Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974)

Moorehead played the mother, Endora, on the ABC- TV series Bewitched
(1964-1972). She won Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for
her roles in the 1945 movie Mrs. Tarkington and the 1965 film Hush…Hush,
Sweet Charlotte. She received four Academy Award nominations for Best
Supporting Actress from 1943 to 1965, but never became a winner. The 
actress graduated with a degree in Biology from Muskingum College in
Ohio.

 
Agnes Moorehead in a Twilight Zone episode, The Invaders (1961).

Moorehead performing in "Sorry, Wrong
Number" on a CBS-radio progam.

Karloff as Frankenstein

Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt in England) 
(November 23, 1887- February 2, 1969)

Horror actor Boris Karloff played the monster in the 1931 movie Frankenstein. He
also starred in the sequels Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein
in 1939. He was also the title monster in the 1932 horror film The Mummy. His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated
television special of Dr. Seuss‘s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). Prior to becoming an actor, Karloff was employed as a farm laborer.

Tim Maguire

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is having her 53rd birthday today.

Foster graduated from Yale’s prestigious theater program magna cum laude
in 1985 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in
1997.

1991

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)

Scottish born author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the classic adventure
novel Treasure Island, and the psychological thriller The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was a late reader, starting at about age seven
or eight, but he wrote incessantly as a child, even to the discouragement
of his father. He agreed to study law at Edinburgh University to appease
his father, but he continued to pursue a literary career during his young
adulthood.

Hansen in character as Leatherface.

Gunnar Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015)

Gunnar Hansen, who terrorized moviegoers as the psychotic, chainsaw-
wielding Leatherface in 1974’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” has died. 

According to his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, Hansen died Saturday evening of
pancreatic cancer at his home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Eisenstadt
described Hansen’s “Chainsaw” character as “one of the most iconic evil
figures in the history of cinema.”

Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and moved to the U.S. when he was
five. He lived in Maine until age eleven, when his family moved to Texas, where
he attended both Austin High School and the University of Texas at Austin. He
majored in English and mathematics as an undergraduate, and then went to
graduate school in Scandinavian Studies and English.