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* December 18 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS, becoming an annual Christmas tradition.
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 ).
Although he is best known for playing many sinister characters on screen, Karloff was known in real life as a very kind gentleman who gave generously, especially to children's charities.
Film critic Roger Ebert, who had given negative reviews to all three of Curtis's 1980 films, said that Curtis " is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one-or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s ".
Benny: You ought to do well in pictures, Mr. Allen, now that Boris Karloff is back in England.
The Mummy is a 1932 horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest.
An Ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep ( Boris Karloff ) is revived when an archaeological expedition finds Imhotep's mummy and one of the archaeologists, despite a warning, recklessly reads aloud an ancient life-giving spell.
The Mummy's Hand recycled footage from the original film for use in the telling of Kharis ' origins ; Karloff is clearly visible in several of these recycled scenes, but he is not credited.
In the late 1950s British Hammer Film Productions took up the Mummy theme, beginning with The Mummy ( 1959 ), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ) and The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ).
When the police respond and start to close in on him he flees and resumes his shootings at a Reseda drive-in theater where an aging horror film icon, Byron Orlok ( Boris Karloff ) is making a final promotional appearance before retirement.
The character of actor Byron Orlok, named after Max Schreck's vampire Count Orlok in 1922's Nosferatu, is patterned after Boris Karloff himself, who in fact plays the part in his last appearance in a major American film ( although Bogdanovich states that, unlike Orlok, Karloff was not embittered with the movie business and did not wish to retire ).
To this day, the image of Karloff's face is owned by his daughter's company, Karloff Enterprises, which is the reason Universal replaced Karloff's features with Glenn Strange's in most of their marketing.
In the other hand, the 2004 film Van Helsing, the monster is shown in a rather somewhat modernized version of the Karloff design.
The story is loosely based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Frankenstein classic black-and-white movie featuring Boris Karloff.
Featuring one of the last performances of Boris Karloff, no reference is made to the October holiday.
* A famous short story by Robert Louis Stevenson is The Body Snatcher, with a film adaptation starring Boris Karloff.
Lurch is a tall, shambling, gloomy butler who somewhat resembles Frankenstein's monster ( as played by Boris Karloff ).
The Mask of Fu Manchu is a Pre-Code adventure film released in 1932, featuring Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu and Myrna Loy as his daughter.
His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and " just a pinch " of cyanide ; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home ( which then serve as graves for the aunts ' victims ); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein ( a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran ) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff ( a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff ).
Boris Karloff is named in the closing credits.

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Karloff appeared in three of producer Val Lewton's atmospheric B-pictures for RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s, including The Body Snatcher ( 1945 ), which also featured Lugosi.
After earning fame in Frankenstein, Karloff appeared as the Frankenstein monster in two other films, The Bride Of Frankenstein in 1935 and The Son Of Frankenstein in 1939, with the latter also featuring Lugosi.
During this period, Karloff was also a frequent guest on radio programmes, whether it was starring in Arch Oboler's Chicago-based Lights Out productions ( most notably the episode " Cat Wife ") or spoofing his horror image with Fred Allen or Jack Benny.
" In 1966, Karloff also appeared with Robert Vaughn and Stefanie Powers in the spy series The Girl from U. N. C. L. E., in the episode " The Mother Muffin Affair.
In the mid-1960s, Karloff gained a late-career surge of American popularity when he narrated the made-for-television animated film of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and also provided the voice of the Grinch, although the song, " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch " was sung by American voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.
Cauldron of Blood, shot in Spain in 1967 and starring Karloff and Viveca Lindfors, was also released after Karloff's death.
The name William Pratt may allude to horror actor Boris Karloff, whose birth name was William Henry Pratt, and can also be understood as the British slang term " prat ", describing a person of arrogant stupidity.
She also played a sadistic Chinese princess in The Mask of Fu Manchu, opposite Boris Karloff.
He was also related to the actor Boris Karloff, whose birth name was William Henry Pratt.
During this time he also co-starred with Boris Karloff in Die, Monster, Die!
Chaney would go on to play a wolf man ( if not the Wolf Man ) in very similar makeup in the 1959 Mexican film La Casa del Terror and a famous 1962 episode of TV's Route 66 titled Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing, which also starred Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster.
Keith Karloff also helped McConnell to compose some original tracks for the game.
The series was hosted by Boris Karloff, who also acted in every episode but one, and was allegedly based upon real-life reports of supernatural happenings and the unexplained.
Leo Dorfman, creator of Ghosts for DC Comics, also produced supernatural stories for Gold Key's similarly themed Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Grimm's Ghost Stories.
The sonata also appears in an orchestrated version in some 1930s movies, including the The Black Cat, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, as well as the Flash Gordon serials.
He was also known as the " Boris Karloff of Spain " and he had one of the most recognizable faces in Spanish horror film.
Gold Key Comics published a comic book version of Thriller, changing the title to Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery after the series ended ; the series lasted until the 1980s, long after not only the end of Thriller but also the death of Karloff himself.
Clips from the film were used a few years later in the 1968 Peter Bogdanovich movie Targets, which also featured Karloff as the actor from The Terror.
He also loves cheese, and he always asks for the definition of a word he has never heard before and speaks in a voice similar to Boris Karloff.
Clarke also appeared in the modest pre-code Universal film Night World ( 1932 ), with Lew Ayres, Boris Karloff and Hedda Hopper.
The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) is an American comedy horror film directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, produced just one year after their success with Frankenstein, also released by Universal Studios.
A photograph of the Hollywood Cricket Club taken at UCLA in 1932 includes H. B Warner ( who Aubrey Smith used to play cricket with for the Actors ' XI in England ), Boris Karloff and Harrow-educated Frank Somerset, who later became Secretary of the Screen Actors ' Guild ( also founded in May 1933 ).

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