This Day in Halloween: Shakespeare, Broadway, opera-trained actor and "Blacula" star William Marshall is born in Gary, Indiana in 1924.
William Marshall is born in Gary, Indiana in 1924. The Shakespeare, Broadway and opera-trained actor is best known for playing Blacula in the blaxploitation classics Blacula, and Scream Blacula Scream in the 1970s. He died in 2003.