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Boris Karloff

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November 23, 1887

February 2, 1969

William Henry Pratt

Grace Harding (1910-1913)

Olive de Wilton (m. 1915)

Montana Laurena Williams (m. 1920)

Helene Vivian Soule (1924-1928)

Dorothy Stine (1928-1946)

Evelyn Hope Helmore (1946-1969)

The Incredible Invasion (1971)

La muerte viviente (1971)

El coleccionista de cadáveres (1970)

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

"The Jonathan Winters Show" (TV)

"The Name of the Game" (TV)

"The Red Skelton Show" (TV)

Targets (1968)

The Fear Chamber (1968)

House of Evil (1968)

The Sorcerers (1967)

Mad Monster Party? (1967) (voice)

"I Spy" (TV)

The Venetian Affair (1967)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) (TV) (voice)

"The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." (TV)

"The Wild Wild West" (TV)

The Daydreamer (1966) (voice)

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

"Shindig!" (TV)

"The Entertainers" (TV)

"The Garry Moore Show" (TV)

"Hollywood and the Stars" (TV)

Mondo balordo (1964)

Bikini Beach (1964)

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

I tre volti della paura (1963) (TV)

"I've Got a Secret" (TV)

The Terror (1963)

The Raven (1963)

"Route 66" (TV)

"The Dickie Henderson Show" (TV)

The Paradine Case (1962) (TV)

"Out of This World" (TV)

"Hallmark Hall of Fame" (TV)

"Thriller" (TV)

"Sunday Showcase" (TV)

The Secret World of Eddie Hodges (1960) (TV)

"The Gale Storm Show" (TV)

"The DuPont Show of the Month" (TV)

"Playhouse 90" (TV)

"General Electric Theater" (TV)

"Tonight Starring Jack Paar" (TV)

"The Betty White Show" (1958) (TV)

"The Lux Show" (TV)

"The Veil" (TV)

Corridors of Blood (1958)

Frankenstein - 1970 (1958)

Grip of the Strangler (1958)

The Juggler of Our Lady (1958) (voice)

"Studio One" (TV)

"Shirley Temple's Storybook" (TV)

"Telephone Time" (TV)

"The Veil" (TV)

"Suspicion" (TV)

"Lux Video Theatre" (TV)

"This Is Your Life" (TV)

"Dinah Shore Show" (TV)

"The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (TV)

"The Rosemary Clooney Show" (TV)

Voodoo Island (1957)

"Colonel March of Scotland Yard" (TV)

"Climax!" (TV)

"The Alcoa Hour" (TV)

"The United States Steel Hour" (TV)

"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (TV)

"Frankie Laine Time" (TV)

A Connecticut Yankee (1955) (TV)

"The Elgin Hour" (TV)

"The Best of Broadway" (TV)

"The Donald O'Connor Show" (TV)

"Down You Go" TV series

"Truth or Consequences" (TV)

"The George Gobel Show" (TV)

Sabaka (1954)

Il mostro dell'isola (1954)

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)

"Who Said That?" (TV)

"Suspense" (TV)

"ABC Album" (TV)

"Tales of Tomorrow" (TV)

"Robert Montgomery Presents" (TV)

"Hollywood Opening Night" (TV)

"The Milton Berle Show" (TV)

"The Eyes Have It" (TV)

"That Reminds Me" (TV)

"Four Star Revue" (TV)

The Black Castle (1952)

"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (TV)

"Curtain Call" (TV)

"CBS Television Workshop" (TV)

The Strange Door (1951)

"The Fred Waring Show" (TV)

"What's My Line?" (TV)

"The Jack Carter Show" (TV)

"The Milton Berle Show" (TV)

"Lights Out" (TV)

"Masterpiece Playhouse" (TV)

"The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue" (TV)

"Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet" (TV)

"The Perry Como Show" (TV)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

"The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre" (TV)

"Starring Boris Karloff" (1949) TV series

Cisaruv slavík (1949) (voice: English version)

"The Ford Theatre Hour" (TV)

Tap Roots (1948)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Unconquered(1947)

Lured (1947)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Bedlam (1946)

Isle of the Dead (1945)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

House of Frankenstein (1944)

The Climax (1944)

The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942)

Information Please: Series 2, No. 12 (1941)

The Devil Commands (1941)

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940)

You'll Find Out (1940)

The Ape (1940)

Before I Hang (1940)

Doomed to Die (1940)

The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

Black Friday (1940)

British Intelligence (1940)

The Fatal Hour (1940)

Tower of London (1939)

The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Devil's Island (1939)

Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

The Invisible Menace (1938)

West of Shanghai (1937)

Cinema Circus (1937)

Night Key (1937)

Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)

The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)

Juggernaut (1936)

The Walking Dead (1936)

The Invisible Ray (1936)

The Black Room (1935)

Hollywood Hobbies (1935)

The Raven (1935)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Gift of Gab (1934)

The Black Cat (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

The Lost Patrol (1934)

The Ghoul (1933)

The Mummy (1932)

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)(uncredited)

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

The Old Dark House (1932)

Night World (1932)

The Miracle Man (1932)

Scarface (1932)

Business and Pleasure (1932)

Behind the Mask (1932)

Tonight or Never (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Guilty Generation (1931)

The Mad Genius (1931) (uncredited)

The Yellow Ticket (1931)

Five Star Final (1931)

Graft (1931)

I Like Your Nerve (1931)

The Public Defender (1931)

Smart Money (1931) (uncredited)

Young Donovan's Kid (1931)

The Vanishing Legion (1931) (voice)(uncredited)

Cracked Nuts (1931)

King of the Wild (1931)

The Criminal Code (1931)

Sous les verrous (1931)

The Utah Kid (1930)

The Sea Bat (1930)

The Bad One (1930)

The Unholy Night (1929) (uncredited)

The King of the Kongo (1929)

Behind That Curtain (1929)

The Phantom of the North (1929)

Anne Against the World (1929)

Two Sisters (1929)

The Devil's Chaplain (1929)

The Fatal Warning (1929)

Burning the Wind (1929)

The Little Wild Girl (1928)

Vultures of the Sea (1928)

The Vanishing Rider (1928)

Sharp Shooters (1928) (uncredited)

The Love Mart (1927)

Two Arabian Knights (1927)

Soft Cushions (1927)

The Phantom Buster (1927)

The Meddlin' Stranger (1927)

Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)

The Princess from Hoboken (1927)

Let It Rain (1927)

The General (1926) (uncredited)

Old Ironsides (1926) (uncredited)

Flaming Fury (1926)

The Nickel-Hopper (1926) (uncredited)

The Eagle of the Sea (1926) (uncredited)

Flames (1926)

The Golden Web (1926)

The Bells (1926)

Her Honor, the Governor (1926)

The Man in the Saddle (1926)

The Greater Glory (1926)

Without Mercy (1925) (uncredited)

Perils of the Wild (1925)

Lady Robinhood (1925)

Parisian Nights (1925)

The Prairie Wife (1925)

Forbidden Cargo (1925)

Dynamite Dan (1924)

Riders of the Plains (1924)

The Hellion (1924)

The Prisoner (1923)

Omar the Tentmaker (1922)

The Woman Conquers (1922)

The Altar Stairs (1922)

The Man from Downing Street (1922)

The Infidel (1922)

Nan of the North (1922) (uncredited)

The Cave Girl (1921)

Cheated Hearts (1921)

Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)

The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921)

The Last of the Mohicans (1920) (uncredited)

The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920)

The Deadlier Sex (1920)

The Prince and Betty (1919)

His Majesty, the American (1919)(uncredited)

The Masked Rider (1919)

The Lightning Raider (1919)

Walk of Fame

Won Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture at 1735 Vine Street.

Won Star on the Walk of Fame Television At 6664 Hollywood Blvd.




Boris Karloff As The Mummy Boris Karloff As Dracula Boris Karloff As Fu Manchu Boris Karloff As Frankstein

Boris Karloff was in his early forties when James Whale cast him as The Monster in Frankenstein (1931). An Anglo-Indian from a family prominent in diplomatic and social circles, young Billy Pratt chose a life on the stage and emigrated from England to Canada in 1909, reinventing himself as the foreign-sounding "Boris Karloff." He toured Canada and the United States in stock companies for ten years, arriving in California to spend the 1920s as a busy film actor, mostly in bit part ethnic roles, with a specialty in fur trappers of the northern woods.

Karloff's Caligari-like mesmerist in The Bells (1926) is an early indication of an aptitude for the macabre. After a showcase part as a murdering convict in The Criminal Code (1931), his British lisp and brutal face often fetured in gangster pictures - he is memorably gunned down in a bowling alley in Scarface (1932). In Frankenstein, sporting the classic Jack P. Pierce makeup and bereft of dialogue, he gives a remarkable, affecting performance, eclipsing Bela Lugosi as the movies' leading horror man. Whale retained Karloff as another grunting brute in The Old Dark House (1932), but Karloff soon showed (The Mask of Fu Manchu, 1932; The Ghoul, 1933) he could talk as well as emote through makeup, and his distinctive, often-imitated tones became as essential to the horror film as the flat-headed and big-booted look of The Monster.

He reunited with Whale for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), in which he resisted the idea that The Monster talk ("Alone: bad. Friend: good!"), yet delivered another heartbreaking performance. When horror was out of fashion, he found work as exotics or genial comedy menaces. But he was central to successive waves of horror - outstanding for Val Lewton (The Body Snatcher, 1945), amusing for Roger Corman (The Raven, 1963) and, in his last years, melancholy for Michael Reeves (The Sorcerers, 1967) and Peter Bogdanovich (Targets, 1968).

Although remembered by the public for his penchant for the gruesome, among family, friends, and the industry he was known for his kindness and compassion, notably for his work as a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Creating The Monster

Karloff was not first choice to play The Monster, but he made the role his own:

Not a big man in real life, clever makeup, shoe supports, and padding added to Karloff's screen presence. Unfortunately, the heavy brace that was integral to his costume led to back problems, and he underwent several operations as a result. In later years, he was often offered parts in a wheelchair to help ease the pain.

Karloff's Monster does not look like Mary Shelley's character. Makeup artist Jack P. Pierce invented the flat head, heavy eyelids, and bolts through the neck.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.


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