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Lewton promoted Wise to his superiors at RKO, beginning a collaboration which would produce the notable horror film The Body Snatcher starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, a film which in its stylization and atmosphere deliberately evoked the groundbreaking horror films of the 1930s, while presenting a psychological horror film more in tune with the uncertainty of the 1940s.
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.
For the three animated adaptations, three actors were used: Boris Karloff in the original 1966 short, Hans Conried in Halloween is Grinch Night, and Bob Holt in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat ( all three of them would die shortly after the production of their respective specials and would be unable to reprise the role ).
Price wore a similar costume ( red cape, black hat ) in his commercials, and after appearing in Beach Party doing a similar gag ( and a few other AIP films over the last year ), the audience would assume they would be seeing Price again, thus creating a punchline when fellow spookster Karloff is revealed.
He paid Leo Gordon $ 1, 600 to write a script, and made a deal with Boris Karloff to be available for three days filming for a small amount of money plus a deferred payment of $ 15, 000 that would be paid if the film earned more than $ 150, 000.

Karloff and Frankenstein
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monsterin Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )
Frankenstein was the first in a series which lasted for many years, although Karloff only featured as the monster in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ), again directed by Whale, and Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ).
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.
Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).
Noting that Whale's reputation has been subsumed by the " Karloff cult ", Sarris cites Bride of Frankenstein as the " true gem " of the Frankenstein series and concludes that Whale's career " reflects the stylistic ambitions and dramatic disappointments of an expressionist in the studio-controlled Hollywood of the thirties ".
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 ).
His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as " Karloff " or " Karloff the Uncanny ".
Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )
His role as the Frankenstein monster in Frankenstein ( 1931 ) made Karloff a star.
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.
Karloff returned to the role of the " mad scientist " in 1958's Frankenstein 1970, as Baron Victor von Frankenstein II, the grandson of the original inventor.
Karloff left Universal because he thought the Frankenstein franchise had run its course.

Karloff and several
In the 1960s, Karloff appeared in several films for American International Pictures, including The Comedy of Terrors, The Raven, and The Terror, the latter two directed by Roger Corman, and Die, Monster, Die!
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.
Boris Karloff played the leading role in several major Hollywood horror films in the 1930s.
She starred in several films from the 1940s through the 1980s but most people remember her from the classic 1971 film Isle of the Snake People starring Boris Karloff in one of his last roles.
Stephenson borrowed the vocal traits of Joe Flynn for several characters as mentioned earlier, Boris Karloff for several more, and did a pretty good Jimmy Durante for the 1970s and 1980s version of Doggie Daddy.
After Frankenstein and starring in several high profile films such as Bride of Frankenstein and Scarface, Karloff spent the remainder of the 1930s continuing to work at an incredible pace, but progressively more into less financially successful films.

Karloff and later
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.
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.
In 1909, Pratt travelled to Canada and began appearing in stage shows throughout the country ; and some time later changed his professional name to " Boris Karloff ".
A year later, Karloff played another iconic character, Imhotep in The Mummy.
In later years, Karloff hosted and acted in a number of television series, most notably Thriller, Out Of This World, and The Veil, but the last of these was never actually transmitted, and it only came to light in the 1990s.
Karloff later received a Grammy Award in the spoken word category after the story was released as a record.
Boris Karloff ( who later found fame as a Horror film star ) had an uncredited role as a marauding Indian.
Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.
Pupils have continued to go on to later fame-Patrick Abercrombie, pioneer Town Planner ; Sir Malcolm Campbell, motor racer ; James Elroy Flecker, poet and playwright: CRW Nevinson, official war artist in both wars ; WH Pratt ( Boris Karloff ), film actor ; E. J.
However, producer Allan Sherman later admitted that these celebrity ' secrets ' ( such as Boris Karloff being afraid of mice ) were frequently concocted by the show's staff, and the celebrities merely played along.
American International Pictures movies starred many established actors in principal or cameo roles, such as Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester and Vincent Price, as well as others who later became household names, including Don Johnson, Nick Nolte, Diane Ladd, and most notably Jack Nicholson.
He was nicknamed " Karlo ", later shortened to " Carl ", by friends who decided he looked like Boris Karloff.
Russell Gleason was married to Cynthia Lindsay, a former Busby Berkeley chorus girl who later wrote a biography of family friend Boris Karloff.
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.
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.
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 ).

Karloff and films
With the progression of the genre actors were beginning to build entire careers in such films, most especially Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
* 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.
However, the novel was not published until 1920, at least eight years after Karloff had been using the name on stage and in silent films ( Warner Oland played " Boris Karlov " in a movie version in 1931 ).
Once Karloff arrived in Hollywood, he made dozens of silent films, but work was sporadic, and he often had to take up manual labour such as digging ditches or delivering construction plaster to earn a living.
From 1945 to 1946, Karloff appeared in three films for RKO produced by Val Lewton: Isle Of The Dead, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam.
Karloff ended his career by appearing in four low-budget Mexican horror films: The Snake People, The Incredible Invasion, The Fear Chamber, and House of Evil.
Four Mexican films for which Karloff shot his scenes in Los Angeles were released over a two-year period after he had died.
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 ".
For example, Karloff was featured because he served as a rescue worker following a devastating 1912 tornado in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was appearing in a play many years before horror films made him famous.
The set decorators rented a collection of 1930s electrical props originally used in the original Boris Karloff Frankenstein films.
Karloff played the monster in two more Universal films, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein.
Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the part from Karloff in The Ghost of Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi portrayed the role in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Glenn Strange played the monster in the last three Universal Studios films to feature the character ( House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ); but their makeup replicated the iconic look first worn by Karloff.
Starting with Mr. Wong, Detective, Boris Karloff played Wong in 5 of 6 films produced from 1938 to 1941.
* Boris Karloff, actor in many horror films
Pierce shaved the hairline of Boris Karloff and turned it into an arrow-like widow's peak for the 1934 film The Black Cat, and had comedian Bud Abbott augment his thinning hairline with a widow's peak toupee in his early films with Lou Costello.
Between 1945 and 1946, Boris Karloff appeared in three films for RKO produced by Lewton: Isle of the Dead, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam.
The idea of a " mummy's curse " inspired films such as The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, which popularized the idea of ancient Egyptian mummies reanimating as monsters.

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