导演/制片人罗杰·科曼从影50年来，执导了50多作品，并制作了300多部影片，其代表作有1956年的《异形征服世界》和1960年的《恐怖小花》。他的电影类型繁多，包括探险片、恐怖片、科幻片、公路片、犯罪片，而且他总是能紧跟时代潮流，创造独具风格的亚类型影片：摇滚电影、青少年恐怖片、飞车党公路片等。
生于密苏里州圣路易市，少时受过美术启蒙。耶鲁大学毕业，获艺术史和英语双学位，后进入伦敦大学获美术史硕士学位。1935年首次登台，演出舞台剧《芝加哥》，接着主演《维克多丽亚·里贾纳》，不久即已是一个知名的戏剧演员。1938年进入电影界，以奸诈或虚伪的反面人物形象给观众留下了深刻...
彼得·洛（原名László Lowenstein ）出生在德国卢森堡，曾是一名银行职员，后在维也纳学习表演，也曾是弗洛伊德的学生，进入表演界后很快成为魏玛共和国时期最受欢迎的明星之一。他被布莱希特·贝托尔特称为“欧洲最好的演员”，弗里茨·朗则给了他杰作《凶手M》中那位性格复...
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.
