Boris Karloff’s long and storied career in film didn’t begin with horror films. ... Through Jack Pierce’s famous make-up, Karloff gets across the Monster’s terrible loneliness, ...

Actor Boris Karloff shot to fame when he played Frankenstein’s undead monster in James Whale’s 1931 classic “Frankenstein” film. Karloff went on to become the enduring and iconic face of ...

Makeup in cinema is much more than brushstrokes and tubes of foundation. It is an art that has shaped the history of the 7th ...

Boris Karloff sits for adjustments to his mask while prepping to film 1953 spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Dr ... and make-up artist Jack Kevan, to show the character’s transformation from man ...

9.THE SORCERORS. Boris Karloff was 80 in 1967 when he starred in THE SORCERORS, his last film shot in his native land of England. The story, adapted from John Burke’s novel, follows an aging couple, ...

Boris Karloff may have created two of cinema’s greatest horror film ghouls -- the Frankenstein monster and The Mummy -- but in real life, he didn’t even like to use the word horror.

Now, as a tie-in with the third installment of Brendan Frasier‘s “Mummy” series, Universal is giving the 1932 “Mummy” the special-edition treatment, with many bonus features to unwrap ...

Actor Boris Karloff sits as studio make-up chief Bud Westmore, right, and make-up artist Jack Kevan start to encase his head in a rubber mask for his Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde role in "Abbott and ...

As much as we love his tender, terrifying monster, Boris Karloff's career did not begin and end with Frankenstein. His daughter Sara is appearing at Larry. Skip to main content.

At the Children’s Hospital, British actor Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt, 1887 – 1969) reads to a young patient as she drinks a glass of milk, Brooklyn, New York, New York, 1948.