Boris Karloff

The outline of Boris Karloff in his full Frankenstein makeup remains to this day one of horror cinema’s most enduring images. An immensely versatile actor, he gave accomplished performances in many non-horror movies, but his astonishing performance as the monster in James Whale’s classic came to define his career; but whereas many other actors would have come to resent such a ubiquitous role, Karloff was always proud to be associated with the character, and cherished the acclaim and popularity it brought him. Read more

George A Romero

A New Yorker by birth (4th February 1940 if you were thinking of sending him a card) George Romero has made Pittsburgh his spiritual and artistic home. It was there that he attended the renowned Carnegie Mellon Institute, and he found work in the city after graduation turning out industrial films, commercials and short films with his first production company-The Latent Image. This was never enough to satisfy someone who’d been making films on an old 8mm since the age of 14 though, and in the late 1960s he got together with a group of friends and formed Image Ten Productions, one of many small-scale independent film companies that was springing up across America at the time. Read more