"following year and later in ""Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"". ""House of Frankenstein"" marked Glenn Strange's debut as the monster. Strange, a former cowboy, had been a minor supporting player in dozens of low-budget Westerns over the preceding 15 years. He reprised the role in ""House of Dracula"" and ""Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"", and cemented the popular image of the monster as shambling, clumsy, and inarticulate. Boris Karloff, who had moved on from playing the monster to playing the mad scientist, reportedly coached Strange on how to play the role. The scream that accompanies Daniel's fall from the roof"
"Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (), was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in ""Frankenstein"" (1931), ""Bride of Frankenstein"" (1935) and ""Son of Frankenstein"" (1939). He also appeared as Imhotep in ""The Mummy"" (1932). In non-horror roles, he is best known to modern audiences for narrating and as the voice of Grinch in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss' ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (1966). For his contribution to film and television, Boris"
"Colin Clive Colin Clive (born Colin Glenn Clive-Greig; 20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was a British-American stage and screen actor. His most memorable role was Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 monster film ""Frankenstein"" and its 1935 sequel, ""Bride of Frankenstein"". Clive was born in Saint-Malo, France, to an English colonel, Colin Philip Greig, and his wife, Caroline Margaret Lugard Clive. He attended Stonyhurst College and subsequently Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. Clive created the role of Steve Baker, the white husband of"
"Monster Movie Stamps"" issued in September 1997. In 1998, an English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled in his hometown in London. The British film magazine ""Empire"" in 2016 ranked Karloff's portrayal as Frankenstein's monster the sixth-greatest horror movie character of all time. Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (), was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in ""Frankenstein"" (1931), ""Bride of Frankenstein"" (1935) and ""Son of Frankenstein"" (1939). He also appeared as Imhotep in ""The"
"Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Mae Clarke as his fiancée Elizabeth. For the Monster, he turned to an unknown actor named Boris Karloff. Shooting began on 24 August 1931 and wrapped on 3 October. Previews were held 29 October, with wide release on 21 November. ""Frankenstein"" was an instant hit with critics and the public. The film received glowing reviews and shattered box office records across the United States, earning Universal $12 million on first release. Next from Whale were ""The Impatient Maiden"" and ""The Old Dark House"" (both 1932). ""The Impatient Maiden"" made little impression but ""The Old"
"as a man with graying hair and a mustache. The most significant creation during Pierce's time at the studio was ""Frankenstein"" (1931), with Lugosi originally cast as the Monster. The preliminary design (from contemporary newspaper accounts and a recollection of the screen test by actor Edward Van Sloan) was similar to Paul Wegener's German film of """" (1920); this is not surprising, since studio head Carl Laemmle Jr. and director Robert Florey were both familiar with German Expressionist films. When James Whale replaced Florey as director, the concept was radically changed. Pierce came up with a design which was horrific"
"(sometimes called an ""and-as"" credit). This is not the case if that character is unseen for most of the movie (see Ernst Stavro Blofeld). An early last billing credit in a film's opening simply listed a question mark (?) as portraying the monster in the 1931 classic ""Frankenstein"", which still lists it that way today, although the reissued prints seen today add actor Boris Karloff to the end credit listings, as the film made him a huge star such that the credits of the film's first sequel ""The Bride of Frankenstein"" credits him only by his last name. One of"
"Edward Van Sloan Edward Van Sloan (November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) was an American film character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as ""Dracula"" (1931), ""Frankenstein"" (1931), and ""The Mummy"" (1932). He died in 1964 in California, at age 81. Van Sloan's roles in Universal's films date from the 1930s, including ""Dracula"" (1931), ""Frankenstein"" (1931), and ""The Mummy"" (1932). In the first of these, he played Professor Van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter, a role he had first taken in the successful touring production of ""Dracula"" by Hamilton Deane and John L."
"a toga, shaded, along with the monster's skin, a pale blue. Throughout the 19th century, the monster's image remained variable according to the artist. The best-known image of Frankenstein's monster in popular culture derives from Boris Karloff's portrayal in the 1931 movie ""Frankenstein,"" in which he wore makeup applied, and according to a format designed by, Jack P. Pierce and possibly suggested by director James Whale. Universal Studios, which released the film, was quick to secure ownership of the copyright for the makeup format. Karloff played the monster in two more Universal films, ""Bride of Frankenstein"" and ""Son of Frankenstein"";"
"acclaimed Tod Browning-directed screen production of ""Dracula"". He died in 1964 at age 81. Edward Van Sloan Edward Van Sloan (November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) was an American film character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as ""Dracula"" (1931), ""Frankenstein"" (1931), and ""The Mummy"" (1932). He died in 1964 in California, at age 81. Van Sloan's roles in Universal's films date from the 1930s, including ""Dracula"" (1931), ""Frankenstein"" (1931), and ""The Mummy"" (1932). In the first of these, he played Professor Van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter, a role he had first"
"also as the titular pirate in George Bernard Shaw's ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" at the Court Theatre in 1906. In addition to his stage career, Kerr also appeared in 19 films between 1916 and 1933. He is best known as the old Baron Frankenstein in ""Frankenstein"" (1931). His memoirs were published in 1930 under the title ""Recollections of a Defective Memory"". Kerr's wife was Lucy Dowson — they had one son, Geoffrey Kerr, who followed in his father's theatrical footsteps. His grandson was actor John Kerr. Kerr was a heavy smoker and suffered from obesity in his later years. He died"
"Frankenstein (1973 film) Frankenstein is a 1973 American television movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"" adapted by Sam Hall and ""Dark Shadows"" creator Dan Curtis, with Robert Foxworth in the title role and Bo Svenson as the Monster. The Robert Cobert score was not original to this film. Cobert used musical cues from ""Dark Shadows"" and Dan Curtis' adaptation of ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."" The film was shown over two nights on ""ABC's Wide World of Mystery"". Part 1 of the film was shown on the same night, and on the same network, as"
"Lionel Belmore Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867 – 30 January 1953) was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century. Onstage, Belmore appeared with Wilson Barrett, Sir Henry Irving, William Faversham, Lily Langtry, and other famous actors. He entered in films from 1911. In total, he had some 200 titles to his film credit. He was notable as the huffy-puffy Herr Vogel the Burgomaster in ""Frankenstein"" (1931). Belmore played bit parts in several 1930s film classics. Unusually, he was a director before he became a prolific actor. He directed from 1914 to"
"creature as portrayed by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film directed by James Whale. Frankenstein is an undead body composed of parts from several corpses stitched together, created by Victor Frankenstein some time in the 19th century. He was assumed dead in Europe when he sank beneath the ice, but he survived and swam to America, having 'many adventures'. He was revived by Victor Adam, and vowed vengeance for restoring him to life, successfully killing him, but accidentally bringing about a coma for Doctor Thirteen's wife, Maria, in the process. In particular, Frankenstein became a frequent enemy of Melmoth, who"
"John Boles (actor) John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film ""Frankenstein"". Boles was born in Greenville, Texas to a middle-class family. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1917. He returned to Greenville, where he was selected by an out-of-town producer to act in an opera at the King Opera House. This experience convinced John that he preferred music and the stage to the preference of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a medical degree. While en route to a"
"It to Death"". On stage, this song would be portrayed with Cooper in a straitjacket trying to escape, and finally breaking free at the end of the song to strangle the nurse with the ties. Dwight Frye Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in ""Dracula"" (1931) and Fritz in ""Frankenstein"" (1931). Frye was born in Salina, Kansas and studied for a career in music and"
"on their dramatic work. Balderston had a low regard for Webling's play, calling it ""illiterate"" and ""inconceivably crude"". Neither the 1927 nor the 1930 version of Webling's play ""RASNIL"" has been published. Peggy Webling Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet. Her 1927 play version of Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" is notable for naming the creature ""Frankenstein"" after its creator, and for being the inspiration of the classic 1931 film directed by James Whale. She was born Margaret Webling in Westminster, England; her father was a silversmith and jeweler. Peggy and her"
"Dwight Frye Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his portrayals of neurotic, murderous villains in several classic Universal horror films, such as Renfield in ""Dracula"" (1931) and Fritz in ""Frankenstein"" (1931). Frye was born in Salina, Kansas and studied for a career in music and first appeared as a concert pianist. In the 1920s, he made his name as a stage actor, often in comedies. In 1924, he played the Son in a production of Luigi Pirandello's ""Six Characters in"
"centuries!'"" Unlike the well-known ""Frankenstein"" film from 1931 by Universal Studios, the Hammer films revolved mainly around Victor Frankenstein, rather than his monster. Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster wrote the protagonist as an ambitious, egotistical and coldly intellectual scientist who despised his contemporaries. Unlike the character from the novel and past film versions, Cushing's Frankenstein commits vicious crimes to attain his goals, including the murder of a colleague to obtain a brain for his creature. ""The Curse of Frankenstein"" also featured Cushing's ""Hamlet"" co-star Christopher Lee, who played Frankenstein's monster. Cushing and Lee became extremely close friends, and would remain so for"
"modern-day versions of their classic Universal Monsters, with various films in different stages of development. In June 2017, producer/director Alex Kurtzman revealed that ""Frankenstein"" is one of the films that will have an installment in the Dark Universe. Javier Bardem is cast to portray the titular character. But on November 8, 2017, Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan moved on to other projects, leaving the future of the ""Dark Universe"" in doubt. Frankenstein (1931 film) Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures is about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a"
"Peggy Webling Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet. Her 1927 play version of Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" is notable for naming the creature ""Frankenstein"" after its creator, and for being the inspiration of the classic 1931 film directed by James Whale. She was born Margaret Webling in Westminster, England; her father was a silversmith and jeweler. Peggy and her sisters Josephine, Rosalind and Lucy were precocious at performing amateur theatricals in London, and gained the acquaintance of actress Ellen Terry, and authors Lewis Carroll and John Ruskin. She spent time in"
"Wolf Man"" and ""The Ghost of Frankenstein"". Immediately following his success in ""Dracula"", Bela Lugosi had been the first choice to play the Monster in Universal's original ""Frankenstein"" film, but Lugosi famously turned down the nonspeaking, heavily made-up role: as conceived by the original director Robert Florey, the Monster was nothing more than a mindless killing machine and not suitable for Lugosi's rising stardom and career as a leading actor. After the change of directors to James Whale, along with a major script and conceptual revision, the virtually unknown Boris Karloff was then cast in his star-making role. (Florey later"
"Lon Chaney Jr. Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film ""The Wolf Man"" (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward), Frankenstein's monster in ""The Ghost of Frankenstein"" (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films. He also portrayed Lennie Small in ""Of Mice and Men"" (1939) and supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies. Originally referenced in films as Creighton Chaney, he was later credited as ""Lon Chaney, Jr."""
"films, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1934), ""The Letter"", ""The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu"", ""The Mighty"", ""The Wheel of Life"", ""The Bad Man"", ""The Swan"", ""Too Young to Marry"", ""One Romantic Night"", ""East Lynne"" (1931), ""Playboy of Paris"", ""Sunny"", ""Madame Jule"", ""Devotion"", ""Peck's Bad Boy"", ""Ginger"", and ""Smilin' Through"" between 1928 and his death in 1936. O. P. Heggie Oliver Peters Heggie (17 September 1877 – 7 February 1936), billed as O. P. Heggie, was an Australian film and theatre actor best known for portraying the hermit who befriends the Monster in the 1935 film ""Bride of Frankenstein"". He"
"film stars Mae Clarke as Myra, a chorus girl in World War I London who becomes a prostitute. It too was a critical and popular success. At around this time, Whale and Lewis began living together. In 1931, Universal chief Carl Laemmle, Jr. offered Whale his choice of any property the studio owned. He chose ""Frankenstein"", mostly because none of Universal's other properties particularly interested him and he wanted to make something other than a war picture. While the novel itself was in the public domain, Universal owned the filming rights to a stage adaptation by Peggy Webling. Whale cast"
"(1942). Chaney was then given the title role in ""The Wolf Man"" (1941) for Universal, a role which, much like Karloff's Frankenstein monster, would largely typecast Chaney as a horror film actor for the rest of his life. Chaney Jr was now an official horror star, and Universal gave him the role of Frankenstein's Monster in ""The Ghost of Frankenstein"" (1942) when Karloff decided not to play the part again. He was in a crime film, ""Eyes of the Underworld"" (1942) and the wartime shorts ""Keeping Fit"" (1942) and ""What We Are Fighting For"" (1943). Chaney Jr played Kharis the"
"height on January 15, 1999 in his home city of Los Angeles. John Bloom (actor) John Bloom (February 19, 1944 – January 15, 1999) was an American actor. Standing at 7' 4"" (224 cm) tall, he is most famous for his roles as Frankenstein's Monster in the low-budget horror movie ""Dracula vs. Frankenstein"", and the unfortunate recipient in ""The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant"". He also had a role in ""The Dark"" then parts in ""Bachelor Party"", ""The Hills Have Eyes Part II"", ""Harry and the Hendersons"", and """" followed. He played the blacksmith ""Tiny"" on the TV series ""Paradise"" and ""Guns"
"tribute to it as an influence on their work. Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 80%, based on , with a rating average of 7/10. Unlike the Universal Frankenstein series of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the character of the Monster was the recurring figure while the doctors frequently changed, it is Baron Frankenstein that is the connective character throughout the Hammer series, while the monsters change. Peter Cushing played the Baron in each film except for ""The Horror of Frankenstein"", which was a remake of the original ""The Curse of Frankenstein"" done with a"
"decade. Television appearances are listed separately. Lon Chaney Jr. Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film ""The Wolf Man"" (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward), Frankenstein's monster in ""The Ghost of Frankenstein"" (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films. He also portrayed Lennie Small in ""Of Mice and Men"" (1939) and supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies. Originally referenced in films as Creighton Chaney, he was"
"Frankenstein (1910 film) Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios. It was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This 12-minute short film was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"". The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée. Described as ""a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's famous story"", the plot description in the ""Edison Kinetogram"" was: Dawley, working for the Edison Company, shot the film in three to four days at the Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York City. The production"
"John Bloom (actor) John Bloom (February 19, 1944 – January 15, 1999) was an American actor. Standing at 7' 4"" (224 cm) tall, he is most famous for his roles as Frankenstein's Monster in the low-budget horror movie ""Dracula vs. Frankenstein"", and the unfortunate recipient in ""The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant"". He also had a role in ""The Dark"" then parts in ""Bachelor Party"", ""The Hills Have Eyes Part II"", ""Harry and the Hendersons"", and """" followed. He played the blacksmith ""Tiny"" on the TV series ""Paradise"" and ""Guns of Paradise."" Bloom died from heart failure brought on by his immense"
"Gable's first speaking role; the 1946 remake of ""Of Human Bondage""; ""Always Leave Them Laughing"", starring Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo; and 1958's ""Our Miss Brooks"" starring Eve Arden. But Kolster's crowning achievement was his first mega-hit, the 1931 version of ""Frankenstein"", starring Boris Karloff. Kolster's editing of when the monster is revealed has been called, ""... possibly the most distinguished piece of cutting in all of horror movie history."" In addition, the creation sequence, the monster finding the small child by the lake, and the confrontation between the monster and Frankenstein's bride, have all become iconic scenes in film"
"friend Leigh Hunt. ""This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good."" Within a decade of publication, the name of the creator—Frankenstein—was used to refer to the creature, but it did not become firmly established until much later. The story was adapted for the stage in 1927 by Peggy Webling, and Webling's Victor Frankenstein does give the creature his name. However, the creature has no name in the Universal film series starring Boris Karloff during the 1930s, which was largely based upon Webling's play. The 1931 Universal film treated the creature's identity in a similar way as Shelley's novel:"