Over one hundred years later, in 1931, a hard-working but relatively unknown actor named Boris Karloff was cast to play Frankenstein’s monster in James Whale’s now classic movie adaptation.

Boris Karloff first played the Universal Frankensteins monster when he was 44 years old. He had already been in several stage ...

Pratt, better known to the world as Boris Karloff—and best known as the Frankenstein monster—died Sunday in London in King Edward VII Hospital of a respiratory ailment. He was 81. Though he ...

the one starring Boris Karloff as the monster, was not the first, but it set the standard. Over the years, though, there have been many unconventional riffs on “Frankenstein.” Here are some of ...

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein Credit ... Lugosi was then cast as the monster in Frankenstein, also set to be released in 1931, and once again had his own ideas. He wanted to make the monster ...

Despite its name, House of Frankenstein involves no Frankensteins save the monster, now portrayed by Glenn Strange. Instead, Boris Karloff plays mad scientist Gustav Niemann, whose plan to make a ...

The Karl Freund-directed film starring Boris Karloff as the title monster is one of the best-reviewed horror stories of its era. Now NECA is unearthing a new haunting action figure based on the ...

The unnamed creature comes to life only for Frankenstein promptly to reject it, triggering a cycle of revenge murders that ultimately take the duo to the North Pole. Boris Karloff in Bride of ...

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