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Boris Karloff

Highest Rated:: 100% The Raven (1935)
Lowest Rated:: 22% The Terror (The Haunting) (The Castle of Terror) (1963)

Birthday:: Nov 23, 1887
Birthplace:: Camberwell, London, England, UK
Bio:: The long-reigning king of Hollywood horror, Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887, in South London. The youngest of nine children, he was educated at London University in preparation for a career as a diplomat. However, in 1909, he emigrated to Canada to accept a job on a…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 22% - 100%

Number of Movies: 129

Box Office Since 2001: --

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2009		Walking Dead	Actor	--
2009		Golden Age Ghost Tales	Actor	--
2007		Heroes of War	Actor	--
2005		Twelve Suspenseful Classic Movies	Actor	--
2004		Extreme Fairy Tales - Featuring the Emperor's Nightingale	Actor	--
2003		The Black Room	Baron Gregor de Berghmann	--
2001		Heroes of Horror	Actor	--
2001		Tales of Frankenstein	Actor	--
1996		100 Years of Horror	Actor	--
1988		Monsters & Maniacs	Actor	--
1974		Blood Flood	Actor	--
1974		Blood Flood	Actor	--
1972		The Fear Chamber (Torture Zone) (The Torture Chamber)	Actor	--
1971		Isle of the Snake People	Damballah	--
1968		Torture Zone	Actor	--
1968	63%	Mad Monster Party	Baron Boris von Frankenstein	--
1968		Dance of Death	Actor	--
1968	88%	Targets	Byron Orlok	--
1968		House of Evil,(Dance of Death)	Actor	--
1968		Mondo Balordo	Actor	--
1968		Curse of the Crimson Altar	Prof. Marshe	--
1968		Alien Terror	Prof. John Meyer	--
1967		Cauldron of Blood	Franz Badulescu	--
1967		The Venetian Affair	Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud	--
1967	100%	The Sorcerers	Professor Marcus Montserrat	--
1966		The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini	The Corpse	--
1966		The Daydreamer	The Rat	--
1965	100%	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Narrator	--
1965	80%	Die, Monster, Die! (Monster of Terror)	Nahum Witley	--
1964		Bikini Beach	Actor	--
1964	86%	The Comedy of Terrors (The Graveside Story)	Amos Hinchley	--
1964		Mondo Balordo	Actor	--
1963	22%	The Terror (The Haunting) (The Castle of Terror)	Baron Von Leppe	--
1963	91%	The Raven	Dr. Scarabus	--
1963	83%	Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura) (The Three Faces of Fear) (The Three Faces of Terror)	Gorca	--
1962	67%	Tales of Terror	Actor	--
1962		Corridors Of Blood	Actor	--
1960		Dupont Show of the Month	Actor	--
1959		Corridors of Blood	Dr. Thomas Bolton	--
1958		Destination Nightmare	Actor	--
1958		Grip of the Strangler (The Haunted Strangler)	James Rankin	--
1958		Jack the Ripper	Actor	--
1958		Veil	Actor	--
1958		Frankenstein - 1970	Baron Victor von Frankenstein	--
1957		Voodoo Island (Silent Death)	Dr. Phillip Knight	--
1954		Colonel March - V. 1	Actor	--
1954		Colonel March - V. 2	Actor	--
1954		Colonel March - V. 5	Actor	--
1953		Il mostro dell'isola (The Island Monster)	Don Gaetano	--
1953	83%	Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr. Henry Jekyll	--
1953		Sabaka	General Pollegar	--
1953		Monster of the Island	Actor	--
1952		The Black Castle	Dr. Meissen	--
1951		Golden Age of TV Dramas	Actor	--
1951		The Strange Door (Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door )	Voltan	--
1949		Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff	Swami Talpur	--
1948		Tap Roots	Tishomingo	--
1947		Unconquered	Guyasuta Chief of the Senecas	--
1947		Lured	Artist	--
1947	80%	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Dr. Hugo Hollingshead	--
1947		Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (Dick Tracy Meets Karloff)(Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure)	Gruesome	--
1946	88%	Bedlam	Master George Sims	--
1945	81%	The Body Snatcher	John Gray	--
1945	86%	Isle of the Dead	Gen. Nikolas Pherides	--
1944		Climax	Actor	--
1944	60%	House of Frankenstein	Dr. Gustav Niemann	--
1944		The Climax	Dr. Hohner	--
1942		The Boogie Man Will Get You	Prof. Nathaniel Billings	--
1941		The Devil Commands (The Devil Said No)	Dr. Julian Blair	--
1941		The Black Cat	Actor	--
1940		Devil's Island	Dr. Charles Gaudet	--
1940		Doomed to Die (The Mystery of Wentworth Castle)	James Lee Wong	--
1940		The Fatal Hour	James Lee Wong	--
1940		You'll Find Out (Here Come the Boogie Men)	Judge Mainwaring	--
1940		The Man With Nine Lives (Behind the Door)	Dr. Leon Kravaal	--
1940		Before I Hang	Dr. John Garth	--
1940		British Intelligence	Voldar	--
1940	40%	The Ape	Dr. Bernard Adrian	--
1939		Mr. Wong in Chinatown	James Lee Wong	--
1939		Tower of London	Mord the Executioner	--
1939		The Man They Could Not Hang	Dr. Henryk Savaard	--
1939	94%	Son of Frankenstein	The Monster	--
1939		Mystery of Mr. Wong	James Lee Wong	--
1938		Mr. Wong Detective	James Lee Wong	--
1937		Charlie Chan at the Olympics	Gravelle	--
1937		Charlie Chan at the Opera	Actor	--
1937		Night Key	Dave Mallory	--
1937		West of Shanghai	Gen. Wu Yen Fang	--
1936		The Walking Dead	John Ellman	--
1936		Juggernaut	Dr. Sartorius	--
1936	80%	The Invisible Ray	Dr. Janos Rukh	--
1936		The Man Who Changed His Mind	Dr. Laurence	--
1936		Charlie Chan at the Race Track	Gravelle	--
1935		Mystery of Mr. Wong	Actor	--
1935	100%	The Bride of Frankenstein	The Monster	--
1935	100%	The Raven	Edmond Bateman	--
1934	86%	The Black Cat	Hjalmar Poelzig	--
1934		Black Friday	Actor	--
1934	100%	The Lost Patrol	Sanders	--
1934	100%	The House of Rothschild	Count Ledrantz	--
1933		The Ghoul	Prof. Morlant	--
1932		Night World	"Happy" MacDonald	--
1932	100%	The Old Dark House	Morgan	--
1932	100%	Scarface	Gaffney	--
1932	86%	The Mask of Fu Manchu	Dr. Fu Manchu	--
1932		The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood	Actor	--
1932	92%	The Mummy	Im-Ho-Tep/Ardeth Bey	--
1931		Pardon Us	The Tiger (in French version only)	--
1931		Criminal Code	Ned Galloway	--
1931		Vanishing Legion	Actor	--
1931		Cracked Nuts	Revolutionary	--
1931		The Guilty Generation	Tony Ricca	--
1931		Tonight or Never	The Waiter	--
1931	91%	Five Star Final	"Reverend" Vernon Isopod	--
1931	100%	Frankenstein	The Monster	--
1931		Smart Money	Sport Williams	--
1930		Mothers Cry	Actor	--
1930		Glamour Girls	Actor	--
1929		King of the Kongo	Actor	--
1929		Behind That Curtain	Sudanese Servant	--
1927		Tarzan & the Golden Lion	Chief of the Waziri	--
1927		Two Arabian Knights	Purser	--
1926		The Bells	Actor	--
1926		Nickelhopper	Actor	--
1926		Old Ironsides	A Saracen Guard	--
1924		Dynamite Dan	Tony	--
1920		The Last of the Mohicans	Actor	--
1919		His Majesty, The American	Actor	--
		I Spy, The Best Of	Actor	--

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Renowned as the master of American horror cinema, Boris Karloff's deep, throaty voice and imposing onscreen presence made him the prototype for big screen villainy in the early part of the 20th centry.

- submitted by Tracey c (3 years ago)