This Day in Halloween: "Mystery Science Theater 3000" founding player Trace Beaulieu is born in Minneapolis in 1958. / Illustration by Melissa Kim
Trace Beaulieu is born in Minneapolis in 1958. The actor, writer and puppeteer was part of the group that created and ran, starting in 1988, the first eight seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which mocked scores of horror, sci-fi and action movies of the 1930s to 1970s.
