Boris Karloff ... Universal monster movies, paying homage to the iconic imagery and storytelling that Karloff helped to ...

Over one hundred years later, in 1931, a hard-working but relatively unknown actor named Boris Karloff was cast to play Frankenstein’s monster in James Whale’s now classic movie adaptation.

Pratt, better known to the world as Boris Karloff—and best known as the Frankenstein monster—died ... of discernment who disapproved of modern movie monsters as “dehumanized creatures ...