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Working regularly with Brian De Palma, alongside Joe Dante, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Pupi Avati and Michele Soavi, standout scores include Carrie (1976), Tourist Trap (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980) and The Howling (1981).
#PinoDonaggio #Composer #ItalianComposer #FilmScores #FilmSoundtracks #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD
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#HappyBirthday to Guiseppe (Pino) Donaggio, the Italian film / TV composer, musician and singer, born in Venice on this day in 1941. He wrote the international pop hit "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" before his haunting score for Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) triggered a prolific career in lush, inventive #Horror and #Thriller soundtracks...
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Remembering Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (1933-2020), the innovative, multiple Grammy-winning Polish composer and conductor, born in Debica on this day. He rose to international fame via Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, written for 52 strings in 1960, and his place in film history was secured by the haunting use of his work in The Exorcist (1973), The Shining (1980), Wild at Heart (1990) and Shutter Island (2010).
and many memorable, usually antagonistic / aloof horror roles for #Hammer, #Amicus, Anglo-Amalgamated, Herman Cohen (appearing with Joan Crawford in Berserk! and Trog, 1967/70), Antony Balch, Norman J. Warren, Wes Craven and Tim Burton. Fabulous as the domineering, abusive father / husband in Crucible of Horror (1971).
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #Horror #HorrorMovies
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Remembering (Francis) #MichaelGough (1916-2011), the great BAFTA / Tony Award-winning English film, stage and television actor, born in Kuala Lumpur on this day. Equally adept at comic, cuddly and gleefully wicked roles, his screen career spanned eight decades, incorporating two incarnations of Doctor Who, (1966/83), the best ever Alfred Pennyworth (1989/97)...
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He was Dr. Fu Manchu, Imhotep / Ardath Bey, the Satanist Hjalmar Poelzig, private detective James Lee Wong, the body snatcher John Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the vampiric Gorca and the ageing, elegaic former horror star Byron Orlok. We remember the legendary William Henry Pratt, a.k.a. #BorisKarloff (1887-1969), born in Dulwich on this day and a screen presence without equal.
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #Icon #ClassicHorror #HorrorMovies
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A Grammy award winner as the Grinch. A mob boss and an ill-fated inmate for Howard Hawks. A gangster mistaken for #BorisKarloff in Broadway's Arsenic and Old Lace. The host of NBC's Thriller. An indelible #Frankenstein Monster and, later, Baron Victor von Frankenstein and Baron Boris von Frankenstein...
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Terrific as smart, peppy hitchhikers in Carpenter's #TheFog (1980) and Richard Franklin's #RoadGames (1981), as a NYPD rookie in Kathryn Bigelow's #BlueSteel (1990) and a manipulative, murderous matriarch in #MothersBoys (1993). Also, fantastic more recently in Rian Johnson's #KnivesOut (2019).
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#HappyBirthday to #JamieLeeCurtis, the BAFTA-winning American actress, author and producer, born in Santa Monica #onthisday in 1958. The most enduring "Final Girl", she portrayed Haddonfield's resilient survivor Laurie Strode in seven films, across two different timelines, from John Carpenter's #Halloween (1978) to Halloween Ends (2022), appearing with Janet Leigh in Halloween: H20 (1998)...
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