Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Karloff's name was also attached to And the Darkness Falls (Cleveland and NY: World Publishing Co, 1946); and The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (London: Souvenir Press, 1965; simultaneous publication in Canada - Toronto: The Ryerson Press; US pbk reprint NY: Avon Books, 1965 retitled as Boris Karloff's Favourite Horror Stories; UK pbk reprints ...
The film stars Boris Karloff as John Gray, a cab driver who moonlights as a grave robber, and later murderer, to illegally supply Dr. MacFarlane (played by Henry Daniell) with cadavers for his classes, and makes mention of Burke, Hare, and Dr. Knox, in reference to the West Port murders of 1828. [1]
The actor Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt in London, lived in retirement in Bramshott in a house named Roundabout until his death in 1969. [28] Royal Navy officer Bertram Thesiger (died 1966) lived at Clerks in Bramshott.
In October 1997, both Chaneys appeared on commemorative US postage stamps as the Phantom of the Opera and the Wolf Man, with the set completed by Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster and the Mummy. [24] Chaney is also the subject of the 2000 documentary feature, Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces.
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 ...
Boris Karloff was an actor during the early- to mid-1900s who was best-known for his work in horror films. During one scene, viewers can see the title of the spellbook the witches use.
Dr. Laurience (Karloff), a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origins of the mind and soul in an isolated manor house, aided only by the promising surgeon Clare Wyatt (Lee) and a wheelchair-using confederate named Clayton (Donald Calthrop). The scientific community rejects his theories and Laurience risks losing everything for ...
Karloff starred in a few highly acclaimed Val Lewton-produced horror films in the 1940s, and by the mid-1950s, he was a familiar presence on both television and radio, hosting his own TV series including Starring Boris Karloff, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Thriller, Out of This World (British TV series) and The Veil, and guest starring on ...