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Boris Karloff

Born 1887-11-23

Died 1969-02-02

📍 Camberwell, London, England, UK

William Henry Pratt (November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969), better known as Boris Karloff, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. 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". His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch in the television special of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

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Filmography 269

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

as Self - (archive footage)

The Last Repair Shop

as The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

as Self (archive footage)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

as Self (archive footage)

Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters

as Self (archive footage)

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as Various roles (archive footage)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

as Self (archive footage)

The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features

He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce

as Self (archive footage)

Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

as Himself (archive footage)

Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

as Cabman John Gray (archive footage)

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

Lugosi: The Dark Prince

as Self (archive footage)

Karloff: The Gentle Monster

as Self (archive footage)

Terror in the Tropics

as Mr. Wong (archive footage)

Monster Movie Trivia Quiz

as (archive footage)

The American Nightmare

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

as Self (archive footage)

The Many Faces of Dracula

as The Monster (archive footage)

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

as Self (archive footage)

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

as Self (archive footage)

Universal Horror

as (archive footage)

The Universal Story

as Self (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

as Self (archive footage)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition

as (voice - archive footage)

Dracula in the Movies

Halloween Monster Bash

as Baron Von Leppe (archive footage)

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Doctor Gustav Niemann (archive footage)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

as (archive footage)

Abbott and Costello in the Movies

Transylvania Twist

as Man in Room (archive footage)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Creepy Classics

as Dr. Scarabus - (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

The Horror of It All

as Frankenstein / Cabman John Gray (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

Monsters on the March (and a Pair of Marvels!)

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

as (archive footage)

as Prof. John Mayer

Isle of the Snake People

as Carl van Molder / Damballah

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

as Gorca (archive footage)

as Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) (uncredited)

Curse of the Crimson Altar

as Professor John Marsh

The Name of the Game

as Mikhail Orlov

as Dr. Carl Mandel

Macabre Serenade

as Matthias Morteval

Cauldron of Blood

as Franz Badulescu

as Self (archive footage)

as Prof. Marcus Monserrat

Mad Monster Party?

as Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

as Narrator / The Grinch (voice)

The Venetian Affair

as Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mother Muffin

as The Rat (voice)

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Doom of Dracula

as The Madman (archive footage)

Die, Monster, Die!

as Nahum Witley

The Wild Wild West

as Self - Guest Host / Singer

The Comedy of Terrors

as Amos Hinchley

as Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak")

as Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe

Corridors of Blood

as Dr. Thomas Bolton

as Dr. Scarabus

Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing

Little Lost Robot

Out of This World

The Incredible Doktor Markesan

as Dr. Konrad Markesan

Arsenic & Old Lace

as Jonathan Brewster

The Grim Reaper

Days of Thrills and Laughter

as Self (archive footage)

Who Killed Chung Ling Soo?

The Fatal Impulse

as Clayton Mace

as Pop Jenkins / Col. Jackson Beauregard Finchess

as Doktor Konrad Markesan

as Dr. Albert Farnham

Heart of Darkness

Frankenstein 1970

as Baron Viktor von Frankenstein

Grip of the Strangler

as James Rankin

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Narrator (voice) / Father Knickerbocker

The Juggler of Our Lady

as Narrator (voice)

as Judge Winthrop Gelsey

DuPont Show of the Month

as Bishop Cauchon

as Phillip Knight

Rendezvous in Black

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

as Colonel March Of Scotland Yard

This Is Your Life

A Connecticut Yankee

as General Pollegar

as Dr. Philip Nestri

as Vicar Tellworth

The Island Monster

The United States Steel Hour

as George Redford

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Colonel March Investigates

as Colonel March

General Electric Theater

as Mr. Blue Ocean

General Electric Theater

as Henry E. Church

The Black Castle

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Jonathan Brewster

The Strange Door

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Charles Brandon

The Red Skelton Show

as Professor Townsend (Spy)

Tales of Tomorrow

What's My Line?

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Bennett Kimball

Robert Montgomery Presents

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

as Swami Talpur

The Emperor's Nightingale

as Narrator (English version)

as Professor Koernig

as Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as Dr Hugo Hollingshead

as Charles van Druten

Isle of the Dead

as Gen. Nikolas Pherides

The Body Snatcher

The Mummy's Curse

as Kharis in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)

House of Frankenstein

as Dr. Gustav Niemann

as Dr. Friedrich Hohner

The Boogie Man Will Get You

as Prof. Nathaniel Billings

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

The Devil Commands

as Dr. Julian Blair

You'll Find Out

as Judge Spencer Mainwaring

as Dr. Bernard Adrian

The Mummy's Hand

as Kharis (archive footage / uncredited)

as Dr. John Garth

as James Lee Wong

The Man with Nine Lives

as Dr. Leon Kravaal

as Dr. Ernest Sovac

as James Lee Wong

Tower of London

British Intelligence

The Man They Could Not Hang

as Dr. Henryk Savaard

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

as Mr. James Lee Wong

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

as James Lee Wong

Son of Frankenstein

as Dr. Charles Gaudet

Mr. Wong, Detective

as James Lee Wong

The Invisible Menace

Breakdowns of 1937

West of Shanghai

as "General" Wu Yen Fang

as David Mallory

Charlie Chan at the Opera

The Man Who Changed His Mind

as Dr. Laurence

as Dr. Victor Sartorius

The Walking Dead

The Invisible Ray

as Dr. Janos Rukh

as Baron Gregor de Berghman / Anton de Berghman

as Edmond Bateman

Bride of Frankenstein

as Hjalmar Poelzig

The House of Rothschild

as Count Ledrantz

The Lost Patrol

Screen Snapshots No. 11

as Prof. Morlant

as Imhotep / Ardath Bey

as Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein")

The Mask of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Manchu

The Old Dark House

Skyscraper Souls

as Man Approaching Ticket Counter

as 'Happy' MacDonald

The Miracle Man

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

as Boris Karloff

Behind the Mask

as Jim Henderson

Business and Pleasure

as Sheik Ali-Ben Joseph

The Guilty Generation

The Yellow Ticket

as Drunken Orderly

as Fedor's Father (uncredited)

Five Star Final

as T. Vernon Isopod

I Like Your Nerve

as Luigi - Pacheco's Butler

The Public Defender

as The Professor

as Sport Williams

Young Donovan's Kid

The Vanishing Legion

as The Voice (voice)

as Boris - First Revolutionary

King of the Wild

Tonight or Never

The Criminal Code

as Ned Galloway

as Henchman Baxter

as Monsieur Gaston

The Unholy Night

as Abdul Mohammed Bey - the Hindu Lawyer (uncredited)

The King of the Kongo

as Scarface Macklin

Behind That Curtain

as Beetham's Manservent

The Devil's Chaplain

The Fatal Warning

Burning the Wind

The Little Wild Girl

as Maurice Kent

Vultures of the Sea

The Vanishing Rider

as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)

Two Arabian Knights

as The Chief Conspirator

The Phantom Buster

The Meddlin' Stranger

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

The Princess from Hoboken

as Saracen Guard (uncredited)

The Nickel-Hopper

as Dance Hall Masher

The Eagle of the Sea

as Pirate (uncredited)

as Blackie Blanchette

as Dave Sinclair

as The Mesmerist

Her Honor, the Governor

as Snipe Collins

The Man in the Saddle

as Robber (uncredited)

The Greater Glory

as Scissors Grinder

as Madame Gordon's 2nd Henchman (uncredited)

Parisian Nights

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Perils of the Wild

The Prairie Wife

Forbidden Cargo

as Pietro Castillano

Riders of the Plains

The White Panther

as Shere Ali's Aide (as Karloff Boris)

as Prince Kapolski

Omar the Tentmaker

as Imam Mowaffak

The Altar Stairs

The Woman Conquers

The Man from Downing Street

as Maharajah Jehan

Nan of the North

as Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Without Benefit of Clergy

The Hope Diamond Mystery

as Priest of Kama-Sita / Dakar

The Last of the Mohicans

as Indian (uncredited)

The Courage of Marge O'Doone

The Woman and the Puppet

as (uncredited)

The Deadlier Sex

as Jules Borney

The Prince and Betty

as Undetermined Role

His Majesty, the American

as Henchman in cloth cap

The Lightning Raider