Boris Karloff — Actor (85)
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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 TMDB WikiData
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] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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 Skybridge
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] WikiData IMDb 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] IMDb WikiData 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 TMDB WikiData
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.
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The Walking Dead (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Walking Dead
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Boris Karloff / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: L'ombra che cammina / Der wandelnde Leichnam …
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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The Body Snatcher (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Body Snatcher
director: Robert Wise actor: Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi …
other title: La jena / Ligrøveren …
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
director: Chuck Jones actor: Boris Karloff / June Foray …
other title: Come il Grinch rubò il Natale / Die gestohlenen Weihnachtsgeschenke …
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
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The Emperor's Nightingale (1949) [Movie] TMDB
Císařův slavík
director: Jiří Trnka / Miloš Makovec actor: Helena Patočková / Jaromír Sobota …
other title: L'usignolo dell'Imperatore / El emperador y el ruiseñor …
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
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The Movie Orgy (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Movie Orgy
director: Joe Dante actor: Andy Devine / Andy Devine …
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.