Birth Name: Wesley Earl Craven
Date of Birth: August 2, 1939
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio
Date of Death: August 30, 2015
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California
Ethnicity: English, German
Wes Craven was an American director, writer, producer, and actor. He directed The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Swamp Thing (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The People Under the Stairs (1991), Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994), all four Scream movies, and Red Eye (2005), among others.
Wes’s paternal grandparents were Eugene Elsworth Craven (the son of Luke Craven and Sarah Hannah Connell) and Maude Lizzie Magoon (the daughter of Edgar Charles Magoon and Frances Charlotte Haskins). Luke was born in Yorkshire, England. Sarah was also English.
Wes’s maternal grandparents were John Turner Miller (the son of Ebenezer Miller and Mary Jane Turner) and Bertha Maria Zimmer (the daughter of Friedrich/Frederick Albert Zimmer and Carolina Albrecht/Albright). Friedrich and Carolina were German.
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