Dwight Frye
Nacimiento : 1899-02-22, Salina, Kansas, USA
Muerte : 1943-11-07
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Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.
Frye was born in Salina, Kansas. Nicknamed "The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare," and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths," he specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters, including his signature role, the madman Renfield in Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula. Later that same year he also played the hunchbacked assistant in the film Frankenstein. (This character, named Fritz, is often mistakenly referred to as Ygor, a character originated by Béla Lugosi in the later film Son of Frankenstein.)
Frye had a prominent role in the 1933 horror film The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, and Fay Wray, in which he played Herman, a half-wit suspected of being a killer. He also had a memorable role in the classic Bride of Frankenstein, in which he played Karl. The part of Karl was originally much longer and many extra scenes of Frye were shot as a sub plot but were edited out of the final version to shorten the running time as well as to appease the censor boards. The most memorable of these "cut scenes" was that of Karl killing the Burgomaster portrayed by E. E. Clive. No known prints of these scenes survive today, but photographs of the scene were used to illustrate the scene's synopsis and are included in the recent Universal DVD release of the film.
During the early 1940s, Frye alternated between film roles and appearing on stage in a variety of productions ranging from comedies to musicals, as well as appearing in a stage version of Dracula. In 1924 he played the Son in a translation of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.[1] There was a Dwight Frye Fan Club at one time,[2] but it is currently dormant. He also made a contribution to the war effort by working nights as a tool designer for Lockheed Aircraft. Frye's strong resemblance to former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker helped land him what would have been a substantial role in the biographical film Wilson, based on the life of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, but he died of a heart attack while riding on a bus in Hollywood a few days before filming was to have begun.
Frye was interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Documental sobre el cine de terror de la Universal.
Haldine (uncredited)
Un agente del FBI es despedido de su puesto. En realidad, es una maniobra para que pueda infiltrarse como falso traidor en una red de espías nazis.
Zolarr
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
Rudi a Vasarian
El resucitado Hombre Lobo, buscando una cura para su enfermedad acude en busca de la ayuda del doctor Frankenstein. Cuando llega a su castillo descubre que el Dr. ha muerto a manos del los habitantes del pueblo, y levanta las sospechas de éstos, que comienzan a perseguirlo. En su huida se esconde en las galerías del castillo donde libera del hielo al monstruo de Frankentein.
Villager at Meeting / Grave Robber (flashback) (uncredited)
Otro hijo del viejo Frankenstein (Cedrick Hardwicke) intenta aclarar la verdad sobre el monstruo (Lon Chaney Jr.) y debe lidiar con un ambicioso colega (Lionel Atwill) y con el jorobado Ygor (Bela Lugosi). Ejemplo efectivo de comedia negra, con transplantes de cerebro, un monstruo que trepa a los tejados para bajar el globo de una niña, aparatos de ciencia loca, y una implausible y divertida trama de conquista del mundo por parte de Ygor, en su más alto rango de protagonismo en toda la saga.
Ziggy (uncredited)
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Radio Operator
Chris Waring es un investigador del gobierno que trata de reunir las pruebas necesarias para condenar a un magnate naviero.
Rader
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
Leo Qualen
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Pavlov's Secretary (Uncredited)
La Gran Duquesa se dirige a París para conseguir ayuda de Napoleón. El General Gurko Lanen está intentando hacerse con el control de su país y envía a las tropas tras la Duquesa para evitar que llegue hasta él. Gurko fuerza a La Duquesa a un matrimonio de conveniencia. Ya en el altar, Edmund Dantes reaparece lanzándose sobre Gurko, al no estar de acuerdo con dicho matrimonio.
Speavy
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Eddie Anders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Pinky
Un criminal utiliza sus conocimientos legales para alcanzar sus propósitos, no siempre acordes con la ley, traicionando de paso a sus amigos.
Prof. Anderson
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Fouquet's Valet
Adaptación de la famosa novela de Alexandre Dumas que sigue unas pautas muy similares a la versión rodada diez años antes por Allan Dwan.
Gravet, 'the Jackal'
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
John Colley
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
Arsonist
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Sidney Z. Wheeler
Un matrimonio librero aficionado a las historias detectivescas intenta ayudar a un amigo en aclarar un crimen de un rival también librero
Marshall (uncredited)
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
Alex
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Mr. Owen
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Vindecco
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.
Mr. Easton (makeup supervisor)
Terry Rooney (Cagney), líder de una banda de música de Nueva York, se marcha a Hollywood, donde le han ofrecido un contrato para hacer una película. Allí descubre los entresijos de cómo se moldea a los actores, de cómo se les maneja. Sin embargo, Terry no puede soportarlo y huye con su mujer, Riota. El productor de la película no presta importancia al hecho hasta que la película es estrenada y tiene un éxito absoluto. En poco tiempo, Terry se convierte en una estrella, pero eso también le traerá problemas, sobre todo en el plano personal.
Hysterical patient
El doctor Jim Stanton (John Beal) es un prestigioso cirujano traumatizado por las muertes de un accidente de avión que él pilotaba. Expulsado de su hospital por el escándalo, Jim se marcha a California con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida bajo una nueva identidad. Conoce entonces a Doris (Joan Fontaine), una enfermera que se las ingenia para que Jim maneje durante una urgencia el avión-ambulancia en el que ella trabaja, logrando así demostrarse a si mismo su valía.
Swanson
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
McBride
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Jenkins
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
Roger Unthank (uncredited)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Dr. Thomas
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
Spike Jonas
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Karl
Después de la huida del monstruo creado por el doctor Frankenstein, el siniestro Dr. Praetorius propone al científico la creación de una compañera para el monstruo.
Reporter (uncredited)
Adaptación de una novela de H.G. Wells sobre un hombre que posee la facultad de hacerse invisible.
Flandrin
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Herman Gleib
Una serie de crímenes en el pueblo de Klineschloss, todos ellos con masivas pérdidas de sangre y mordeduras en la garganta, unido a una plaga de murciélagos, hace pensar a las autoridades del pueblo que se encuentran ante la amenaza de un vampiro.
Robert Wayne
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Dick Loomis
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
Chick Lewis
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
James Wallace
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
Fritz
El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su criado Fritz, se adentra durante la noche en los cementerios de la localidad para arrancar a los cadáveres las partes que necesita. Lo que ignora es que el cerebro que ha utilizado en su experimento había pertenecido a un criminal.
Jessop
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.
Wilmer Cook
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Renfield (archive footage) (uncredited)
El conde Drácula cambia su residencia desde los Cárpatos a occidente. Para ello se procura la ayuda del abogado Renfield que le visita para acompañarle en su mudanza como servidor. Una vez instalado, conoce a una joven, ya prometida, de quién se enamora. Comenzará a visitarla por las noches, para ir bebiendo su sangre poco a poco, y convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que contacta con el doctor Van Helsing... Versión alternativa al Drácula de Tod Browning interpretado por Bela Lugosi, que se grabó simultáneamente a la versión de habla inglesa, usando de noche los mismos estudios cuando el equipo de Browning terminaba su jornada diaria de rodaje. Fue el primer y último intento de la Universal de intentar abarcar el mercado hispano.
Renfield
El conde Drácula abandona los Cárpatos y se traslada a Londres, llevándose como sirviente a un contable. Una vez instalado, se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida. Empieza a a visitarla por las noches y va bebiendo su sangre poco a poco para convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que busca la ayuda del doctor Van Helsing.
Vint Glade
Un hijo se avergüenza de su padre porque éste cometió un crimen, pero no puede arrancar de su alma los lazos de amor filial que le unen con quien le dio el ser. Por su parte, su padre negado por su hijo no puede ahogar el sentimiento paterno que le lleva a solidarizarse con él en la desgracia. Los dos hombres que han querido sacrificarse calladamente, uno por el otro, acaban comprendiéndose y perdonándose.
Monk, Gangster
Lou Ricarno es un tipo inteligente: su plan consiste en organizar y liderar a las distintas pandillas de Chicago para que no se liquiden entre sí. Con el éxito del emprendimiento y su liderazgo, Louie prospera, se casa con Doris y se retira a Florida para escribir su autobiografía. Pero, en su ausencia, una guerra entre bandas comienza y le será imposible mantenerse alejado.
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Theatre Audience Spectator
"Upstream" es una comedia ligera puesta en el ambiente teatral que muestra a la gente en los peldaños más bajos del entretenimiento. Centrada en un triángulo amoroso.
Balcony Heckler (uncredited)
Una eterna aspirante a primera actriz, encargada del guardarropa, un joven deslumbrado por las "stars" de Broadway que busca trabajo de lo que sea... Ella le apadrinará para entrar en el teatro de la farándula y esto acarreará mil situaciones complicadas y divertidas. (Eddie Constanti)
