Birthdays:

Tom Atkins (November 13, 1935), who starred in The Fog (1980), The Ninth Configuration (1980), Creepshow (1982), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Night of the Creeps (1986), Maniac Cop (1988), Two Evil Eyes (1990; segment: The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar), Bruiser (2000), and My Bloody Valentine (2009).

Atkins in Maniac Cop

Gerard Butler (November 13, 1969), who starred in Tale of the Mummy (1998), Dracula 2000 (2000), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), and The Vanishing (2018).

Butler in Dracula 2000

Movie releases:

1933: The Invisible Man
1987: The Running Man
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1998: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

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