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Born on this day in horror history – February 17

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February 17

1991 – Bonnie Wright, who plays “Ginny Weasley” in the “Harry Potter” films.

1981 – Joseph Gordon- Levitt, who starred as “Tommy” in the TV series “Third Rock From the Sun.” He also appeared in the films “Inception,” “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”, “Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later”, “Looper”, and “The Dark Knight Rises”.

1981 – Socialite Paris Hilton, who appeared in the 2005 remake of “House of Wax” and “Repo! The Genetic Opera.”

1980 – Jason Ritter, who starred in “Freddy vs Jason” and “Swimfan.” He is the son of the late John Ritter.

1974 – Jerry O’Connell, who starred in the films “Stand By Me,” “Scream 2,” ” Room 6″ and the TV series “Sliders.”

1971 – Denise Richards, who appeared in the films “Tammy and the T-Rex,” “Starship Troopers,” “Valentine” and “Scream 3.”

1970 – Dominic Purcell, has appeared in “Blade: Trinity”, “The Gravedancers”, “Primeval”, “Blood Creek”, “Straw Dogs”, and “The Ganzfeld Haunting”.

1965 – Jonathan Breck, who played “The Creeper” in “Jeepers Creepers” 1 & 2.

1965 – Michael Bay, who produced and directed the “Transformer” films. He also produced the remakes of “Friday the 13th,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, who starred in the films “The First Power,” “Bats” and the short lived TV series “Wolf Lake”, “Red Water”, “Sanitarium”.

1954 – Don Coscarelli, who wrote the screenplays for and/or directed the films “Phantasm” I, II, III & IV, “The Beastmaster” and “Bubba Ho-tep.”

1954 – Rene Russo who starred in the films “Outbreak,” “Freejack” and “The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.”

1936 – Cleveland Brown’s Hall of Famer, Jim Brown who appeared in the films “Running Man” and “Mars Attacks!”

1934 – Alan Bates, who appeared in the films “Mister Frost” and “The Mothman Prophecies.”

1925 – Hal Holbrook, who has starred in the films “The Fog,” “Creepshow” and “The Unholy.”

1923 – Jun Fukuda, who directed “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster,” “Son of Godzilla” and “Godzilla vs. Gigan.”

1907 – Buster Crabbe who starred as the first “Flash Gordon” and “Buck Rogers.” He also appeared in Fred Olen Ray’s “The Alien Dead.”

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joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jerry O'Connell
Jerry O’Connell
Denise Richards
Denise Richards
Dominic Purcell
Dominic Purcell
Jonathan Breck
Jonathan Breck
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips
Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli

Michael Juvinall

I am a Horror journalist, producer, ravenous Horror fiend, aficionado of the classic Universal Monsters, Hammer Horror, Werewolves, and all things Horror.

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