Boris Karloff — Actor (83)
Behind That Curtain (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Behind That Curtain
director: Irving Cummings actor: Warner Baxter / Lois Moran
other title: Tras la cortina
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk.
The Venetian Affair (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Venetian Affair
director: Jerry Thorpe actor: Robert Vaughn / Felicia Farr
other title: Suspense a Venezia / Mitternacht - Canale Grande
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Changed His Mind
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Boris Karloff / Anna Lee
other title: Der Mann, der sein Gehirn austauschte / Cerveaux de rechange
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
The Miracle Man (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Miracle Man
other title: Spiel am Abgrund
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Macabre Serenade (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Serenata Macabra
director: Juan Ibáñez / Jack Hill actor: Boris Karloff / Julissa
other title: Totentanz im Schreckensschloss / Serenata Macabra
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Alien Terror (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Invasión Siniestra
other title: Alien terror / Invasión Siniestra
Near the end of the 19th century, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, the scientist Dr. Isabel Reed, accidentally invent a powerful ray. An alien travels to Earth to destroy the machine since it would be a threat to the universe. He initially possesses the mind of Thomas, a sex maniac and serial killer, to get close to Mayer during the demonstration of the machine to scientists and the military. Mayer's niece, Laura, meets an acquaintance of her uncle, the chemist Dr. Paul Rosten, and Mayer invites him to join the research. When Thomas gets close to Mayer, the alien also possesses his mind in order to destroy the device and his notes. Meanwhile, Thomas is not able to control his murderous impulses and attacks several women with a straight razor.
The Storm (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Storm
A newlywed woman is alone in her home during a devastating storm. As she waits for her husband to return, she is besieged by menacing sounds throughout the house, power outages, a jumpy pet black cat, and a creepy cabbie. After much deliberation, she decides to investigate a strange disturbance in the storm cellar.
Doomed to Die (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Doomed to Die
other title: Condannato a morte / Condamné à Mort
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
director: Charles Braverman actor: Vincent Price / Billy Van
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
The Invisible Menace (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Menace
director: John Farrow actor: Boris Karloff / Marie Wilson
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Frankenstein 1970 (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Frankenstein 1970
director: Howard W. Koch actor: Boris Karloff / Jana Lund
other title: Die Hexenküche des Dr. Rambow / Frankenstein contre l'homme invisible
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
The Criminal Code (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Criminal Code
director: Howard Hawks actor: Walter Huston / Phillips Holmes
other title: Codice penale / Das Strafgesetzbuch
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Night World (1932) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Night World
director: Hobart Henley actor: Lew Ayres / Mae Clarke
other title: Cabaret de nuit
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Die, Monster, Die! (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die, Monster, Die!
director: Daniel Haller actor: Boris Karloff / Nick Adams
other title: La morte dall'occhio di cristallo / Morte Para Um Monstro
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.