant was born in 1915 in Surrey, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and The Damned (1962). He died in 1972.
23. Alfred Cox
Sound_department | Death Wish
Alfred Cox was born in 1925 in London, England, UK. He was an editor, known for Death Wish (1974), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and The Pirates of Blood River (1962). He died in 2005 in Somerset, England, UK.
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