Judith O'Dea
(Actor)
.. Barbara
Russell Streiner
(Actor)
.. Johnny
Duane Jones
(Actor)
.. Ben
Born:
February 02, 1936
Died:
July 22, 1988
Birthplace: New York City, New York United States
Trivia:
Duane Jones spent much of his career actively promoting and participating in African-American theater companies as an actor and a director. The former English professor also directed the Maguire Theater at the Old-Westbury campus of New York State University and served as artistic director at the Richard Allen Center in NYC. As an actor, many will best remember Jones as the ill-fated hero in George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and as an anthropologist-turned-vampire in Ganja and Hess (1973). Jones made his final film appearance in the 1989 horror feature To Die For.
Keith Wayne
(Actor)
.. Tom
Karl Hardman
(Actor)
.. Harry
Judith Ridley
(Actor)
.. Judy
Marilyn Eastman
(Actor)
.. Helen Cooper
Kyra Schon
(Actor)
.. Karen
Bill Heinzman
(Actor)
.. Cemetery Ghoul
Charles Craig
(Actor)
.. Newscaster/Ghoul
Lee Hartman
(Actor)
.. Ghoul/Reporter
Frank Doak
(Actor)
.. Scientist
George Kosana
(Actor)
.. Sheriff McClelland
Bill Cardille
(Actor)
.. Reporter
Mark Ricci
(Actor)
.. Washington Scientist
George A. Romero
(Actor)
.. Washington Reporter (uncredited)
Born:
February 04, 1940
Died:
July 16, 2017
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Trivia:
American director George A. Romero was making films from the age of 14 -- like most teen movie enthusiasts, with an 8 mm camera. Matriculating into the industrial-film business in Pittsburgh, Romero accrued enough capital to make his first feature-length film in 1968, a graphically gruesome zombie picture entitled Night of the Living Dead. Barely making back its cost on its initial release, the movie received some welcome, if adverse, publicity when Reader's Digest devoted an article to it. The magazine was appalled at the scenes of cannibalism and similar horrors, going so far as to insist that a movement be started to have the picture banned. Naturally, this made the movie more popular than ever, much more so than if Reader's Digest had simply ignored it. And the subsequent profits of Night of the Living Dead enabled Romero to finance several more low-budget scare pictures before he broke into the mainstream with Dawn of the Dead in 1978, a semi-comic sequel to his first film. Day of the Dead (1985), the third of the Dead Trilogy, was more elaborate than his earlier productions, but also more disappointing. Still, Romero could point with pride to such films as Creepshow (1980), Martin (1978), and his weekly TV terror anthology Tales From the Darkside (1984-1986), which belied its tiny budget with excellent writing, first-rate actors (Barnard Hughes, Fritz Weaver, Jerry Stiller, Eddie Bracken, et al.) and bone-chilling makeup effects. Although remaining in the realm of B-movies by choice, Romero has exerted considerable influence on an entire school of higher-budget horror directors, notably John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and especially Brian De Palma. Romero is married to actress and long-time collaborator Christine Forrest.
John A. Russo
(Actor)
.. Washington Reporter/Ghoul (uncredited)
Jack Givens
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Rudy Ricci
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Paula Richards
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
John Simpson
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Herbert Summer
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Richard Ricci
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
William Burchinal
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Ross Harris
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Al Croft
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Jason Richards
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Dave James
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Sharon Carroll
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
William Mogush
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Steve Hutsko
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Joann Michaels
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Phillip Smith
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Ella Mae Smith
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Randy Burr
(Actor)
.. Ghoul
Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille
(Actor)
.. Field reporter
S. William Hinzman
(Actor)
Scott Vladimir Licina
(Actor)
.. Rev. Hicks (30th Anniversary 1999 scenes)
Adam Knox
(Actor)
.. Mike (30th Anniversary 1999 scenes)
Debbie Rochon
(Actor)
.. Darlene Davis (30th Anniversary 1999 scenes)
Heidi Hinzman
(Actor)
.. Rosie (30th Anniversary 1999 scenes)
Russ Streiner
(Actor)
.. Johnny
Bill Hinzman
(Actor)
.. Cemetery Zombie
Born:
October 24, 1936
Died:
February 05, 2012