Fright Night (1985)
William Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
Actor: Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall was a child star in How Green Was My Valley and Lassie Come Home, and unusually among child performers had a full adult career.
He appeared in four Planet of the Apes films plus the television series, spending years under prosthetics, and Fright Night gave him a late horror lead as a washed-up television presenter. He was a serious photographer whose archive documents Hollywood across five decades.
