He was one of the most recognizable zombies in film, killed nine people on screen, and even directed his own zombie movie Flesh Eaters. He’s Bill Hinzman, and this week ZRC salutes him!

Bill Hinzman met George Romero in 1961, and worked with him on several commercials and industrial training films until making Night of the Living Dead in 1968. His appearance as the “cemetary zombie” set the bar high for zombie actors for decades to come.

These days Hinzman is still involed in independent movies, both making movies and acting in them. He continues to reprise his role as a zombie in B movies such as The Drunken Dead Guy and Shadow: Dead Riot.

Whenever I walk through a cemetary I’ll always be expecting his iconic face to appear behind a gravestone. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!”

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