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Karloff, Boris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Boris Karloff British actor Boris Karloff (1887–1969) created a cinematic icon when he played...British Columbia, to audition. He devised the stage name Boris Karloff, claiming that Karloff was a name from his mother's family...
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Boris Karloff
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Boris Karloff , 1887-1969, Anglo-American actor, b. Dulwich, England; his original...Pratt. A distinguished character actor with a superb speaking voice, Karloff was famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror films, notably Frankenstein...
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Richardson, Ralph
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...wrong part of the performance. Made Film Debut with Karloff Within a year, however, Richardson had graduated from...film as well. It came in 1933's The Ghoul alongside Boris Karloff. "I played a parson," Richardson recalled with his...
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Actors Who Faced (or Became) Movie Monsters
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...of movie monsterdom and the actors who portrayed them—such as the Frankenstein monster, as enacted by Boris Karloff (1887–1969); the Wolf Man, as played by Lon Chaney, Jr. (1906–1973); and the vampire...
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Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...s music was included in film scores. Among these was the eerie music of "Isle of the Dead" in a 1945 film with Boris Karloff. Various parts of his other works turn up in many films. Rachmaninov's music is considered Romantic while bearing...
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Frankenstein
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
Frankenstein The clanking, bolted Boris Karloff, whose latest incarnation is the parodic Herman Munster, has become the popular image of the Frankenstein monster —...
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The Top Ten Movie Monsters
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...talons on his fingers, from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The Frankenstein monster, the original version with Boris Karloff, Frankenstein (1931). Godzilla, the prehistoric giant reptile that spews radioactive rays and stomps cities to...
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Wise, Robert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...prostitute who saves a carriage-load of aristocrats during the Franco-Prussian War, and The Body Snatcher, starring Boris Karloff, inaugurated Wise's involvement with the horror genre. Wise was behind the camera regularly in the late 1940s...
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...of the sisters' activities; and matters get more farcical when another Brewster nephew, the criminal Jonathan ( Boris Karloff) on the lam, and a strange Dr. Einstein ( Edgar Stehli) arrive with the body of their latest victim. As next of...
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Lugosi, Bela
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Broadway in the play Dracula . Lugosi reprised his role in the classic horror film Dracula (1931). He appeared with Boris Karloff in films such as The Black Cat (1934) and The Raven (1935).
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