Boris Karloff
206 movies · 22 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 23, 1887
- Died
- Feb 2, 1969 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Camberwell, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- William Henry Pratt · بوریس کارلوف
Biography
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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Boris Karloff: movies and TV shows
Acting (228)
- Upcoming Suspense: A Night at an Inn
as Toff
- 2026 The Orbit of Minor Satellites
as Roger Ashley Norton
- 2024 The Last Repair Shop
as The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2014 Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Various roles (archive footage)
- 2012
- 2007 Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
as Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
- 2006 Terror in the Tropics
as Mr. Wong (archive footage)
- 2004
- 2003 The Mesmerist
as (archive footage)
- 2001 Heroes of Horror
as (archive footage)
- 2000 The Many Faces of Dracula
as The Monster (archive footage)
- 1998 Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
- 1994 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
as (voice - archive footage)
- 1992 Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage)
- 1991 Halloween Monster Bash
as Baron Von Leppe (archive footage)
- 1991 Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Doctor Gustav Niemann (archive footage)
- 1991 Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as The Monster / Gustav Niemann / Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / etc.
- 1990 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
- 1990 Abbott and Costello in the Movies
as Archival
- 1989 Transylvania Twist
as Man in Room (archive footage)
- 1988 Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1987 Creepy Classics
as Dr. Scarabus - (archive footage)
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
- 1983 The Horror of It All
as Frankenstein / Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
- 1980
- 1979 The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
- 1974 Madhouse
as (archive footage)
- 1971 Alien Terror
as Prof. John Mayer
- 1971 Isle of the Snake People
as Carl van Molder / Damballah
- 1970 Hatchet for the Honeymoon
as Gorca (archive footage)
- 1970
- 1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Professor John Marsh
- 1968
- 1968 Targets
as Byron Orlok
- 1968 Fear Chamber
as Dr. Carl Mandel
- 1968 Macabre Serenade
as Matthias Morteval
- 1968 Cauldron of Blood
as Franz Badulescu
- 1967 The Sorcerers
as Prof. Marcus Monserrat
- 1967 Mad Monster Party?
as Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice)
- 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
as Narrator / The Grinch (voice)
- 1966 The Venetian Affair
as Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud
- 1966
- 1966 The Daydreamer
as The Rat (voice)
- 1966 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
as The Corpse
- 1965 Die, Monster, Die!
as Nahum Witley
- 1965
- 1964 Bikini Beach
as Art Dealer
- 1964 Today's Teens
as Narrator
- 1964 The Comedy of Terrors
as Amos Hinchley
- 1964 A Fool's World
as Narrator
- 1963 Black Sabbath
as Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak")
- 1963 The Terror
as Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe
- 1963 The Raven
as Dr. Scarabus
- 1962
- 1962 The Incredible Doktor Markesan
as Dr. Konrad Markesan
- 1962 Arsenic & Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
- 1962
- 1960 Who Killed Chung Ling Soo?
as Narrator
- 1960
- 1958 Corridors of Blood
as Dr. Thomas Bolton
- 1958 Heart of Darkness
as Mr. Kurtz
- 1958 Frankenstein 1970
as Baron Viktor von Frankenstein
- 1958 Grip of the Strangler
as James Rankin
- 1958 Destination Nightmare
as Host / Ira Perry / Pete Wade Sr. / Professor Charles Goncourt / Morgan Debs
- 1958 Jack the Ripper
as Host / Capt. John Elwood / Jonas Atterbury / Dr. Francis Mason
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957 The Juggler of Our Lady
as Narrator (voice)
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Lark
as Bishop Cauchon
- 1957 Voodoo Island
as Phillip Knight
- 1956 Rendezvous in Black
as Ward Allen
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955 A Connecticut Yankee
as King Arthur
- 1955 Sting of Death
as Mr. Mycroft
- 1955 Sabaka
as General Pollegar
- 1954
- 1954 The Island Monster
as Don Gaetano
- 1953
- 1953 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
- 1953 Colonel March Investigates
as Colonel March
- 1953
- 1952 The Black Castle
as Dr. Meissen
- 1951
- 1951 The Strange Door
as Voltan
- 1951
- 1951
- 1950
- 1950
- 1949
- 1949 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as Swami Talpur
- 1949
- 1948
- 1948 Tap Roots
as Tishomingo
- 1947 Unconquered
as Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
- 1947 Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
as Gruesome
- 1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Dr. Hollingshead
- 1947 Lured
as Charles van Druten
- 1946 Bedlam
as George Sims
- 1945 Isle of the Dead
as Gen. Nikolas Pherides
- 1945 The Body Snatcher
as John Gray
- 1944 The Mummy's Curse
as Kharis in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
- 1944 House of Frankenstein
as Dr. Gustav Niemann
- 1944 The Climax
as Dr. Friedrich Hohner
- 1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Prof. Nathaniel Billings
- 1941 The Devil Commands
as Dr. Julian Blair
- 1940 You'll Find Out
as Judge Spencer Mainwaring
- 1940 The Ape
as Dr. Bernard Adrian
- 1940 The Mummy's Hand
as Kharis (archive footage / uncredited)
- 1940 Before I Hang
as Dr. John Garth
- 1940 Doomed to Die
as James Lee Wong
- 1940 The Man with Nine Lives
as Dr. Leon Kravaal
- 1940 Black Friday
as Dr. Ernest Sovac
- 1940 The Fatal Hour
as James Lee Wong
- 1939 Tower of London
as Mord
- 1939 British Intelligence
as Valdar
- 1939 The Man They Could Not Hang
as Dr. Henryk Savaard
- 1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown
as Mr. James Lee Wong
- 1939 The Mystery of Mr. Wong
as James Lee Wong
- 1939 Son of Frankenstein
as The Monster
- 1939 Devil's Island
as Dr. Charles Gaudet
- 1938 Mr. Wong, Detective
as James Lee Wong
- 1938 The Invisible Menace
as Jevries
- 1937 West of Shanghai
as "General" Wu Yen Fang
- 1937 Night Key
as David Mallory
- 1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera
as Gravelle
- 1936 The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dr. Laurence
- 1936 Juggernaut
as Dr. Victor Sartorius
- 1936 The Walking Dead
as John Ellman
- 1936 The Invisible Ray
as Dr. Janos Rukh
- 1935 The Black Room
as Baron Gregor de Berghman / Anton de Berghman
- 1935 The Raven
as Edmond Bateman
- 1935 Bride of Frankenstein
as The Monster
- 1934 The Black Cat
as Hjalmar Poelzig
- 1934 The House of Rothschild
as Count Ledrantz
- 1934 The Lost Patrol
as Sanders
- 1933 The Ghoul
as Prof. Morlant
- 1932 The Mummy
as Imhotep / Ardath Bey
- 1932 Boo
as Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein")
- 1932 The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
- 1932 The Old Dark House
as Morgan
- 1932 Skyscraper Souls
as Man Approaching Ticket Counter
- 1932 Night World
as 'Happy' MacDonald
- 1932 Scarface
as Gaffney
- 1932 The Miracle Man
as Nikko
- 1932 The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
as Boris Karloff
- 1932 Behind the Mask
as Jim Henderson
- 1932 Business and Pleasure
as Sheik Ali-Ben Joseph
- 1931 Frankenstein
as The Monster
- 1931 The Guilty Generation
as Tony Ricca
- 1931 The Yellow Ticket
as Drunken Orderly
- 1931 The Mad Genius
as Fedor's Father (uncredited)
- 1931 Five Star Final
as T. Vernon Isopod
- 1931 Graft
as Terry
- 1931 I Like Your Nerve
as Luigi - Pacheco's Butler
- 1931 The Public Defender
as The Professor
- 1931 Smart Money
as Sport Williams
- 1931 Young Donovan's Kid
as Cokey Joe
- 1931 The Vanishing Legion
as The Voice (voice)
- 1931 Cracked Nuts
as Boris - First Revolutionary
- 1931 King of the Wild
as Mustapha
- 1931 Tonight or Never
as Waiter
- 1931 The Criminal Code
as Ned Galloway
- 1930 The Utah Kid
as Henchman Baxter
- 1930 The Sea Bat
as Corsican
- 1930 The Bad One
as Monsieur Gaston
- 1929 The Unholy Night
as Abdul Mohammed Bey - the Hindu Lawyer (uncredited)
- 1929 The King of the Kongo
as Scarface Macklin
- 1929 Behind That Curtain
as Beetham's Manservent
- 1929 The Phantom of the North
as Jules Gregg
- 1929
- 1929 Two Sisters
as Cecil
- 1929 The Devil's Chaplain
as Boris
- 1929 The Fatal Warning
as Mullins
- 1929 Burning the Wind
as Pug Doran
- 1928 The Little Wild Girl
as Maurice Kent
- 1928 Vultures of the Sea
as Grouchy
- 1928 The Vanishing Rider
as The Villain
- 1928 Sharp Shooters
as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
- 1927 The Love Mart
as Fleming
- 1927 Two Arabian Knights
as Purser
- 1927 Soft Cushions
as The Chief Conspirator
- 1927 The Phantom Buster
as Ramon
- 1927 The Meddlin' Stranger
as Al Meggs
- 1927 Tarzan and the Golden Lion
as Owaza
- 1927 The Princess from Hoboken
as Pavel
- 1927 Let It Rain
as Crook
- 1926 Old Ironsides
as Saracen Guard (uncredited)
- 1926 Flaming Fury
as Gaspard
- 1926 The Nickel-Hopper
as Dance Hall Masher
- 1926 The Eagle of the Sea
as Pirate (uncredited)
- 1926 Flames
as Blackie Blanchette
- 1926 The Golden Web
as Dave Sinclair
- 1926 The Bells
as The Mesmerist
- 1926 Her Honor, the Governor
as Snipe Collins
- 1926 The Man in the Saddle
as Robber (uncredited)
- 1926 The Greater Glory
as Scissors Grinder
- 1925 Without Mercy
as Madame Gordon's 2nd Henchman (uncredited)
+ 28 more credits
Behind the camera (2)
- 2026
- 1964 Bikini Beach
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Talk shows and appearances (48)
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- 1964 Shindig!
1 episode
- 1964
- 1962
- 1962 Out of This World
14 episodes
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960 Thriller
72 episodes
- 1957 The Lux Show
1 episode
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
2 episodes
- 1956 The Rosemary Clooney Show
1 episode
- 1955 This Is Your Life
1 episode
- 1954 The George Gobel Show
1 episode
- 1951 The Red Skelton Show
1 episode
- 1951 Down You Go
7 episodes
- 1950 What's My Line?
1 episode
- 1949 Lights Out
1 episode
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