Twice. By John Otis One of the actor Boris Karloff’s most lauded roles was his humanizing portrayal of a horror film progenitor: Frankenstein’s monster, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.

Pratt, better known to the world as Boris Karloff—and best known as the Frankenstein monster—died Sunday in London in King Edward VII Hospital of a respiratory ailment. He was 81. Though he ...

The romantic outsiders of the 1930s, like the sympathetic Boris Karloff in James Whales' masterpieces Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, lost their power as the color era began.