Biography: life and films
Boris Karloff was an English actor whose birth name was William Henry Pratt. He was born in Honor Oak, London, England on 23rd November 1887 and died in Midhurst, Sussex, England on 2nd February 1969, aged 81.His best films as an actor include James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Robert Wise's thriller The Body Snatcher (1945), Mark Robson's Bedlam (1946) and Mario Bava's I tre volti della paura (1963).
Boris Karloff appeared in 164 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: William Nigh (6 films), Richard Thorpe (5), James Young (4), Rowland V. Lee (3), Nick Grinde (3), James Whale (3), Edward F. Cline (3), Duke Worne (3), Roger Corman (2), Roberto Bianchi Montero (2), Robert Thornby (2), Robert Day (2), Norman Z. McLeod (2), Michael Curtiz (2), Mervyn LeRoy (2), Mark Robson (2), Lionel Barrymore (2), Lew Landers (2), Lambert Hillyer (2), Karl Freund (2), Jules Bass (2), John Farrow (2), Jack Hill (2), Howard Hawks (2), Hobart Henley (2), George Fitzmaurice (2), Erle C. Kenton (2), David Butler (2), Christy Cabanne (2) and Bruce M. Mitchell (2).
His most frequent genres include: Horror (58 films), drama (55), comedy (27), Thriller (26), Fantasy (12), romance (9), Western (9), crime-thriller (7), comedy-romance (6), War (6), history (3), comedy-thriller (3), comedy-drama (3), Documentary (3) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Boris Karloff over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: a = actor
His Majesty, the American (1919) [a]
The Lightning Raider (1919) [a]
The Masked Rider (1919) [a]
The Prince and Betty (1919) [a]
The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920) [a]
The Deadlier Sex (1920) [a]
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) [a]
Cheated Hearts (1921) [a]
The Cave Girl (1921) [a]
The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921) [a]
Without Benefit of Clergy (1921) [a]
Nan of the North (1922) [a]
Omar the Tentmaker (1922) [a]
The Altar Stairs (1922) [a]
The Infidel (1922) [a]
The Man from Downing Street (1922) [a]
The Woman Conquers (1922) [a]
The Prisoner (1923) [a]
Dynamite Dan (1924) [a]
Riders of the Plains (1924) [a]
The Hellion (1924) [a]
Forbidden Cargo (1925) [a]
Lady Robinhood (1925) [a]
Parisian Nights (1925) [a]
Perils of the Wild (1925) [a]
The Prairie Wife (1925) [a]
Without Mercy (1925) [a]
Flames (1926) [a]
Flaming Fury (1926) [a]
Her Honor, the Governor (1926) [a]
Old Ironsides (1926) [a]
The Bells (1926) [a]
The Eagle of the Sea (1926) [a]
The Golden Web (1926) [a]
The Greater Glory (1926) [a]
The Man in the Saddle (1926) [a]
Let It Rain (1927) [a]
Soft Cushions (1927) [a]
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) [a]
The Love Mart (1927) [a]
The Meddlin' Stranger (1927) [a]
The Phantom Buster (1927) [a]
The Princess from Hoboken (1927) [a]
Two Arabian Knights (1927) [a]
Sharp Shooters (1928) [a]
The Little Wild Girl (1928) [a]
The Vanishing Rider (1928) [a]
Vultures of the Sea (1928) [a]
Anne Against the World (1929) [a]
Behind That Curtain (1929) [a]
Burning the Wind (1929) [a]
The Devil's Chaplain (1929) [a]
The Fatal Warning (1929) [a]
The King of the Kongo (1929) [a]
The Phantom of the North (1929) [a]
The Unholy Night (1929) [a]
The Bad One (1930) [a]
The Sea Bat (1930) [a]
The Utah Kid (1930) [a]
Cracked Nuts (1931) [a]
Five Star Final (1931) [a]
Graft (1931) [a]
I Like Your Nerve (1931) [a]
King of the Wild (1931) [a]
Smart Money (1931) [a]
Sous les verrous (1931) [a]
The Criminal Code (1931) [a]
The Guilty Generation (1931) [a]
The Mad Genius (1931) [a]
The Public Defender (1931) [a]
The Vanishing Legion (1931) [a]
Tonight or Never (1931) [a]
Young Donovan's Kid (1931) [a]
Behind the Mask (1932) [a]
Business and Pleasure (1932) [a]
Night World (1932) [a]
Scarface (1932) [a]
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) [a]
The Miracle Man (1932) [a]
The Mummy (1932) [a]
The Ghoul (1933) [a]
Gift of Gab (1934) [a]
The House of Rothschild (1934) [a]
The Lost Patrol (1934) [a]
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [a]
The Black Room (1935) [a]
The Raven (1935) [a]
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) [a]
Juggernaut (1936) [a]
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) [a]
Night Key (1937) [a]
West of Shanghai (1937) [a]
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) [a]
The Invisible Menace (1938) [a]
Devil's Island (1939) [a]
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) [a]
Son of Frankenstein (1939) [a]
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) [a]
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939) [a]
Tower of London (1939) [a]
Before I Hang (1940) [a]
British Intelligence (1940) [a]
Doomed to Die (1940) [a]
The Ape (1940) [a]
The Fatal Hour (1940) [a]
The Man with Nine Lives (1940) [a]
The Mummy's Hand (1940) [a]
You'll Find Out (1940) [a]
The Devil Commands (1941) [a]
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) [a]
House of Frankenstein (1944) [a]
The Climax (1944) [a]
The Mummy's Curse (1944) [a]
Isle of the Dead (1945) [a]
Bedlam (1946) [a]
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) [a]
Lured (1947) [a]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) [a]
Unconquered (1947) [a]
Tap Roots (1948) [a]
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) [a]
The Strange Door (1951) [a]
The Black Castle (1952) [a]
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) [a]
Il Mostro dell'isola (1954) [a]
Sabaka (1954) [a]
Colonel March Investigates (1955) [a]
Voodoo Island (1957) [a]
Frankenstein - 1970 (1958) [a]
Grip of the Strangler (1958) [a]
Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961) [a]
I tre volti della paura (1963) [a]
The Raven (1963) [a]
Mondo balordo (1964) [a]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964) [a]
The Daydreamer (1966) [a]
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) [a]
Way... Way Out (1966) [a]
The Venetian Affair (1967) [a]
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) [a]
House of Evil (1968) [a]
Targets (1968) [a]
The Fear Chamber (1968) [a]
Mad Monster Party? (1969) [a]
El Coleccionista de cadáveres (1970) [a]
La Muerte viviente (1971) [a]
The Incredible Invasion (1971) [a]
Madhouse (1974) [a]
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) [a]
Bride of Chucky (1998) [a]
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The very best period film dramas
The best French Films of the 1910s
