Boris Karloff A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02)
Boris Karloff, eigentlich William Henry Pratt, war ein britischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler. Karloff wurde vor allem als Darsteller in Horrorfilmen bekannt, nachdem er die Rolle des Monsters in Frankenstein gespielt hatte. Boris Karloff, eigentlich William Henry Pratt (* November in London, im heutigen Bezirk Southwark; † 2. Februar in Midhurst, West Sussex. - Erkunde Mike Alabamas Pinnwand „Boris Karloff“ auf Pinterest. Weitere Ideen zu Klassische horrorfilme, Horror, Frankenstein. Aus allen greifbaren Filmauftritten des Schauspielers Boris Karloff, berühmt geworden als Frankensteins Monster, hat nun Norbert Pfaffenbichler sein. Boris Karloff, die wahrscheinlich legendärste Gestalt des Horrorfilms, wurde am November als William Henry Pratt in Dulwich, London geboren. Er war. Boris Karloff wurde am November als William Henry Pratt und jüngstes von neun Kindern in London (heutiger Bezirk Southwark) geboren; sein Vater. Der britische Schauspieler Boris Karloff spielte Monsterrollen im Horrorfilm, in Parodien, Satiren, Grotesken, Komödien und B-Movies.
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Boris Karloff The Gentle Monster (1998).Boris Karloff , original name William Henry Pratt , born November 23, , London , England—died February 2, , Midhurst, West Sussex , English actor who became internationally famous for his sympathetic and chilling portrayal of the monster in the classic horror film Frankenstein Karloff, the youngest of nine children born to Edward and Eliza Pratt, deliberately failed a consular service exam in order to pursue a career in acting.
He sailed to Canada in and the following year joined a touring theatre troupe. A motion-picture extra as well as a stage actor from , he played minor roles in silent films until he earned recognition for his portrayal of a convict-turned-killer—a part he had played on Broadway in —in the sound film The Criminal Code Karloff also scored a major success on Broadway in the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace and frequently performed on radio in the s in such chilling programs as Lights Out and Inner Sanctum.
Karloff continued acting in the horror genre for the rest of his career, although he took other roles, including that of Mr. More typically, he played mad doctors and scientists, as in Black Friday and House of Frankenstein The popularity of horror films waned throughout the s, and Karloff began working in television as early as He guest-starred in many anthology shows and hosted several shows of his own, including the popular Thriller — His most famous television performance was in the animated special How the Grinch Stole Christmas , for which he provided the voices of both the Grinch and the narrator.
He later won a Grammy Award for his audio recording of the Dr. Seuss story. In this, as in most of his films, Karloff, with his soft voice and gentle demeanour, proved that horror was most effectively conveyed via understatement and quiet dignity.
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External Websites. However, the novel was not published until , at least eight years after Karloff had been using the name on stage and in silent films, opening the possibility that the Karlov character might have been named after Karloff after the novel's author noticed it in a cast listing and liked the sound of it rather than simply being a coincidence.
Warner Oland played "Boris Karlov" in a film version in Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H.
The Rider which features a "Prince Boris of Karlova", but as the novel was not published until , the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.
Karloff's daughter, Sara, publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears, "Karloff" or otherwise. One reason for the name change was to prevent embarrassment to his family.
Whether or not his brothers all dignified members of the British Foreign Service actually considered young William the "black sheep of the family" for having become an actor, Karloff apparently worried they felt that way.
He did not reunite with his family until he returned to Britain to make The Ghoul , extremely worried that his siblings would disapprove of his new, macabre claim to world fame.
Instead, his brothers jostled for position around him and happily posed for publicity photographs. After the photo was taken, Karloff's brothers immediately started asking about getting a copy of their own.
The story of the photo became one of Karloff's favorites. After the devastating tornado in Regina on 30 June , Karloff and other performers helped with clean-up efforts.
Clair Co. Whilst he was trying to establish his acting career, Karloff had to perform years of manual labour in Canada and the U. He was left with back problems from which he suffered for the rest of his life.
Because of his health, he did not enlist in World War I. During this period, Karloff worked in various theatrical stock companies across the U.
Some acting companies mentioned were the Harry St. By early he was working with the Maud Amber Players in Vallejo, California, but because of the Spanish Flu outbreak in the San Francisco area and the fear of infection, the troupe was disbanded.
He was able to find work with the Haggerty Repertory for a while according to the obituary of Joseph Paul Haggerty, he and Boris Karloff remained lifelong friends.
Once Karloff arrived in Hollywood, he made dozens of silent films , but this work was sporadic, and he often had to take up manual labour such as digging ditches or delivering construction plaster to earn a living.
He was in another serial, The Masked Rider , the first of his appearances to survive. He played an Indian in The Last of the Mohicans and he would often be cast as an Arab or Indian in his early films.
Karloff's first major role came in a film serial, The Hope Diamond Mystery Karloff went back to bit part status in Never the Twain Shall Meet directed by Maurice Tourneur but he had a good support role in Lady Robinhood A film which brought Karloff recognition was The Criminal Code , a prison drama directed by Howard Hawks in which he reprised a dramatic part he had played on stage.
In the same period, Karloff had a small role as a mob boss in Hawks' gangster film Scarface , but the film was not released until because of difficult censorship issues.
Another significant role in the autumn of saw Karloff play a key supporting part as an unethical newspaper reporter in Five Star Final , a film about tabloid journalism which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Karloff acted in eighty movies before being found by James Whale and cast in Frankenstein Karloff's role as Frankenstein's monster was physically demanding — it necessitated a bulky costume with four-inch platform boots — but the costume and extensive makeup produced a lasting image.
The costume was a job in itself for Karloff with the shoes weighing 11 pounds 5. Pierce had created. It took a while for Karloff's stardom to be established with the public — he had small roles in Behind the Mask , Business and Pleasure and The Miracle Man Back at Universal, he was cast as Imhotep who is revived in The Mummy It was as successful at the box-office as the other two films and Karloff was now established as a star of horror films.
Karloff returned to England to star in The Ghoul , then made a non-horror film for John Ford, The Lost Patrol , where his performance was highly acclaimed.
Horror, however, had now become Karloff's primary genre, and he gave a string of lauded performances in Universal's horror films , including several with Bela Lugosi , his main rival as heir to Lon Chaney 's status as the leading horror film star.
While the long-standing, creative partnership between Karloff and Lugosi never led to a close friendship, it produced some of the actors' most revered and enduring productions, beginning with The Black Cat and continuing with Gift of Gab , in which both had cameos.
Then he and Lugosi were reunited for The Raven Karloff was then cast in a Warner Bros. Because the Motion Picture Production Code known as the Hays Code began to be seriously enforced in , horror films suffered a decline in the second half of the s.
He returned to Hollywood to play a supporting role in Charlie Chan at the Opera then did a science fiction film, Night Key Karloff went to Monogram to play the title role of a Chinese detective in Mr.
Wong, Detective , which led to a series. Karloff's portrayal of the character is an example of Hollywood's use of yellowface and its portrayal of East Asians in the earlier half of the 20th century.
He had another heroic role in Devil's Island Universal found reissuing Dracula and Frankenstein led to success at the box-office and began to produce horror films again starting with Son of Frankenstein After The Mystery of Mr.
Wong and Mr. In between he did a fifth and final Mr Wong film, Doomed to Die Karloff appeared at a celebrity baseball game as Frankenstein's monster in , hitting a gag home run and making catcher Buster Keaton fall into an acrobatic dead faint as the monster stomped into home plate.
Karloff finished a six picture commitment with Monogram with The Ape An enthusiastic performer, he returned to the Broadway stage in the original production of Arsenic and Old Lace in , in which he played a homicidal gangster enraged to be frequently mistaken for Karloff.
Frank Capra cast Raymond Massey in the film , which was shot in , while Karloff was still appearing in the role on Broadway. The play's producers allowed the film to be made conditionally: it was not to be released until the production closed.
He also starred in a radio adaptation produced by Screen Guild Theatre in In , he underwent a spinal operation to relieve a chronic arthritic condition.
Karloff returned to film roles in The Climax , an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the success of Phantom of the Opera More liked was House of Frankenstein , where Karloff played the villainous Dr.
Niemann and the monster was played by Glenn Strange. Karloff left Universal because he thought the Frankenstein franchise had run its course; the entries in the series after Son of Frankenstein were B-pictures.
Berg wrote that the last installment in which Karloff appeared— House of Frankenstein —was what he called a " 'monster clambake,' with everything thrown in—Frankenstein, Dracula, a hunchback and a 'man-beast' that howled in the night.
It was too much. Karloff thought it was ridiculous and said so. Horror films experienced a decline in popularity after the war, and Karloff found himself working in other genres.
Hugo Hollingshead, a psychiatrist. Director Norman Z. McLeod shot a sequence with Karloff in the Frankenstein monster make-up, but it was deleted from the finished film.
Karloff appeared in a film noir, Lured , and as an Indian in Unconquered During this period, Karloff was a frequent guest on radio programmes, whether it was starring in Arch Oboler 's Chicago-based Lights Out productions including the episode "Cat Wife" or spoofing his horror image with Fred Allen or Jack Benny.
In , he was the host and star of Starring Boris Karloff , a radio and television anthology series for the ABC broadcasting network.
He appeared as the villainous Captain Hook in Peter Pan in a stage musical adaptation which also featured Jean Arthur.
During the s, he appeared on British television in the series Colonel March of Scotland Yard , in which he portrayed John Dickson Carr 's fictional detective Colonel March, who was known for solving apparently impossible crimes.
Karloff appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Karloff, along with H. He served as host and frequent star of the anthology series The Veil which was never broadcast due to financial problems at the producing studio; the complete series was rediscovered in the s.
In the "mad scientist" role in Frankenstein as Baron Victor von Frankenstein II, the grandson of the original creator. In the finale, it is revealed that the crippled Baron has given his own face to the monster.
During this period, he hosted and acted in a number of television series, including Thriller and Out of This World. Karloff appeared in Black Sabbath directed by Mario Bava.
Corman used Karloff in The Terror playing a baron who murdered his wife. In , he played an eccentric Spanish professor who believes himself to be Don Quixote in a whimsical episode of I Spy titled "Mainly on the Plains".
In the mids, he enjoyed a late-career surge in the United States when he narrated the made-for-television animated film of Dr.
Grinch " was sung by the American voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft. Karloff later received a Grammy Award for " Best Recording For Children " after the recording was commercially released.
He appeared in Mad Monster Party? Karloff starred in Targets , a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich , featuring two separate stories that converge into one.
In one, a disturbed young man kills his family, then embarks on a killing spree. In the other, a famous horror-film actor contemplates then confirms his retirement, agreeing to one last appearance at a drive-in cinema.
Karloff starred as the retired horror film actor, Byron Orlok, a thinly disguised version of himself; Orlok was facing an end of life crisis, which he resolved through a confrontation with the gunman at the drive-in cinema.
Around the same time, he played occult expert Professor Marsh in a British production titled The Crimson Cult Curse of the Crimson Altar , also , which was the last Karloff film to be released during his lifetime.
This was a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara. Karloff's scenes were directed by Jack Hill and shot back-to-back in Los Angeles in the spring of The films were then completed in Mexico.
All four were released posthumously, with the last, The Incredible Invasion, not released until , two years after Karloff's death.
Cauldron of Blood , shot in Spain in and co-starring Viveca Lindfors , was also released after Karloff's death.
While shooting his final films, Karloff suffered from emphysema. Only half of one lung was still functioning and he required oxygen between takes.
The recording was originally released in A download of his performance is available from audible. Tales of the Frightened Belmont Books, , though based on the recordings by Karloff of the same title, and featuring his image on the book cover, contained stories written by Michael Avallone ; the second volume, More Tales of the Frightened , contained stories authored by Robert Lory.
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