Boris Karloff — Actor (85)
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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.
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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.
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British Intelligence (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
British Intelligence
director: Terry O. Morse actor: Boris Karloff / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: British Intelligence Service
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
director: Thomas Hamilton actor: Boris Karloff / Sara Karloff …
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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The Invisible Ray (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Invisible Ray
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi …
other title: Il Raggio Invisibile / Tödliche Strahlen …
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
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Night Key (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Night Key
director: Lloyd Corrigan actor: Boris Karloff / Warren Hull …
other title: La chiave misteriosa / Alerte la nuit
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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The Climax (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Climax
director: George Waggner actor: Boris Karloff / Susanna Foster …
other title: La voce magica / La Passion du docteur Hohner …
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
director: John Rawlins actor: Boris Karloff / Ralph Byrd …
other title: Dick Tracy e il gas misterioso / Dick Tracy contra Siniestro …
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Corridors of Blood (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Corridors of Blood
director: Robert Day actor: Boris Karloff / Betta St. John …
other title: Prima dell'anestesia / Pasillos de sangre
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
director: Charles Barton actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Gianni e Pinotto e l'assassino misterioso / Deux nigauds chez les tueurs …
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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The Bells (1926) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
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] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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 TMDB WikiData
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.