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Al Akkad was born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. [3] He received his high school degree from the Aleppo American College.His father, then a customs officer, gave him $200 and a copy of the Quran before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for her professional partnership with John Carpenter.. Hill and Carpenter wrote four films together: Halloween, The Fog, Halloween II, and Escape from L.A. Independently and as part of Hill/Obst Productions, she produced works for television and film, including The Fisher King, which was ...
"Halloween" (1978) is a classic horror film, but even superfans may not know these fun facts. Jamie Lee Curtis landed a leading role because of her mom, and 16 people have played Michael Myers.
Laurie's friend Annie was the second of three characters that Nancy Kyes (née Loomis) played for John Carpenter — she first appeared in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and later in The Fog.She ...
After multiple TV roles, Jamie Lee Curtis made her big-screen debut in 1978’s Halloween as Laurie Strode, a high school babysitter who is being harassed by Michael Myers after he escapes from ...
Halloween (advertised as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with its producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence , Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles , and Nancy Loomis .
1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the "bullet catch" trick. One of the six marksmen had mistakenly loaded his rifle with a live bullet. 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York, during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River. He had ...