Boris Karloff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Boris Karloff (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny". His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch in the television special of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Description above from the Wikipedia article Boris Karloff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Nov 23, 1887 In East Dulwich, London, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 172
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Lightning Raider 1919-01-02
- Latest Project:
- Movie Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film 2014-08-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film | Various roles (archive footage) | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02) | Self (archive footage) | 2013-08-14 |
| Movie | He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce | Self (archive footage) | 2008-07-09 |
| Movie | Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-16 |
| Movie | Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-10-24 |
| Movie | Terror in the Tropics | Mr. Wong (archive footage) | 2006-01-31 |
| Movie | Lugosi: The Dark Prince | Self (archive footage) | 2006-09-26 |
| Movie | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made | Dr. Bernard Adrian (archive footage) | 2004-07-13 |
| Movie | The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | Self (archive footage) | 2002-11-01 |
| Movie | Heroes of Horror | (archive footage) | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | The American Nightmare | Self | 2000-09-11 |
| Movie | Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed | Self (archive footage) | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' | Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998-10-08 |
| Movie | Bride of Chucky | Clips from 'Bride of Frankenstein' (archive footage) | 1998-10-16 |
| Movie | In Search of Dr. Seuss | (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1994-11-06 |
| Movie | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition | (voice - archive footage) | 1994-11-19 |
| Movie | Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Doctor Gustav Niemann (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
| Movie | Transylvania Twist | Man in Room (archive footage) | 1989-10-01 |
| Movie | Horrible Horror | Gruesome in 'Dick Tracey Meets Gruesome' | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | The Monster (Archive Footage) | 1984-10-26 |
| Movie | The Horror of It All | Frankenstein / Cabman John Gray (archive footage) | 1983-02-23 |
| Movie | The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979-02-06 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Movie | Madhouse | (archive footage) | 1974-05-22 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
| Movie | Isle of the Snake People | Carl van Molder / Damballah | 1971-03-01 |
| Movie | Alien Terror | Prof. John Mayer | 1971-04-01 |
| Movie | Cauldron of Blood | Franz Badulescu | 1970-02-16 |
| Movie | Hatchet for the Honeymoon | Gorca (archive footage) | 1970-06-02 |
| Movie | Curse of the Crimson Altar | Professor John Marsh | 1968-12-01 |
| Movie | Macabre Serenade | Matthias Morteval | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Fear Chamber | Dr. Carl Mandel | 1968-05-01 |
| Movie | Targets | Byron Orlok | 1968-08-15 |
| Movie | The Venetian Affair | Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud | 1967-01-18 |
| Movie | The Sorcerers | Prof. Marcus Monserrat | 1967-06-25 |
| Movie | Mad Monster Party? | Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice) | 1967-03-08 |
| Movie | The Daydreamer | The Rat (voice) | 1966-06-01 |
| Movie | The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | The Corpse | 1966-04-06 |
| Series | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1966-09-13 |
| Movie | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | Narrator / The Grinch (voice) | 1966-12-18 |
| Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
| Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | Die, Monster, Die! | Nahum Witley | 1965-10-26 |
| Movie | A Fool's World | Narrator | 1964-01-01 |
| Movie | Bikini Beach | Art Dealer | 1964-07-22 |
| Movie | The Comedy of Terrors | Amos Hinchley | 1964-01-22 |
| Movie | The Raven | Dr. Scarabus | 1963-01-25 |
| Movie | Black Sabbath | Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak") | 1963-08-17 |
| Movie | The Terror | Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe | 1963-06-17 |
| Movie | Little Lost Robot | Host | 1962-07-07 |
| Movie | Days of Thrills and Laughter | Self (archive footage) | 1961-03-21 |
| Series | Thriller | Host | 1960-09-13 |
| Movie | Jack the Ripper | Host / Capt. John Elwood / Jonas Atterbury / Dr. Francis Mason | 1958-03-08 |
| Series | Shirley Temple's Storybook | Unknown | 1958-01-12 |
| Movie | Destination Nightmare | Host / Ira Perry / Pete Wade Sr. / Professor Charles Goncourt / Morgan Debs | 1958-03-08 |
| Movie | Grip of the Strangler | James Rankin | 1958-05-11 |
| Movie | Corridors of Blood | Dr. Thomas Bolton | 1958-12-01 |
| Movie | Frankenstein 1970 | Baron Viktor von Frankenstein | 1958-07-20 |
| Movie | Voodoo Island | Phillip Knight | 1957-02-01 |
| Movie | The Juggler of Our Lady | Narrator (voice) | 1957-12-04 |
| Series | Colonel March of Scotland Yard | 1956-02-22 | |
| Series | Telephone Time | Unknown | 1956-04-08 |
| Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1955-07-29 |
| Movie | A Connecticut Yankee | King Arthur | 1955-03-12 |
| Movie | The Island Monster | Don Gaetano | 1954-01-02 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Colonel March Investigates | Colonel March | 1953-07-01 |
| Movie | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | 1953-08-01 |
| Movie | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | King Arthur | 1952-05-19 |
| Movie | The Black Castle | Dr. Meissen | 1952-11-20 |
| Series | The Ernie Kovacs Show | 1952-12-30 | |
| Series | Down You Go | 1951-05-30 | |
| Movie | The Strange Door | Voltan | 1951-06-21 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Movie | The Emperor's Nightingale | Narrator (English version) | 1949-04-15 |
| Movie | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Swami Talpur | 1949-05-26 |
| Movie | Tap Roots | Tishomingo | 1948-08-25 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Dr. Hugo Hollingshead | 1947-09-01 |
| Movie | Lured | Charles van Druten | 1947-08-28 |
| Movie | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | Gruesome | 1947-09-26 |
| Movie | Unconquered | Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas | 1947-10-10 |
| Movie | Bedlam | George Sims | 1946-05-10 |
| Movie | The Body Snatcher | John Gray | 1945-05-25 |
| Movie | Isle of the Dead | Gen. Nikolas Pherides | 1945-09-01 |
| Movie | The Climax | Dr. Friedrich Hohner | 1944-10-20 |
| Movie | House of Frankenstein | Dr. Gustav Niemann | 1944-12-01 |
| Movie | The Mummy's Curse | Kharis in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited) | 1944-12-22 |
| Movie | The Boogie Man Will Get You | Prof. Nathaniel Billings | 1942-10-22 |
| Movie | The Devil Commands | Dr. Julian Blair | 1941-08-15 |
| Movie | The Man with Nine Lives | Dr. Leon Kravaal | 1940-04-18 |
| Movie | The Fatal Hour | James Lee Wong | 1940-01-15 |
| Movie | Doomed to Die | James Lee Wong | 1940-08-12 |
| Movie | You'll Find Out | Judge Spencer Mainwaring | 1940-11-22 |
| Movie | Before I Hang | Dr. John Garth | 1940-09-17 |
| Movie | The Ape | Dr. Bernard Adrian | 1940-09-30 |
| Movie | The Mummy's Hand | Kharis (archive footage / uncredited) | 1940-09-20 |
| Movie | The Mystery of Mr. Wong | James Lee Wong | 1939-03-08 |
| Movie | Mr. Wong in Chinatown | Mr. James Lee Wong | 1939-08-01 |
| Movie | Son of Frankenstein | The Monster | 1939-01-13 |
| Movie | Devil's Island | Dr. Charles Gaudet | 1939-01-07 |
| Movie | Tower of London | Mord | 1939-11-17 |
| Movie | British Intelligence | Valdar | 1939-11-10 |
| Movie | The Man They Could Not Hang | Dr. Henryk Savaard | 1939-08-17 |
| Movie | The Invisible Menace | Jevries | 1938-01-11 |
| Movie | Mr. Wong, Detective | James Lee Wong | 1938-10-05 |
| Movie | Cinema Circus | Himself | 1937-01-27 |
| Movie | Night Key | David Mallory | 1937-04-18 |
| Movie | West of Shanghai | "General" Wu Yen Fang | 1937-10-30 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1937 | Self | 1937-12-31 |
| Movie | The Walking Dead | John Ellman | 1936-03-01 |
| Movie | The Invisible Ray | Dr. Janos Rukh | 1936-01-20 |
| Movie | The Man Who Changed His Mind | Dr. Laurience | 1936-09-11 |
| Movie | Charlie Chan at the Opera | Gravelle | 1936-12-04 |
| Movie | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself | 1935-07-05 |
| Movie | Bride of Frankenstein | The Monster | 1935-04-20 |
| Movie | The Raven | Edmond Bateman | 1935-07-08 |
| Movie | The Black Room | Baron Gregor de Berghman / Anton de Berghman | 1935-07-15 |
| Movie | The Lost Patrol | Sanders | 1934-02-16 |
| Movie | The House of Rothschild | Count Ledrantz | 1934-04-07 |
| Movie | Gift of Gab | Himself | 1934-09-01 |
| Movie | The Ghoul | Prof. Morlant | 1933-08-01 |
| Movie | The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood | Boris Karloff | 1932-03-27 |
| Movie | The Miracle Man | Nikko | 1932-04-01 |
| Movie | Scarface | Gaffney | 1932-04-09 |
| Movie | Business and Pleasure | Sheik Ali Ben Joseph (uncredited) | 1932-02-24 |
| Movie | Behind the Mask | Jim Henderson | 1932-02-25 |
| Movie | Boo | Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein") | 1932-12-01 |
| Movie | The Mummy | Imhotep, alias Ardath Bey | 1932-12-22 |
| Movie | The Old Dark House | Morgan | 1932-10-20 |
| Movie | Night World | 'Happy' MacDonald | 1932-05-04 |
| Movie | Skyscraper Souls | Man Approaching Ticket Counter | 1932-07-16 |
| Movie | Cracked Nuts | Boris - First Revolutionary | 1931-04-18 |
| Movie | The Vanishing Legion | The Voice (voice) | 1931-06-01 |
| Movie | King of the Wild | Mustapha | 1931-03-01 |
| Movie | Tonight or Never | Waiter | 1931-01-04 |
| Movie | Smart Money | Sport Williams | 1931-06-11 |
| Movie | The Criminal Code | Ned Galloway | 1931-01-03 |
| Movie | I Like Your Nerve | Luigi - Pacheco's Butler | 1931-09-12 |
| Movie | The Yellow Ticket | Drunken Orderly | 1931-10-30 |
| Movie | The Guilty Generation | Tony Ricca | 1931-11-19 |
| Movie | The Mad Genius | Fedor's Father (uncredited) | 1931-09-30 |
| Movie | Graft | Terry | 1931-09-21 |
| Movie | The Public Defender | The Professor | 1931-08-01 |
| Movie | The Sea Bat | Corsican | 1930-07-05 |
| Movie | The Bad One | Monsieur Gaston | 1930-05-03 |
| Movie | The Utah Kid | Henchman Baxter | 1930-10-27 |
| Movie | The Phantom of the North | Jules Gregg | 1929-05-27 |
| Movie | Behind That Curtain | Beetham's Manservent | 1929-06-30 |
| Movie | The King of the Kongo | Scarface Macklin | 1929-08-29 |
| Movie | The Unholy Night | Abdul Mohammed Bey - the Hindu Lawyer (uncredited) | 1929-09-13 |
| Movie | Sharp Shooters | Cafe Proprietor (uncredited) | 1928-01-15 |
| Movie | Two Arabian Knights | Purser | 1927-09-23 |
| Movie | Tarzan and the Golden Lion | Owaza | 1927-03-20 |
| Movie | The Phantom Buster | Ramon | 1927-08-13 |
| Movie | The Bells | The Mesmerist | 1926-07-29 |
| Movie | The Eagle of the Sea | Pirate (uncredited) | 1926-10-17 |
| Movie | Old Ironsides | Saracen Guard (uncredited) | 1926-12-06 |
| Movie | The Nickel-Hopper | Dance Hall Masher | 1926-12-04 |
| Movie | Dynamite Dan | Tony Garcia | 1924-10-02 |
| Movie | The Infidel | The Nabob | 1922-04-02 |
| Movie | The Cave Girl | Baptiste | 1921-12-26 |
| Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Indian (uncredited) | 1920-11-21 |
| Movie | The Deadlier Sex | Jules Borney | 1920-03-28 |
| Movie | The Lightning Raider | 1919-01-02 | |
| Movie | His Majesty, the American | Henchman in cloth cap | 1919-09-01 |