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Jack Pierce (born Yiannis Pikoulas; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968) was a Hollywood make-up artist best remembered for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931), along with various other classic monster make-ups for Universal Studios.
Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein in the novel), an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his assistant in order to assemble a living being from body parts. The resulting creature, often known as Frankenstein's monster, is portrayed by Boris Karloff. The makeup for the monster was provided by Jack ...
Starring Boris Karloff: 13-episode weekly anthology show hosted by Karloff: Sept. 21–Dec. 14, 1949 [61] (See subsection on Karloff's "Starring Boris Karloff" radio episodes below.) The Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel: appeared as a guest: Jan. 13, 1950 [70] Invitation to Music: appeared as a guest: June 18, 1950 [70] The Barbara Welles ...
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A new documentary about “Frankenstein” actor Boris Karloff is in the works. Voltage Films is currently in production on the feature documentary “Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster.”
Strange as Frankenstein in House of Dracula (1945) Strange (left) and Boris Karloff in the 1944 horror film, House of Frankenstein. In 1944, while Strange was being made up for an action film at Universal, make-up artist Jack Pierce noticed that Strange's facial features and 6'4" [6] height would be appropriate for the role of Frankenstein's
The "Moosylvania" episode of Rocky and His Friends showed Boris and Natasha attempting to pass off some small Western town as Washington, D.C.—and the Capitol Building is topped off with a statue of Frankenstein's Monster. Boris Karloff reprised his role wearing the Frankenstein Monster makeup in a 1962 episode of Route 66 titled "Lizard's ...