Boris Karloff
Targets (1968)
Targets is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, produced by Roger Corman, and written by Polly Platt and Bogdanovich, with cinematography by László Kovács Based on Charles Whitman.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Warner Oland•Earle Williams
Mad Monster Party (1967)
Mad Monster Party? is a 1967 American stop-motion animated musical comedy film produced by Rankin/Bass Productions for Embassy Pictures. The film stars the voices of Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, and Phyllis Diller. It tells the story of a mad scientist who achieves the secret of total destruction as he summons all the monsters to his i...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Lewis Stone•Jack Holt
Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Die, Monster, Die! is a 1965 science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson and Suzan Farmer. A loose adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space", its plot follows an American man who, while visiting his English fiancee's familial estate, uncovers a series of bizarre ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Nigel De Brulier•Charles Meredith
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Joe E. Brown in his final film appearance. It is a blend of comedy and horror which features several cast members from Tales of Terror, made by AIP the year befor...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Nick Adams•Victor McLaglen
The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Joe E. Brown in his final film appearance. It is a blend of comedy and horror which features several cast members from Tales of Terror, made by AIP the year befor...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•George Arliss•Nick Adams•Victor McLaglen
The Raven (1963)
The Raven is a 1963 American comedy gothic horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers. The supporting cast includes Jack Nicholson as the son of Lorre's character.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Nick Adams•Victor McLaglen
The Terror (1963)
The Terror is a 1963 American independent horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, the latter of whom portrays a French officer who is seduced by a woman who is also a shapeshifting devil.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Bela Lugosi
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Corridors of Blood is a 1958 British-American period drama film directed by Robert Day and starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. The original music score was composed by Buxton Orr. It was released in England in 1958.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Grant Withers
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Frankenstein 1970 is a 1958 science fiction/horror film, shot in black and white CinemaScope, starring Boris Karloff and featuring Don "Red" Barry. The independent film was directed by Howard W. Koch, written by Richard Landau and George Worthing Yates, and produced by Aubrey Schenck. It was released theatrically in some markets on a double feature...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Mae Clarke
Voodoo Island (1957)
Voodoo Island is a 1957 American horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and written by Richard H. Landau. The film stars Boris Karloff, with a cast including Elisha Cook Jr., Beverly Tyler and Rhodes Reason. It is set in the South Pacific and was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii back to back with Jungle Heat. Adam West appears in a small pre-"Batman" uncr...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Norman Foster
Sabaka (1955)
Sabaka is a 1953 American adventure film written, directed and co-produced by Frank Ferrin, filmed partially on location in India. The film also starred Victor Jory, Boris Karloff, Peter Coe, Reginald Denny, June Foray and Jay Novello.
Starring: Colin Clive•Nancy Hsueh
Sabaka (1954)
Sabaka is a 1953 American adventure film written, directed and co-produced by Frank Ferrin, filmed partially on location in India. The film also starred Victor Jory, Boris Karloff, Peter Coe, Reginald Denny, June Foray and Jay Novello.
Starring: Colin Clive•Nancy Hsueh•Constance Cummings
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1953 American horror comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, co-starring Boris Karloff, and directed by Charles Lamont.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Frederick Kerr
The Black Castle (1952)
The Black Castle is a 1952 American horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Rita Corday and Lon Chaney Jr. It was produced by William Alland. The film was made in the United States but premiered in Sweden.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Wallace Ford•Zita Johann
The Strange Door (1951)
The Strange Door is a 1951 American horror film, released by Universal Pictures, and starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest and Richard Stapley. Karloff's role is actually a supporting one but his name carried significant weight in the billing. The picture was directed by Joseph Pevney and was based on the short story "The Sire de ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Charles Laughton•Margaret Lindsay
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Frances Drake•Lon Chaney Jr.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is a 1947 thriller film starring Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, and Anne Gwynne. The film is the fourth and final installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Edmund Gwenn•Elsa Lanchester
Lured (1947)
Lured is a 1947 film noir directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, and Boris Karloff. The film is a remake of 1939 French film Pièges directed by Robert Siodmak, which was titled Personal Column in the United States; Personal Column was also the title of this film when it was originally released. It did no...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Helen Parrish•Lucille Ball
Bedlam (1946)
Bedlam is a 1946 American horror film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's 1732–1734 painting series A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Keye Luke
The Body Snatcher (1945)
The Body Snatcher is a 1945 American horror film directed by Robert Wise, based on the 1884 short story of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. Philip MacDonald adapted the story for the screen, and producer Val Lewton, credited as "Carlos Keith", modified MacDonald's screenplay. The film stars Boris Karloff as John Gray, a cab driver who moonl...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges
Isle of the Dead (1945)
Isle of the Dead is a 1945 horror film directed by Mark Robson and made for RKO Radio Pictures by producer Val Lewton. The film's script was inspired by the painting Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled Camilla during production. It was written by frequent Lewton collabora...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Jean Rogers
The Climax (1944)
The Climax is a horror film produced by Universal Pictures, first released in the United States in 1944. The credits state this is based on the 1909 play of the same name by Edward Locke, although the plot has little connection to Locke's play. Originally intended to be a sequel to Universal's remake of the Phantom of the Opera (1943), it featured ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Alan Baxter
House of Frankenstein (1944)
House of Frankenstein is a 1944 American horror film starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine. The film was directed by Erle C. Kenton based on a story by Curt Siodmak, and produced by Universal Pictures. The film is about Dr. Gustav Niemann who escapes from prison and promises to create a new body for his assistant Daniel. The two...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Ralph Byrd•Barbara O'Neil•Richard Greene
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
The Boogie Man Will Get You is a 1942 American comedy horror film directed by Lew Landers and starring Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. It was the final film Karloff made under his contract with Columbia Pictures, and it was filmed in the wake of his success in the 1941 Broadway production Arsenic and Old Lace. As he had done several times previously...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh
The Devil Commands (1941)
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff. The working title of the film was The Devil Said No. In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a m...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh
The Ape (1940)
The Ape is a 1940 American horror film directed by William Nigh. The film is based on Adam Hull Shirk's play The Ape, which was previously adapted by Nigh as The House of Mystery (1934). The film stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Bernard Adrian who is seeking to cure a young woman's polio through experiments involving spinal fluid. Meanwhile, a vicious ap...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Evelyn Keyes•James Stephenson
Before I Hang (1940)
Before I Hang is a 1940 American horror film released by Columbia Pictures, starring Boris Karloff. The film was directed by Nick Grinde and was one of several films Karloff starred in under contract with Columbia.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Kay Kyser•Maris Wrixon
Black Friday (1940)
Black Friday is a 1940 American horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges•Bruce Lester
British Intelligence (1940)
British Intelligence is a 1940 spy film set in World War I. It was directed by Terry O. Morse and stars Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay. The film, also known as Enemy Agent, was released in the United States in January 1940. The Warner Bros. B picture was based on a 1918 play Three Faces East written by Anthony Paul Kelly and produced on the sta...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Jo Ann Sayers•Abbott and Costello
Doomed to Die (1940)
Doomed to Die is a 1940 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong with Marjorie Reynolds and Grant Withers. It is a sequel to the 1940 film, The Fatal Hour, which also featured Withers and Reynolds.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Bud Abbott•Lou Costello
The Fatal Hour (1940)
The Fatal Hour is a 1940 American thriller crime drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, and Marjorie Reynolds.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Bud Abbott•Lou Costello
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
The Man with Nine Lives is a 1940 American horror science fiction film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Boris Karloff.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Sally Forrest•Betta St. John
You'll Find Out (1940)
You'll Find Out is a 1940 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Kay Kyser. In 1940, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 13th Academy Awards. In the film, members of an orchestra hired to play at a young heiress's birthday party uncover a plot against her. The film was very popular and made ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Nick Adams•Jean Engstrom•Jack Nicholson•Suzan Farmer
Devil's Island (1939)
Devil's Island is a 1939 American prison film directed by William Clemens and starring Boris Karloff. This film is notable for Karloff in a then-rare sympathetic role, as opposed to his usual antagonistic characters in horror films. The plot appears to have been recycled from John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island, which depicted the true story o...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Allen Swift
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1939 American horror film directed by Nick Grinde from a screenplay by Karl Brown. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Henryk Savaard, a scientist who develops a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. When he is arrested and sentenced to be executed for murdering a young medical student who volunteered to be killed...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown is a 1939 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Bud Abbott•Lou Costello
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
The Mystery of Mr. Wong is a 1939 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Bud Abbott•John Barrymore
The Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 American horror film that was directed by Rowland V. Lee and stars Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' Frankenstein series and is the follow-up to the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein. Son of Frankenstein stars Rathbone as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein who, with his ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges
Tower of London (1939)
Tower of London is a 1939 black-and-white historical film directed and produced by Rowland V. Lee. It stars Basil Rathbone as the future King Richard III of England, and Boris Karloff as his fictitious club-footed executioner Mord. The film is based on the traditional depiction of Richard rising to become King of England in 1483 by eliminating ever...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•George Arliss•Warner Oland
The Invisible Menace (1938)
The Invisible Menace is a 1938 American mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff. It was also known as Without Warning.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Earle Williams
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Mr. Wong, Detective is a 1938 American crime film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff in his first appearance as Mr. Wong.
Starring: Lewis Stone•Nancy Hsueh•Bud Abbott
Night Key (1937)
Night Key is a science fiction crime film starring Boris Karloff and released by Universal Pictures in 1937.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Jack Holt•Evelyn Brent
West of Shanghai (1937)
West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. It is based on the 1920 Porter Emerson Browne play The Bad Man. Three other films, all titled The Bad Man, are also based on the same play:in 1923, directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Holbrook Blinn in 1930, directed by Clar...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•George Arliss•Charles Meredith
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Opera is considered by many to be the best Warner Oland Charlie Chan film, probably due to the presence of Boris Karloff as the principal suspect, as well as faux operatic music composed by Oscar Levant. This is the 13th film starring Oland as Chan; it was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for 20th Century-Fox in 1936.
Starring: Betty Ross Clarke•Nancy Hsueh•Virginia Brown Faire
The Invisible Ray (1936)
The Invisible Ray is a 1936 American science-fiction horror film directed by Lambert Hillyer. It stars Boris Karloff as Dr. Janos Rukh, a scientist who comes in contact with a meteorite composed of an element known as "Radium X". After exposure to its rays begins to make him glow in the dark, his touch becomes deadly, and he begins to be slowly dri...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges•Teddie Gerard
The Walking Dead (1936)
The Walking Dead is a 1936 American horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff, who plays a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist. The supporting cast features Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, and Barton MacLane. The film was distributed by Warner Bros.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•George Arliss•Dorothy Revier
The Black Room (1935)
The Black Room is a 1935 American horror film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Boris Karloff. Cinematography was done by Allen G. Siegler.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein. The sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Sh...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Charles Delaney•Ricardo Cortez
The Raven (1935)
The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Louis Friedlander and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. Billed as having been "suggested by" Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem of the same title, excerpts of which are quoted at a few points in the film, it was adapted from an original screenplay by David Boehm. Lugosi stars as a neurosurgeon obs...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges•Frank Rice
The Black Cat (1934)
The Black Cat is a 1934 American pre-Code horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. It was Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year, and was the first of eight films to feature both Karloff and Lugosi. In 1941, Lugosi appeared in a comedy horror mystery film with the same title, which was also ...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Stanley Ridges•David Manners
The House of Rothschild (1934)
The House of Rothschild is a 1934 American pre-Code historical drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Arliss, Loretta Young and Boris Karloff. It was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and chronicles the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Dolores del Río•Loretta Young
The Lost Patrol (1934)
The Lost Patrol is a 1934 American pre-Code war film by RKO, directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols from the 1927 novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. Max Steiner provided the Oscar-nominated score. The film, a remake of a 1929 British sil...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Mae Clarke•Walter Huston
Behind the Mask (1932)
Behind the Mask is a 1932 American pre-Code crime/horror film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Jack Holt, Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan.
Starring: Norman Foster•Nancy Hsueh•Zita Johann
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) is an American pre-Code adventure film directed by Charles Brabin. Written by Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allan Woolf and John Willard, it was based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Sax Rohmer. Starring Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu, and featuring Myrna Loy as his depraved daughter, the film revolves around the "Devil Doctor" '...
Starring: Regis Toomey•Nancy Hsueh•Colin Clive
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was adapted from a treatise written by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. Released by Universal Studios as a part of the Universal Classic Monsters franchise, the film stars Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edw...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•David Manners•Constance Cummings
Night World (1932)
Night World is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film featuring Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff. The supporting cast includes George Raft and Hedda Hopper.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Melvyn Douglas•Frederick Kerr
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore. Set in interwar Wales, the film f...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Karen Morley•Charles Laughton
The Criminal Code (1931)
The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The screenplay, based on a 1929 play of the same name by Martin Flavin, was written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Seton I. Miller, who were nominated for Best Adaptation at the 4th Academy Awards but the award wen...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Wallace Ford•Zita Johann
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Fran...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Melvyn Douglas•Irene Ware
Girl of the Rio (1931)
Girl of the Rio is a 1932 American Pre-Code RKO musical film starred Dolores del Río and Leo Carrillo. Directed by Herbert Brenon, the screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan and Louis Stevens, based on the play, The Dove by Willard Mack, which was itself based on a magazine article by Gerald Beaumont. The film is a remake of the 1927 silent fil...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Frances Drake•Edmund Gwenn
Graft (1931)
Graft is a 1931 American pre-Code thriller film, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Regis Toomey and future talent agent Sue Carol, and featuring Boris Karloff, who appeared in Frankenstein during the same year.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Elsa Lanchester•Dorothy Tree
The Mad Genius (1931)
The Mad Genius (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, and in small roles, Boris Karloff and Frankie Darro. The film is based on the play The Idol (1929) by Martin Brown, which opened in Great Nec...
Starring: Keye Luke•Nancy Hsueh•Beverly Roberts
Flaming Fury (1926)
Flaming Fury is a 1926 American drama film directed by James P. Hogan and featuring Boris Karloff. A print of the film exists in the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique.
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Marie Wilson
Dynamite Dan (1924)
Dynamite Dan is a 1924 American drama film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and featuring Kenneth MacDonald and Boris Karloff. The film is about a young dockworker who is framed for a robbery he did not commit by his foreman, gangster Tony Garcia. Prints of this film survive and are available on DVD. Boris Karloff, who plays the gangster, only appears...
Starring: Nancy Hsueh•Jean Rogers
The Man from Downing Street (1922)
The Man from Downing Street is a 1922 American silent starring Earle Williams, Charles Hill Mailes, Betty Ross Clark and Boris Karloff. The screenplay was written by Bradley J. Smollen, based on a screen story by Clyde C. Westover, Lottie Horner and Florine Williams. It is thought to be a lost film.
Starring: Alan Baxter•Barbara O'Neil•Nancy Hsueh
The Cave Girl (1921)
The Cave Girl is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Joseph J. Franz and featuring Teddie Gerard, Charles Meredith, Lillian Tucker and Boris Karloff in an early film role. The source for the William Parker screenplay was the stage play of the same name by George Middleton and Guy Bolton. The film's tagline was "A Romance of Silent Trails ...
Starring: Nigel De Brulier•Charles Meredith•Nancy Hsueh
Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)
Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding and Boris Karloff. It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. A print of the film still exists at the UCLA Film and Television Archives and at Archives Du Film Du CNC.
Starring: Virginia Brown Faire•Teddie Gerard•Nancy Hsueh