Bill Cardille is born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1928. The actor known as “Chilly Billy” is the on-scene reporter in the original Night of the Living Dead, and also appears in Day of the Dead, and the 1990 re-make of NOTLD. As a Pittsburgh TV broadcaster, he hosted the local TV show Chiller Theater. He died in 2016.
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This Day in Halloween: Actor and host of Pittsburgh's long-running "Chiller Theater" Bill Cardille is born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1928. / Illustration by Madison Kemp