Born on this day – Reggie Bannister:

Reggie Bannister

Actor

Musician

Producer

Writer

September 29, 1945 – August 9, 2026

Credits:

Album:

Live At The West Coast Bodega

by Reggie Bannister

Released 2025.
Recorded 1978.

Track list: 4 & 20 (Live); Another Day (Live); Berkley Woman (Live); Love Starved Woman (Live); Just to Please You (Live); Lenny's (Bruce) Song [Live]; Life Line (Live); Long Time (Live); Mr. Moon (Live); Music Stoned Man (Live); Shadow on the Run (Live); Wounded Bird (Live).

Movies and television:

Abolition (2011); Aconite (2005); Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012); Bonejangles (2017); Bubba Ho-Tep (2002); Burned Guys & Dolls (2011); Carnies (2010); Cemetery Gates (2006); Chasing Hollywood (2011); Dead Things / segments: Prologue / The Wish (2005); Deadpit Radio (2005); Death Is No Escape: The Making of Phantasm IV – Oblivion (2017); Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013); Do You Like Scary Movies Podcast (2025); Doctor Spine (2015); Drop Off (1997); Fallen Angels (2006); FEARnet's Movies with More Brains (2011); Girls and Coprses (2017); Halloween Ghouls (2026); Horror Kung-Fu Theatre (1992–2019 / 2022); Inside Bryan (2015); Interstate (2007); Iron Core Talk (2010–2012); It Came from Trafalgar (2009); It's Never Over: The Making of Phantasm III - Lord of the Dead (2017); Jim, the World's Greatest (1975); Journeyman (2005); Kenny & Company (1976); Killer Waves 2 (2020); L.A. Law (1988); Last Rites (2006); Making of 'Bubba Ho-tep' (2004); Metal Man (2008); Necronaut (2007); Not Another B Movie (2010); One for the Road (2011); Phandom (2005); Phantasm (1979); Phantasm II (1988); Phantasm III: Behind the Scenes (2007); Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994); Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998); Phantasm Panel: Texas Frightmare Weekend 2015 (2015); Phantasm V: Ravager - Deleted Scenes (2016); Phantasm V: Ravager - Phuntasm: Blooper and Outtakes (2016); Phantasm: Deleted Scenes (1999); Phantasm: Genesis (2005); Phantasm: Ravager (2016); Phantasmagoria (2005); Phantasmagorical Mystery Tour (2005); Primitive (2011); Psychic Experiment (2010); Red & Blue Marbles (2011); Reflections of Fear: Phantasm (2017); Reflections of Fear: Phantasm II (2017); Reflections of Fear: Phantasm V (2017); Revamped (2007); Satan Hates You (2010); Sawblade (2010); Scare Me: Behind the Screams (2007); Schrödinger's Cat II (2016); Sigma Die! (2007); Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990); Small Town Saturday Night (2010); Song of the Dead (2005); Spring Break Massacre (2008); Stop It, You're Killing Me (2000); Survival Quest (1989); Terror Talk (2019); Text (2008); Text: The Story in the Snow (2008); That Little Monster (1994); The Ball Is Back! The Making of Phantasm II (2013); The Best of Chiller Theatre (1998); The Dead Beat Volume 1 (1990); The Demolitionist (1995); The Final Curtain (2007); The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012); The Horror We Make (2023); The Intruders (2015); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2009); The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (2018); The Mangler Reborn (2005); The Obsidian Curse (2016); The Quiet Ones (2010); The Rage (2007); Transformers Prime (2011); Twiztid: Boogieman (2015); Up Against Amanda (2000); Wishmaster (1997); Women of Phantasm: The Documentary with Balls! (2022); Working with a Master: Don Coscarelli (2006); Zombie Family (2012).

On this day in movie history - Phantasm II (1988)

Phantasm II

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on July 8, 1988.

Music by Fred Myrow and Christopher L. Stone.

Cast:

James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin, Paula Irvine, Samantha Phillips, Kenneth Tigar, Ruth C. Engel, Mark Major, Rubin Kushner, Stacey Travis, J. Patrick McNamara, Amanda Gray, Elizabeth Quezada, Lauren Gray, June Jordan, Megan Gibbons, Craig Murkey, Amanda Gibbons, Troy Fromin, Georgeanna Valdez, Guy Alford, Irene Korman, Ricky Murkey, Katie Carlin, Delia Ortega, Lee Craig, Ramona Ortega, Richard F. Berry, Patrick W. Allen, Phil Fondacaro, Ed Gale.

On this day in movie history - Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on May 6, 1994.

Music by Fred Myrow and Christopher L. Stone.

Cast:

Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Gloria Lynne Henry, Kevin Connors, Cindy Ambuehl, John Davis Chandler, Brooks Gardner, Angus Scrimm, Irene Roseen, Sarah Scott Davis, Duane Tucker, Claire Benedek, Wendy Way, Robert Beecher, Chuck Butto, Beau Lotterman, Paula Irvine, Jennifer Bross, Samantha Phillips, Kathy Lester.

On this day in movie and book history - Phantasm (1979)

Phantasm

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on March 28, 1979.

Music by Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave.

Cast:

A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus, Kenneth V. Jones, Susan Harper, Lynn Eastman-Rossi, David Arntzen, Ralph Richmond, Bill Cone, Laura Mann, Mary Ellen Shaw, Myrtle Scotton, Angus Scrimm, Dac Coscarelli, Kate Coscarelli.

Recommended reading:

Phantasm - The Novel

by Kate Coscarelli.

Based on the Original Screenplay by Don Coscarelli.

ASIN: B000NGVKQ4

Published by Pulp Xmachina.

Published 2002.

Description:

Young Mike Peterson has a problem.

His brother Jody is about to hit the road, two years after the tragic death of his parents. Terrified of being left alone by the one person he holds most dear, Mike becomes obsessed with shadowing his brother, peeping in on bar-hopping and midnight make-out sessions.

Until one gloomy morning, his snooping turns up more than he could have imagined: the horrifying, ancient secret of THE TALL MAN. And as the terrors mount, each unfolding like the twisted threads of some bizarre fever dream, the line between fantasy and reality blurs, setting Mike and Jody off on a desperate spiral of adventure and madness... until the final horror must be confronted within the darkest depths of a nightmare that never ends.

PHANTASM, is it a fantasy? An illusion? Whatever it is... if this novel doesn't scare you, you're already dead!

On this day in movie history - Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

Phantasm IV: Oblivion

a.k.a. Phantasm: Oblivion

directed and written by Don Coscarelli,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1998.

Music by Christopher L. Stone.

Cast:

A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Angus Scrimm, Christopher L. Stone, Chloe Kay, Sylvia Flammer, David Gasster, Sasha Kassel, Aidan Kassel, Eric Avary, Andy John, George A. Craig, Steven C. Kassel, Robert Gates, Todd Mecklem, Jason Jacobs, Michael Perkins, Colin Jessup, Stanley Potter, Roger Avary, Bret Schweinfurth, Robert Tomaszewski.