Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt passed away on Feb. 2, 1969, although generations of film-goers knew him better as "Boris Karloff", star of the classic 1931 film version of Mary Shelley's early science-fiction novel, Frankenstein.

Tell them Boris sent you .... Chuck Wells 2009

As the definition implies, it really is a term of honor and yet the corporate media uses it as an epithet and term of derision – as if uttering the word will cause viewers and readers to shudder and recoil in horror ... a kind of Boris Karloff effect.

The "Populist" Epithet �� On Smearing The Majority 2008

But even this was anticipated, as Mr. Zinoman concedes, by the sniper in Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets" 1968, a strikingly smart film, co-starring Boris Karloff, that elegizes the passing of horror's old guard.

When the Silver Screen Went Red Andrew Stuttaford 2011

All classics with the astounding performance by Boris Karloff in the 1931 Frankenstein showing why the flat-topped creature is one of cinema's defining images.

Halloween horrors: new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2011

I also remember a kid with vampire teeth and a littel black cape chasing this red faced Chinese-looking boy, saying, in a received Boris Karloff accent "I vant to suck your Oriental."

Understand, Rubberband? Christian Crumlish 2011

Boris Karloff's only daughter doesn't like frightening movies.

Debra Levine: Daughter of Frankenstein Debra Levine 2011

When, during my first visit, Eiko's eyes flickered open, glinting from her shadowy bed, and she took us in her gaze, the sight was as vivid as when Boris Karloff's seemingly all-seeing eye peers out, laserlike, from within his winding bandages in the 1932 horror movie "The Mummy."

In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers Robert Greskovic 2011

Frankenstein's monster, as played by Boris Karloff.

Frankenstein's hour of creation identified by astronomers 2011

Buzz is welcome, though, for a work of punishing hard rock that kicks off with this hearts-and-flowers couplet: "I would cut my legs and t—s off / When I think of Boris Karloff."

A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage Steve Dougherty 2011

Boris Karloff's only daughter doesn't like frightening movies.

Debra Levine: Daughter of Frankenstein Debra Levine 2011