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8 unusual facts about Boris Karloff


Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

The illustrations themselves are not based upon the Karloff or Lee films of old, but on the actual book's descriptions of characters and objects.

Beverly Washburn

She also portrayed the character Lolly Howard in the 1961 episode "Parasite Mansion" of Boris Karloff's NBC suspense series, Thriller.

Irene Ware

Irene appeared in 29 films between 1932-1940, and is mostly remembered for her roles as Princess Nadji in Chandu the Magician (1932) with Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi, and as Boris Karloff's and Lugosi's leading lady in 1935's The Raven.

Mae Clarke

Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was an American actress most noted for playing Dr. Frankenstein's bride, chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for having a grapefruit smashed into her face by James Cagney in The Public Enemy -- both films released in 1931.

Myrna Fahey

Her image branched out in the 1960s, helped by House of Usher and a role on the Boris Karloff-hosted TV series Thriller that same year entitled 'Girl With A Secret'.

Regina Cyclone

English actor William Henry Pratt, better known by his stage name "Boris Karloff," was in Regina at the time of the tornado as a member of the Jeanne Russell Players, a struggling company of actors and singers.

Boris Karloff, Jeanne Russell, Henrietta Crosman, and the Albini-Avolos are all characters in BD Miller's musical drama, "Swept Off Our Feet: Boris Karloff and the Regina Cyclone," which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the disaster and premièred as a July 2012 production of Regina Summer Stage.

The Cool Ghoul

Von Hoene could do an uncanny vocal impersonation of horror icon Boris Karloff, and so he was also the off-screen voice announcer for the show.


Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II

In the early 1950s, he was a regular panelist on the NBC game show Who Said That? along with H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, and American actress Dagmar.

Boulder Dam Hotel

The hotel has seen a number of celebrity visitors, including Boris Karloff, Shirley Temple and then-Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway.

CBS Television Workshop

The first episode, which premiered on January 13, 1952, is a dramatized 30 minute version of Don Quixote starring Boris Karloff and directed by Sidney Lumet.

Cricket Records

Among established name artists to appear on Cricket were Gene Autry, William Bendix, Smiley Burnette, Bobby Colt, Dennis Day, Eddie Dean, Leif Erickson, Ray Heatherton, Boris Karloff, Maury Laws, Gisele MacKenzie, Norman Rose and David Wayne.

Daniel C. Gerould

“At that time many Broadway-bound productions tried out first in Boston, and I remember Ethel Barrymore in The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams and Arsenic and Old Lace with Boris Karloff. I felt myself a seasoned spectator, was at home among audiences, and was always ready to applaud bravura displays of virtuoso acting.”

Edward L. Alperson

Grand National initially began with a variety of low budgeted films such as Westerns with Tex Ritter, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted and cowgirl Dorothy Page, adventure films shot in Cinecolor, melodramas such as In His Steps based on the book of the same name, and released British films such as Boris Karloff's Juggernaut.

House of Dracula

Although Glenn Strange appears as the Monster in most of the film, footage of Chaney as the Monster from The Ghost of Frankenstein and Boris Karloff from Bride of Frankenstein was recycled; Karloff appears in a dream sequence.

Kiwi Kingston

Ernie "Kiwi" Kingston was a wrestler and film actor from New Zealand, relatively unknown, but still remembered for his role as the Karloff-like Frankenstein Monster in Hammer's The Evil of Frankenstein (1964).

Les Trottoirs de Bangkok

The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of adventure, crime and mystery with comic book dialogue and still features naked women and sex, something his films are well known for.

Luis Enrique Vergara

During the two decades that Vergara wrote and produced films he worked with many actors and actress that included, Susana Dosamantes, Macaria, Altia Michel, Isela Vega, John Carradine, and Boris Karloff.

Raiders of the Living Dead

A reporter (Robert Deveau) on the trail of the story is helped by the town librarian, played in her final film role by Zita Johann (Boris Karloff's The Mummy, The Sin of Nora Moran).

Third Dimensional Murder

The latter character was specifically modeled after Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein.


see also

Doone

The Courage of Marge O'Doone, 1920 drama film directed by David Smith and featuring Boris Karloff