12 Facts About Rondo Hatton

Rondo Hatton was an American journalist and actor.

Rondo Hatton headlined horror films with Universal Studios near the end of his life, earning him a reputation as a cult icon.

Rondo Hatton starred in track and football at Hillsborough High School and was voted Handsomest Boy in his class his senior year.

In Tampa, Rondo Hatton worked as a sportswriter for The Tampa Tribune.

Rondo Hatton continued working as a journalist until after World War I, when the symptoms of acromegaly developed.

Rondo Hatton had another supporting-character role as Gabe Hart, a member of the lynch mob in the 1943 film of The Ox-Bow Incident.

Rondo Hatton made two films playing "the Creeper", House of Horrors and The Brute Man, which were both filmed in 1945 but not released until after his death in 1946.

Around Christmas 1945, Rondo Hatton suffered a series of heart attacks, a direct result of his acromegalic condition.

Rondo Hatton's body was transported to Florida and interred at the American Legion Cemetery in Tampa.

The name "Rondo Hatton" was in a list of suspects obtained by Dredd during the case.

Hatton is regularly name-checked in the novels of Robert Rankin, often referred to as "the now-legendary Rondo Hatton" and credited as appearing in films that are either fictional, or in which he clearly had no part, such as the Carry On films.

The physical award is a representation of Rondo Hatton's face, based on the bust of "The Creeper", whom Rondo Hatton portrayed in the 1946 Universal Pictures film House of Horrors.