Personal Info
Birthday
November 23, 1887
Place of Birth
Camberwell, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Boris Karloff
Biography
William Henry Pratt (November 23, 1887 – February 2, 1969), better known as Boris Karloff, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny". His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch in the television special of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Description above from the Wikipedia article Boris Karloff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting Filmography (256)
0.0
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie2025
7.5
The Last Repair Shop
Movie2024
6.3
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Movie2021
4.7
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Movie2021
No Backdrop
0.0
True Fear: The Making of Psycho
Movie2015
No Backdrop
10.0
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
Movie2015
No Backdrop
7.5
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Movie2014
No Backdrop
5.5
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Movie2013
10.0
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
Movie2012
8.4
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
Movie2008
6.3
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
Movie2007
No Backdrop
8.0
Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Movie2007
No Backdrop
9.0
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Movie2007
No Backdrop
7.6
Lugosi: The Dark Prince
Movie2006
7.6
Karloff: The Gentle Monster
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Terror in the Tropics
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
Movie2004
No Backdrop
8.0
The Mesmerist
Movie2003
6.8
The American Nightmare
Movie2000
7.0
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
Movie2000
No Backdrop
3.5
The Many Faces of Dracula
Movie2000
7.7
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
Movie1999
7.3
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Movie1999
7.1
Universal Horror
Movie1998
No Backdrop
8.0
The Universal Story
Movie1996
8.5
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Movie1994
7.2
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Movie1994
10.0
Dracula in the Movies
Movie1992
No Backdrop
0.0
Halloween Monster Bash
Movie1991
No Backdrop
9.5
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie1991
8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Movie1990
0.0
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
Movie1990
5.4
Transylvania Twist
Movie1989
0.0
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie1988
No Backdrop
6.4
Creepy Classics
Movie1987
No Backdrop
9.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie1984
8.3
The Horror of It All
Movie1983
No Backdrop
6.0
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie1982
No Backdrop
0.0
Monsters on the March (and a Pair of Marvels!)
Movie1980
3.4
The Horror Show
Movie1979
6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie1975
6.2
Madhouse
Movie1974
3.6
Alien Terror
Movie1971
3.1
Isle of the Snake People
Movie1971
6.4
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Movie1970
7.2
McCloud
TV Series1970
5.2
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Movie1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
TV Series1968
7.1
Targets
Movie1968
4.4
Fear Chamber
Movie1968
4.0
Macabre Serenade
Movie1968
4.3
Cauldron of Blood
Movie1968
6.7
The Movie Orgy
Movie1968
6.2
The Sorcerers
Movie1967
6.6
Mad Monster Party?
Movie1967
7.5
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Movie1966
4.9
The Venetian Affair
Movie1966
6.9
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV Series1966
5.1
The Daydreamer
Movie1966
5.1
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Movie1966
No Backdrop
10.0
Doom of Dracula
Movie1966
5.6
Die, Monster, Die!
Movie1965
7.6
The Wild Wild West
TV Series1965
6.4
Shindig!
TV Series1964
5.6
Bikini Beach
Movie1964
6.5
The Comedy of Terrors
Movie1964
1.0
Horror!!!
Movie1964
3.4
A Fool's World
Movie1964
7.2
Black Sabbath
Movie1963
5.2
The Terror
Movie1963
6.3
The Raven
Movie1963
0.0
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Movie1962
7.0
Little Lost Robot
Movie1962
5.8
Out of This World
TV Series1962
7.0
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Movie1962
No Backdrop
6.5
Arsenic & Old Lace
Movie1962
0.0
The Storm
Movie1962
No Backdrop
2.0
The Grim Reaper
Movie1961
6.0
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie1961
No Backdrop
0.0
Who Killed Chung Ling Soo?
Movie1960
1.0
The Fatal Impulse
Movie1960
6.7
Route 66
TV Series1960
6.7
Thriller
TV Series1960
6.2
Corridors of Blood
Movie1958
No Backdrop
0.0
Heart of Darkness
Movie1958
5.4
Frankenstein 1970
Movie1958
6.0
Grip of the Strangler
Movie1958
No Backdrop
6.5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV Series1958
7.8
The Veil
TV Series1958
No Backdrop
7.7
The Juggler of Our Lady
Movie1957
No Backdrop
6.2
Suspicion
TV Series1957
No Backdrop
7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
TV Series1957
0.0
The Lark
Movie1957
4.6
Voodoo Island
Movie1957
No Backdrop
0.0
Rendezvous in Black
Movie1956
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV Series1956
No Backdrop
6.5
Telephone Time
TV Series1956
7.5
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
TV Series1956
6.7
This Is Your Life
TV Series1955
No Backdrop
6.0
A Connecticut Yankee
Movie1955
No Backdrop
0.0
Sting of Death
Movie1955
4.6
Sabaka
Movie1955
3.8
Climax!
TV Series1954
3.3
The Island Monster
Movie1954
No Backdrop
6.3
The United States Steel Hour
TV Series1953
6.3
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie1953
No Backdrop
6.3
Colonel March Investigates
Movie1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
TV Series1953
6.4
The Black Castle
Movie1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV Series1951
6.1
The Strange Door
Movie1951
No Backdrop
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV Series1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
TV Series1951
No Backdrop
6.4
Tales of Tomorrow
TV Series1951
7.0
What's My Line?
TV Series1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV Series1950
No Backdrop
6.0
Lights Out
TV Series1949
6.6
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Movie1949
No Backdrop
5.1
Suspense
TV Series1949
5.4
Studio One
TV Series1948
6.9
Tap Roots
Movie1948
6.5
Unconquered
Movie1947
5.5
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Movie1947
6.8
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie1947
6.3
Lured
Movie1947
6.6
Bedlam
Movie1946
6.0
Isle of the Dead
Movie1945
7.0
The Body Snatcher
Movie1945
5.5
The Mummy's Curse
Movie1944
6.1
House of Frankenstein
Movie1944
5.5
The Climax
Movie1944
6.2
The Boogie Man Will Get You
Movie1942
No Backdrop
6.0
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Movie1942
6.3
The Devil Commands
Movie1941
5.6
You'll Find Out
Movie1940
4.8
The Ape
Movie1940
5.7
The Mummy's Hand
Movie1940
6.3
Before I Hang
Movie1940
5.7
Doomed to Die
Movie1940
6.3
The Man with Nine Lives
Movie1940
6.0
Black Friday
Movie1940
5.7
The Fatal Hour
Movie1940
6.1
Tower of London
Movie1939
5.8
British Intelligence
Movie1939
6.7
The Man They Could Not Hang
Movie1939
5.4
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Movie1939
5.9
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Movie1939
6.7
Son of Frankenstein
Movie1939
5.7
Devil's Island
Movie1939
5.6
Mr. Wong, Detective
Movie1938
4.3
The Invisible Menace
Movie1938
No Backdrop
6.0
Breakdowns of 1937
Movie1937
5.8
West of Shanghai
Movie1937
6.2
Night Key
Movie1937
6.8
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Movie1936
6.1
The Man Who Changed His Mind
Movie1936
4.5
Juggernaut
Movie1936
6.3
The Walking Dead
Movie1936
6.4
The Invisible Ray
Movie1936
6.5
The Black Room
Movie1935
6.6
The Raven
Movie1935
7.5
Bride of Frankenstein
Movie1935
5.3
Gift of Gab
Movie1934
6.7
The Black Cat
Movie1934
6.2
The House of Rothschild
Movie1934
6.5
The Lost Patrol
Movie1934
No Backdrop
0.0
Screen Snapshots No. 11
Movie1934
5.6
The Ghoul
Movie1933
6.8
The Mummy
Movie1932
No Backdrop
5.6
Boo
Movie1932
5.4
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Movie1932
6.7
The Old Dark House
Movie1932
5.5
Skyscraper Souls
Movie1932
6.8
Night World
Movie1932
7.4
Scarface
Movie1932
5.9
The Miracle Man
Movie1932
7.0
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Movie1932
5.8
Behind the Mask
Movie1932
6.3
Business and Pleasure
Movie1932
7.5
Frankenstein
Movie1931
6.2
The Guilty Generation
Movie1931
5.1
The Yellow Ticket
Movie1931
6.4
The Mad Genius
Movie1931
6.6
Five Star Final
Movie1931
5.0
Graft
Movie1931
5.9
I Like Your Nerve
Movie1931
6.4
The Public Defender
Movie1931
6.9
Smart Money
Movie1931
10.0
Young Donovan's Kid
Movie1931
8.5
The Vanishing Legion
Movie1931
8.0
Cracked Nuts
Movie1931
4.2
King of the Wild
Movie1931
6.2
Tonight or Never
Movie1931
6.1
The Criminal Code
Movie1931
4.7
The Utah Kid
Movie1930
4.4
The Sea Bat
Movie1930
7.0
The Bad One
Movie1930
5.7
The Unholy Night
Movie1929
8.0
The King of the Kongo
Movie1929
4.2
Behind That Curtain
Movie1929
6.5
Two Sisters
Movie1929
No Backdrop
9.0
The Devil's Chaplain
Movie1929
5.0
The Fatal Warning
Movie1929
10.0
Burning the Wind
Movie1929
10.0
The Little Wild Girl
Movie1928
No Backdrop
9.0
Vultures of the Sea
Movie1928
7.0
The Vanishing Rider
Movie1928
7.0
Sharp Shooters
Movie1928
8.0
The Love Mart
Movie1927
5.8
Two Arabian Knights
Movie1927
7.0
Soft Cushions
Movie1927
8.0
The Phantom Buster
Movie1927
9.0
The Meddlin' Stranger
Movie1927
4.8
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Movie1927
8.0
The Princess from Hoboken
Movie1927
7.0
Let It Rain
Movie1927
6.4
Old Ironsides
Movie1926
10.0
Flaming Fury
Movie1926
7.5
The Nickel-Hopper
Movie1926
10.0
The Eagle of the Sea
Movie1926
10.0
Flames
Movie1926
No Backdrop
10.0
The Golden Web
Movie1926
6.2
The Bells
Movie1926
10.0
Her Honor, the Governor
Movie1926
10.0
The Man in the Saddle
Movie1926
8.0
The Greater Glory
Movie1926
10.0
Without Mercy
Movie1925
4.0
Parisian Nights
Movie1925
6.0
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Movie1925
10.0
Perils of the Wild
Movie1925
9.0
Lady Robinhood
Movie1925
8.0
The Prairie Wife
Movie1925
9.0
Forbidden Cargo
Movie1925
6.0
Dynamite Dan
Movie1924
10.0
Riders of the Plains
Movie1924
8.0
The Hellion
Movie1924
7.0
The White Panther
Movie1924
7.0
The Prisoner
Movie1923
10.0
Omar the Tentmaker
Movie1922
8.0
The Altar Stairs
Movie1922
10.0
The Woman Conquers
Movie1922
10.0
The Man from Downing Street
Movie1922
8.0
The Infidel
Movie1922
10.0
Nan of the North
Movie1922
9.0
The Cave Girl
Movie1921
8.0
Cheated Hearts
Movie1921
9.0
Without Benefit of Clergy
Movie1921
10.0
The Hope Diamond Mystery
Movie1921
6.3
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie1920
8.0
The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Movie1920
No Backdrop
9.0
The Woman and the Puppet
Movie1920
7.5
The Deadlier Sex
Movie1920
No Backdrop
8.3
The Prince and Betty
Movie1919
6.6
His Majesty, the American
Movie1919
9.0
The Lightning Raider
Movie1919
No Backdrop
0.0
Suspense: A Night at an Inn
MovieN/A