May 12, 2022

This Day in Halloween: Veteran film and TV actor John Barclay is born in Bletchingly, Surrey, England in 1892. / Illustration by Cesar Arias

John Barclay is born in Bletchingly, Surrey, England in 1892. The tall actor’s long career stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s and includes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, The Brotherhood of Satan, The Night Gallery TV series and Soylent Green. He died in 1978.