Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

In 1957, Desmond joined Boris Karloff in a guest appearance on NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show.

Born as William Henry Pratt, he joined a touring company and adopted the stage name Boris Karloff.

With actors such as Boris Karloff, Aubrey Smith, Ronald Coleman, Leslie Howard ( who joined for social reasons, despite disliking cricket ), David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine, Elsa Lanchester and Merle Oberon attending matches at the Griffith Park ground on Sundays the British colony in Hollywood set the tone for tea on lawn.

Russell Gleason was married to Cynthia Lindsay, a former Busby Berkeley chorus girl who later wrote a biography of family friend Boris Karloff.

Put under contract by Universal Pictures Co. Inc., Chaney was cast in Man Made Monster ( 1941 ), a science-fiction horror thriller originally written with Karloff in mind.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

In 1966, he produced and directed the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas !, featuring the voice and facial models based on the readings by Boris Karloff.

The film starred Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff.

The film starred Paul Muni in the title role, with memorable supporting performances from George Raft, Boris Karloff, and Osgood Perkins.

With the progression of the genre actors were beginning to build entire careers in such films, most especially Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

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.

This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow ( Roddy McDowall ) and Kurtz ( Boris Karloff ) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son.

* 1928 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican wrestler ( d. 2007 )

Casting the familiar Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein and Mae Clarke as his fiancée Elizabeth, Whale turned to an unknown actor named Boris Karloff to play the Monster.

Boris Karloff: A Bio-bibliography.

* Gifford, Denis ( 1973 ) Karloff: The Man, The Monster, The Movies.

In the West, Meher Baba met with a number of celebrities and artists, including Hollywood notables Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff, Tom Mix, Maurice Chevalier, Ernst Lubitsch and others.

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

* 1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor ( d. 1969 )

* Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in 1941, starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone.

* February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor ( b. 1887 )

* December 18 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS, becoming an annual Christmas tradition.

* November 23 – Boris Karloff, English actor ( d. 1969 )

He worked with Corman on Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, under the pseudonym Derek Thomas.

Not knowing about their gentle nature, two 1930s movies played on the manta's " fearsome " appearance: 1930's The Sea Bat, starring a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, and 1936's The Sea Fiend, later re-issued as the 1946 Devil Monster.

One of their grandsons was the actor William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff.

The movie stars Edward G. Robinson and features H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, and Boris Karloff.

Later, as a guest on NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show, Karloff sang " Those Were the Good Old Days " from Damn Yankees, while Gisele MacKenzie performed the solo, " Give Me the Simple Life ".

" Karloff performed in drag as the titular Mother Muffin.

#" Wait For The Blackout " – written by The Damned ( Scabies / Sensible / Gray / Vanian / Billy Karloff ), performed by The Goo Goo Dolls

and performed it again on Halloween of the same year on Shindig !, along with Boris Karloff performing " Monster Mash ".

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 performed a moving rendition of the song on The Jonathan Winters Show in 1968 at the age of 80.

Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like Pierre Trudeau and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like Upton Sinclair.

Make-up artist Jack Pierce had studied photos of Seti I's mummy to design Imhotep, though perhaps notably, Karloff looked nothing like the mummy of Seti I in the film, instead bearing a resemblance to the mummy of Ramesses III.

Boris Karloff played Jonathan Brewster, who " looks like Karloff ", on the Broadway stage, but he was unable to do the movie as well because he was still appearing in the play during filming, and Raymond Massey took his place.

He was nicknamed " Karlo ", later shortened to " Carl ", by friends who decided he looked like Boris Karloff.

Creepy and Eerie are like Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

She looks like Ilsa, the baron's ( Boris Karloff ) wife, who died 20 years before.

Whether or not his brothers ( all dignified members of the British foreign service ) actually considered young William the " black sheep of the family " for having become an actor, Karloff himself apparently worried they did feel that way.

During the 1950s, Karloff appeared on British TV in the series Colonel March of Scotland Yard, in which he portrayed John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March, who was known for solving apparently impossible crimes.

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.

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 ).

He was played by Boris Karloff in the 1950s British TV series, Colonel March of Scotland Yard.

Here, the character is renamed Henry Frankenstein ( a later film shows his tombstone bearing the name " Heinrich ") and is played by British actor Colin Clive opposite Boris Karloff as the Creature.

The Sorcerers is a 1967 British science fiction / horror film directed by Michael Reeves, starring Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, and Susan George.