Boris Karloff — Actor (49)
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The Bells (1926) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Bells
director: James Young actor: Lionel Barrymore / Caroline Frances Cooke …
A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...
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King of the Wild (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
King of the Wild
director: Richard Thorpe / B. Reeves Eason actor: Walter Miller / Tom Santschi …
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
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The Ape (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ape
director: William Nigh actor: Boris Karloff / Maris Wrixon …
other title: Le Singe tueur / El gorila
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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The King of the Kongo (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The King of the Kongo
director: Richard Thorpe actor: Jacqueline Logan / Walter Miller …
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
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The Comedy of Terrors (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Comedy of Terrors
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Vincent Price / Peter Lorre …
other title: Il clan del terrore / Liget går amok …
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
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The Mad Genius (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Mad Genius
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Barrymore / Marian Marsh …
other title: El ídolo / Le Génie fou …
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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The Sorcerers (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sorcerers
director: Michael Reeves actor: Boris Karloff / Catherine Lacey …
other title: Il killer di Satana / Im Banne des Dr. Monserrat …
An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
director: Don Weis actor: Tommy Kirk / Deborah Walley …
other title: Il castello delle donne maledette / Erbschaft um Mitternacht …
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
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Bedlam (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bedlam
director: Mark Robson actor: Boris Karloff / Anna Lee …
other title: Manicomio / A Casa Sinistra …
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
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The Incredible Doktor Markesan (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
director: Robert Florey actor: Boris Karloff / Dick York …
Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
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A Fool's World (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mondo Balordo
director: Albert T. Viola / Roberto Bianchi Montero actor: Boris Karloff
other title: Mondo Balordo / Absurdo mundo …
Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Mask of Fu Manchu
director: Charles Brabin actor: Boris Karloff / Lewis Stone …
other title: La maschera di Fu Manciu / Die Maske des Fu Manchu …
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Curse of the Crimson Altar
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Christopher Lee / Boris Karloff …
other title: Black Horror - Le messe nere / Die Hexe des Grafen Dracula …
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
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Isle of the Dead (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Isle of the Dead
director: Mark Robson actor: Boris Karloff / Ellen Drew …
other title: Il vampiro dell'isola / L'Île des morts …
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
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Mad Monster Party? (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mad Monster Party?
director: Jules Bass actor: Boris Karloff / Allen Swift …
other title: Frankensteins Monster-Party / Mad monster party? …
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
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Madhouse (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Madhouse
director: Jim Clark actor: Vincent Price / Peter Cushing …
other title: Das Schreckenshaus des Dr. Death / Mansión sangrienta
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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Boo (1932) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Boo
director: Albert DeMond actor: Morton Lowry / Mae Clarke …
other title: Scream and Run / Boo!
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
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The Ghoul (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Ghoul
director: T. Hayes Hunter actor: Boris Karloff / Cedric Hardwicke …
other title: Der Ghul / El resucitado …
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.