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Boris Karloff (I) (1887–1969)
Actor, Soundtrack
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£250K
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Bikini Beach (1964)
The Art Dealer, The Producers Wish To Extend Special Thanks To (as The Art Dealer) |
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| Past Television (49 titles) | Episodes |
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The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1968)
(TV Series) - Dr. Nelson Sr. / Professor Townsend (Spy) (2 episodes, 1956), Performer: "The Two Of Us", "The Three Of Us" (1 episode, 1968)
He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash (Sep
24,
1968)
Season 18,
Episode 1
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Dr. Nelson Sr.,
Performer: "The Two Of Us", "The Three Of Us"
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1
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1
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3
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General Electric Theater (1955–1959)
(TV Series) - Henry E. Church / Mr. Blue Ocean (2 episodes, 1955) |
2
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10
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3
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1
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1
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1
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The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1957)
(TV Series) - Performer: "Those Were The Good Old Days", "The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish" (uncredited) (1 episode, 1957)
Boris Karloff (Nov
16,
1957)
Season 1,
Episode 8
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Performer: "Those Were The Good Old Days", "The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish" (uncredited)
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1
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The Lux Show (1957)
(TV Series) - Performer: "You Do Something To Me", "I Get So Frightened" (1 episode, 1957)
Episode #1.5 (Oct
31,
1957)
Season 1,
Episode 5
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Performer: "You Do Something To Me", "I Get So Frightened"
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1
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Lux Video Theatre (1951–1957)
(TV Series) - Montgomery Royle / Larkin / Sir Arthur Strangeways (3 episodes, 1951) |
3
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The Rosemary Clooney Show (1957)
(TV Series) - Performer: "You'd Be Surprised", "Children Have Quizzical Ways" (1 episode, 1957)
Boris Karloff (Mar
7,
1957)
Season 1,
Episode 29
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Performer: "You'd Be Surprised", "Children Have Quizzical Ways"
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1
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2
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Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
(TV Series) - Colonel March Of Scotland Yard / Colonel March of Scotland Yard / Col. Perceval March (26 episodes, 1954) |
26
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1
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1
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A Connecticut Yankee (1955)
(TV Movie) - King Arthur, Performer: "A Toast", "At The Round Table", "You Always Love The Same Girl" |
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1
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The Plymouth Playhouse (1953)
(TV Series) - starring in 'The Chase' and 'The Reticence of Cody Anne' / Story One - The Chase (3 episodes, 1953) |
3
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6
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| Self (58 titles) |
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The Jonathan Winters Show (1968)
(TV Series) - Self (1 episode, 1968)
Boris Karloff, Agnes Moorehead, Marjorie McCoy, the Craig Hundley Trio (Oct
30,
1968)
Season 2,
Episode 6
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Self
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957)
(TV Series) - Self (2 episodes, 1957)
Art Carney, Betty Hutton, Boris Karloff, Gloria DeWerd, Nancy Kilgas, The Skylarks (May
17,
1957)
Season 1,
Episode 9
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Self
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All Star Revue (1953)
(TV Series) - Self (1 episode, 1953)
Host: Martha Raye; Guests: Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Charyl Sue Fong (Jan
17,
1953)
Season 3,
Episode 20
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Self
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| Archive Footage (168 titles) |
|---|
Frankenstream - Ce monstre qui nous dévore (2022)
(TV Mini-series) - Self (archive footage) (3 episodes, 2022) |
We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) (2022)
(TV Mini-series) - Self (archive footage) (1 episode, 2022) |
Cineficción Radio (2020–2021)
(Podcast Series) - Dr. Fu Manchu (archive footage) (voice) (1 episode, 2021), The Monster (archive footage) (voice) (1 episode, 2021), Actor (archive footage) (voice) (3 episodes, 2020) |
Hollywood Insider (2021)
(TV Series) - Self (archive footage) (1 episode, 2021)
Worst Oscar Snubs: The Academy Awards Failed By Ignoring These Great Movies and Performances (Apr
22,
2021)
Season 12,
Episode 58
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Self (archive footage)
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A Good Game--Karloff & Lugosi at Universal -- Part One -- The Black Cat (2019)
(Video) - Self - Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) |
A Good Game--Karloff & Lugosi at Universal--Part Four--Black Friday (2019)
(Video) - Self - Dr. Ernest Sovac (archive footage) |
A Good Game--Karloff & Lugosi at Universal--Part Three--The Invisible Ray (2019)
(Video) - Self - Dr. Janos Rukh (archive footage) |
A Good Game--Karloff & Lugosi at Universal--Part Two--The Raven (2019)
(Video) - Self - Edmond Bateman (archive footage) |
Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe (2019)
(Video) - Self (archive footage) |
Shadowlands (2018)
(TV Mini-series) - Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe (archive footage) (1 episode, 2018)
Pygmalion Revisited (Mar
19,
2018)
Season 1,
Episode 2
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Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe (archive footage)
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The Best of Hollywood (2017)
(TV Series) - Self - Interviewee (archive footage) (1 episode, 2017), Self - Inerviewee (archive footage) (1 episode, 2017) |
Daughter of Frankenstein: A Conversation with Sara Karloff (2017)
(Video) - Self - Morgan (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2014–2015)
(TV Series) - Self - Cabman John Gray (archive footage) (1 episode, 2015), Self - Byron Orlok (archive footage) (1 episode, 2014) |
Dante's Domicile (2015)
(TV Series) - Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe / Eric (archive footage) (1 episode, 2015)
The Terror (Jul
3,
2015)
Season 3,
Episode 6
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Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe / Eric (archive footage)
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Spetsyfichni typy komunikatsiyi u mizhnarodnykh informatsiynykh ta kulturnih vidnosynakh: Ukrayinskiy vymir universalnogo kodu kultovogo kino (2015)
(Short) - Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe / Eric (archive footage) (uncredited) |
America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014)
(Video) - Mad Scientist (archive footage) |
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2014)
(TV Series) - Self - The Monster (archive footage) (8 episodes, 2010), Self - John Ellman (archive footage) (1 episode, 2014), Self - Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) (1 episode, 2014), Self - Dr. Janos Rukh (archive footage) (1 episode, 2014), Self - Kharis in flashback, bandaging sequence (archive footage) (1 episode, 2013), … See more |
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
(Video) - Self - The Monster / Self - Sanders / Self - Morgan / Self - Hjalmar Poelzig / Self - Imhotep / … (archive footage) See more |
Prophets of Science Fiction (2011)
(TV Series) - The Monster in 'Frankenstein' (archive footage) (1 episode, 2011) |
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Self - The Monster (clip from Frankenstein (1931)) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
Self - Dr. Scarabus (archive footage) (uncredited) |
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010)
(TV Mini-series) - The Monster / Morgan / Cabman John Gray (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 2010)
Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (Oct
11,
2010)
Season 1,
Episode 1
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The Monster / Morgan / Cabman John Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Bones (2009)
(TV Series) - Imhotep (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 2009)
A Night at the Bones Museum (Oct
15,
2009)
Season 5,
Episode 5
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Imhotep (archive footage) (uncredited)
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One for the Fire: The Legacy of 'Night of the Living Dead' (2008)
Self - John Ellman (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Close Up (2007)
(TV Series) - Self / Self - The Monster / Self - Various (archive footage) (1 episode, 2007)
Bela Lugosi: Dracula's Dubbelganger (Dec
16,
2007)
Self / Self - The Monster / Self - Various (archive footage)
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Ian Rankin: Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2007)
(TV Movie) - Self - Cabman John Gray (archive footage) |
Dr. Seuss and the Grinch: From Whoville to Hollywood (2006)
(Video) - Self - Narrator / Self - The Grinch (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Van Helsing: The Man and the Monsters (2004)
(TV Movie) - Self - Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage) |
Richard Matheson Storyteller: The Raven (2003)
(Video) - Dr. Scarabus (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Biography (1995–2003)
(TV Series) - The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 2003), Self (archive footage) (3 episodes, 1995)
The Munsters: America's First Family of Fright (Jul
8,
2003)
The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)
(TV Series) - Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 2003) |
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (2002)
(Video) - Self - The Monster / Self - Mad Scientist (archive footage) (uncredited) |
The Universe According to Universal (2002)
(Video) - Self - Dr. Janos Rukh (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Heroes of Horror (2001)
(TV Movie) - Self / Self - Frankenstein's Monster / Self - Narrator & The Grinch / Self - Prof. Morlant / Self - Byron Orlok / Self - Gorca (archive footage) |
Songs in the Key of Grinch (2000)
(Video) - Self - The Grinch / Self - Narrator (archive footage) (voice) |
100 Years of Horror (1996)
(TV Series) - Self (archive footage) (5 episodes, 1996), Self - The Monster (archive footage) (2 episodes, 1996), Self - Baron Victor Frederick von Leppe (archive footage) (1 episode, 1996), Self - Dr. Julian Blair (archive footage) (1 episode, 1996), Self - Professor John Marsh (archive footage) (1 episode, 1996), … See more |
Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror (1996)
(TV Series) - Self - The Monster (archive footage) (1 episode, 1996) |
The Interactive History of Frankenstein (1995)
(Video Game) - Self / Self - Frankenstein Monster (archive footage) |
Century of Cinema (1995)
(TV Series) - Self - Tom Gaffney, 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 1995)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (May
21,
1995)
Season 1,
Episode 6
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Self - Tom Gaffney, 'Scarface' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The Face of Tutankhamun (1992)
(TV Mini-series) - Self - Ardath Bey / Self - Imhotep (archive footage) (1 episode, 1992)
The Pharaoh Awakes (Dec
11,
1992)
Season 1,
Episode 4
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Self - Ardath Bey / Self - Imhotep (archive footage)
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EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product (1992)
(Video) - Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
Self - The Monster / Self - Doctor Gustav Niemann / Self - Dr. Henry Jekyll / Self - Mr. Hyde / Self - Baron Victor von Frankenstein (archive footage) |
Father Dowling Mysteries (1991)
(TV Series) - Imhotep (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 1991)
The Mummy's Curse Mystery (Feb
21,
1991)
Season 3,
Episode 17
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Imhotep (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Murphy Brown (1989)
(TV Series) - Self / Self - opening credits (archive footage) (1 episode, 1989)
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (Feb
13,
1989)
Season 1,
Episode 12
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Self / Self - opening credits (archive footage)
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Horrible Horror (1986)
(Video) - Gruesome, In clips from 'Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome' (archive footage) |
Moonlighting (1986)
(TV Series) - Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 1986)
The Bride of Tupperman (Jan
14,
1986)
Season 2,
Episode 11
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Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The Horror of It All (1983)
(TV Movie) - Self - Frankenstein / Self - Cabman John Gray (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Absurdiade - Schmunzeltraining für Sportfans (1980)
(TV Movie) - The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) |
McCloud (1971)
(TV Series) - Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) (uncredited) (1 episode, 1971)
Somebody's Out to Get Jennie (Nov
24,
1971)
Season 2,
Episode 3
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Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Film Review (1967)
(TV Mini-series) - John Gray (archive footage) (1 episode, 1967)
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore & Stanley Donen (Dec
19,
1967)
Season 1,
Episode 8
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John Gray (archive footage)
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Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1965)
(TV Series) - Self - Various (archive footage) (1 episode, 1965) |
Hollywood and the Stars (1964)
(TV Series) - Self - The Monster in Frankenstein's segment (archive footage) (1 episode, 1964)
Monsters We've Known and Loved (Jan
13,
1964)
Season 1,
Episode 15
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Self - The Monster in Frankenstein's segment (archive footage)
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The Veil (1958)
(TV Movie) - Sgt. Chester Willmore / Dr. Carlo Marcabienti / Andre Giraud / Dr. Francis Mason (archive footage) |
Destination Nightmare (1958)
(TV Movie) - Host / Ira Perry / Pete Wade Sr. / Professor Charles Goncourt / Morgan Debs (archive footage) |
Jack the Ripper (1958)
(TV Movie) - Capt. John Elwood / Jonas Atterbury / Dr. Francis Mason (archive footage) |
Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 5: Spike Jones in Hollywood (1953)
(Short) - Self (archive footage) |
Boo! (1932)
(Short) - Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein") (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Other (2 titles) |
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