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Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr. was an American actor and film director. Nicol appeared in many Westerns including The Man from Laramie. He appeared in more than forty feature films as well as directin
Nicol in The Screaming Skull, 1958
Poster for Nicol's directorial debut, The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull
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The Screaming Skull is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white horror film, produced by John Kneubuhl and directed by Alex Nicol, starring John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johns
Alex Nicol
…Nicol starred with Shelley Winters in the play Saturday Night Kid (1958). He then returned to Hollywood where he made his first film as a director, The Screaming Skull (1958), in which he also acted. I wasn't doing the kind of films as an actor that I wanted to do, so I thought, "Well, I'll try directing." We shot the…
An opening prologue explains that The Screaming Skull is so frightening that it may kill its viewers.
Jon Hudson and Peggy Webber