David Emge, who played Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews the helicopter
pilot turned zombie in George A. Romero‘s Dawn of the Dead, has
has died.
Emge’s family shared the news of his death with the Evansville
Courier & Press, a newspaper in his Indiana hometown. He died
Saturday at the West River Health Campus. A cause of death was
not disclosed. He was 77.
1978
Gary Graham in the role of the Vulcan Ambassador Soval
in "Star Trek: Enterprise."
(FOX NEWS) – Actor Gary Graham, known for his roles in several offshoots of ‘Star Trek’ has passed away.
The actor also guest starred in a variety of popular shows
throughout his career, like Starsky and Hutch, The Dukes
of Hazzard, and Moonlighting.
His wife of nearly 25 years, Becky Graham, told Fox News Digital
that the actor died from cardiac arrest on Monday in a Spokane, Washington hospital. He had a history of heart problems, but
Graham says her husband’s 2-day intensive care stay came on
suddenly.
On December 26, 1973, The Exorcist, a horror film starring the
actress Linda Blair as a girl possessed by an evil spirit, made
its debut in theaters; it went on to earn a reputation as one
of the scariest movies in history.
The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller,
and Linda Blair.
It become the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Picture, as well as nine others.
December 16, 2009 saw the premiere of the James Cameron
blockbuster science fiction film Avatar. One of the most
expensive films ever made, it was also one of the most
successful, holding the title of highest-grossing film of all
time for nearly a decade.
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang,
Michelle Rodriquez, and Sigourney Weaver
Director James Cameron (69)
On April 10, 1953, the horror film The House of Wax, starring
Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater
(below)..
Released by Warner Brothers, it was the first movie from a
major motion-picture studio to be shot using the three-
dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process and one of the
first horror films to be shot in color.
Directed by Andre De Toth, The House of Wax was a remake
of 1933’s Mystery in the Wax Museum.
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
