Ira Stadlen was better known as voice actor Allen Swift.  He provided the voice of the villainous Simon Bar-Sinister on the Underdog cartoon series from 1964.  He was also many of the voices in the 1967 Rankin Bass feature Mad Monster Party? including Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, Felix Flankin, and… [Continue Reading]

Michael Pataki was a leading character actor from the 1960s, who was best known for his roles in cult horror films.  Pataki starred as Caleb Croft, a vicious vampire rapist whose offspring (William Smith) seeks his destruction in 1974′s Grave of the Vampire, and was Count Dracula and his modern-day descendant Michael Drake in Albert… [Continue Reading]

Carl Macek was a pioneer in the field of anime, serving as producer and story editor for the popular Robotech series from the mid-1980s. Macek was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 21, 1951.  He worked at California State University Fullerton as a librarian of popular culture, and co-editor of  1979′s McGill’s Survey of the… [Continue Reading]

Myles Wilder was the son of B-movie director W. Lee Wilder, and scripted many of his father’s more memorable science fiction and horror films in the 1950s.  Myles wrote such cult classics as Phantom from Space (1953), Killers from Space (1954), The Snow Creature (1954), Manfish (1956), Fright (1956), Spy in the Sky (1958), and… [Continue Reading]

June Havoc was a leading star on the vaudeville stage, billed as Baby June while performing as a child.  She later had a long career in Hollywood, appearing in films and television. She was born Ellen Evangeline Hovick in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on November 8, 1912.  She and her older sister, Louise, were trained… [Continue Reading]

Diminutive actor David Steinberg was featured as Meegosh in Ron Howard’s 1988 fantasy Willow. Steinberg was born in Los Angeles in 1964, and was raised by his adoptive parents in Queens, New York.  The 3’1 actor appeared as a leprechaun in the children’s television horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark?. He was also… [Continue Reading]

John Forsythe was a leading actor on stage, screen and television from the late 1940s, but was never seen in one of his best known roles.  He lent his distinctive voice to the role of Charles Townsend, who sent an array of lovely agents on various cases by speaker phone in the Charlie’s Angels television… [Continue Reading]

Robert Culp was a popular leading actor best known for his work in television.  He starred as Kelly Robinson in the popular espionage series I Spy with Bill Cosby from 1965 to 1968, earning three Emmy Award nominations for his acting on the series and one for scripting an episode.  He later starred as government… [Continue Reading]

Richard Delvy was drummer and composer for such early surf-rock groups as the Bel-Airs and the Challengers.  He also provided the rockin’ theme song for the 1968 cult sci-fi film The Green Slime, starring Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, and Luciana Paluzzi.  Delvy belted out the unforgettable lyrics “Will you believe it when you’re dead?  GREE-EE-EENN… [Continue Reading]