Dwight Frye
출생 : 1899-02-22, Salina, Kansas, USA
사망 : 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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(archive footage)
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Haldine (uncredited)
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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
18년이라는 긴 시간동안 미국의 큰 회사에서 일 하다가 형의 죽음으로 인하여 아버지의 영토를 물려받으러 돌아온 래리 탈봇. 돌아온 도시에서 탈봇은 어여쁜 처녀, 그웬을 만나고, 그웬으로부터 늑대인간에 대한 이야기를 듣게 된다. 그웬에게 끈질긴 데이트 신청 후 얻어낸 것은 함께 집시에게 점을 보러 가는 것. 그웬은 친구인 제니와 동행하고, 제니는 그 날밤 늑대인간의 공격을 받는다. 래리는 위험에 빠진 제니를 도와 늑대를 은지팡이로 때려서 죽이지만, 가슴에 커다란 상처를 얻게된다. 그 후 조용했던 도시에 이어지는 살인사건으로 탈봇가의 커다란 명예는 바닥으로 떨어지고, 래리는 늑대인간에게 물려 자기 자신이 늑대인간이 된 것을 깨닫는다. 모든 살인이 늑대인간 래리의 소행이라는 것을 알게 된 도시 경찰들은 래리를 죽이려하고, 가문의 명예를 회복하려는 탈봇시장은 래리를 숨기지만, 늑대인간으로 변신한 래리는 빠져나와 자신의 다음 피해자인 그웬을 죽이려든다. 이 때 탈봇시장은 그웬을 죽이려드는 래리의 은지팡으로 래리를 때려서 죽이면서 가문의 명예를 다시 찾게 된다.
Villager at Meeting / Grave Robber (flashback) (uncredited)
괴물의 창조자 프랑켄슈타인박사의 또다른 아들인 루드빅 프랑켄슈타인을 찾아 괴물을 데리고 '바사리아'로 찾아온 이고. 괴물에게 새로운 뇌를 이식시켜 좋은 성품과 인격을 부여하고자 하는 루드빅 프랑켄슈타인박사의 계획에 이고는 슬며시 계락을 꾸미는데...
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
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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)
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
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
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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
과거 1600년대 루이 13세는 아들이 생기며 그의 온 국민들과 좋은 시간을 보내고 있었다. 같은 시각 왕에겐 또 한 명의 아들이 생기면서 문제가 생긴다. 그의 신하 콜베트경은 분쟁을 피하기 위해 총사대장인 달타냥에게 2번 째 아들을 키우게 왕에게 제안한다. 왕은 그의 제안을 받아 드려 그 아이에게 필립이라 이름을 지어주고 달타냥은 그의 고향인 가스코뉴로 향한다. 20년 후 루이 14세는 그의 신하 푸케경의 계획에 따라 온 갓 세금을 올리고 국민들의 생활은 점점 힘들어져만 간다. 왕은 스페인의 공주 마리아 테레사 공주와의 약혼식을 앞두고 가스코뉴에 납세를 거부하는 반역자들이 있다는 소식을 접하고 그들을 체포하란 명령을 내린다. 다음날 왕은 대성당으로 하는 중 암살을 계획하는 자들이 있다는 소식도 접한다. 왕의 명령으로 체포된 자들은 달타냥의 총사들의 필립. 왕은 필립을 보고서 놀람을 감추지 못하고 그를 대성당으로 보내 죽음을 피할 계획을 세운다.
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
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
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)
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
Hysterical patient
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
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
프랑켄슈타인 박사는 오랜 시간의 연구 끝에 그의 두번째 창조물로 아름다운 여인을 만들어 낸다. 첫번째 창조물인 빅터와, 두번째 창조물인 젊고 아름다운 에바는 모두 인간 신체의 각 부분들을 프랑켄슈타인 박사가 조합해 새로운 생명체로 만드는 과정을 거쳐 탄생했다.어느날, 프랑켄슈타인 박사의 집과 연구실에 불이 나고 폭풍우가 치면서 그들의 거처가 파괴되는 사건이 발생한다. 빅터는 혼자 힘으로 트랜실베니아로 가서 살기 시작하고, 에바는 프랑켄슈타인 박사의 인도 아래 그와 함께 살게 된다. 프랑켄슈타인은 세상에 대해 아무것도 모르는 에바를 교육시키면서 마치 상류계급의 젊고 매력적인 숙녀처럼 만들어 나가는데...
Reporter (uncredited)
투명인간이 되는 약을 발명한 정체불명 의사 역을 열연한 클라우드 레인즈가 주목했던 그의 데뷔작이다. 칭칭 감은 붕대와 썬글라스로 얼굴을 가린 채, 영국의 한 작은 마을에 도착한 레인즈는 자신의 놀라운 발명 사실을 숨기려 하지만, 그 약은 점차 그를 끔찍한 범행을 저지르도록 몰아간다.
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
When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl Brettschneider remains skeptical, scientist Dr. Otto von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop.
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
야심에 가득 찬 젊은 과학자 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 곱추인 조수 ‘프리츠’와 함께 시체의 신체부위들을 절단해 괴물 인조인간을 만드는 실험을 계속한다. 한편, 프랑켄슈타인의 약혼녀인 ‘엘리자베스’는 약혼자가 시계탑 안에서 하고 있는 이상한 실험에 대해 불안해 하다, 실험을 막기 위해 의대 교수인 발드만 박사와 함께 시계탑을 찾아간다. 하지만 그녀가 도착했을 때, 번개를 맞은 괴물이 생명을 얻게 된다. 약혼녀의 설득에, 프랑켄슈타인은 괴물을 시계탑 속에 가두고, 약혼녀에게 돌아간다. 한편, 범죄자의 뇌가 이식된 괴물은 증오와 살인 욕구에 불타올라 조수인 프리츠를 살해한 후 마을을 찾아간다. 괴물의 위협이 커져가자 마을 사람들과 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 괴물을 쫓기 시작한다. 그리고 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 괴물과 낡은 풍차에서 마주친다. 두 사람의 대결에서 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 간신히 목숨을 건지지만, 마을 사람들은 프랑켄슈타인이 갇힌 풍차에 불을 지른다
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)
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula drives Renfield mad and commands obedience. Renfield escorts the boxed count on a death ship to London. From there, the Count is introduced into the society of his neighbor, Dr. Seward, who runs an asylum. Dracula makes short work of family friend Lucia Weston, then begins his assault on Eva Seward, the doctor's daughter. A visiting expert in the occult, Van Helsing, recognizes Dracula for who he is, and there begins a battle for Eva's body and soul.
Renfield
동유럽의 카르파티아 산중에 드라큘라 백작이 살고 있다. 런던에 있는 카팩스 수도원 양도 문제 때문에 그를 찾아가는 한 신사에게, 마을 사람들은 드라큘라가 흡혈귀라며 위험하니 가지 말라고 극구 말린다. 하지만 렌필드가 약속 때문에 가야 한다고 단호히 말하자, 한 노파가 그를 보호해줄 물건이라며 십자가를 쥐어준다. 겁도 없이 험난한 산길을 타고 허름하고 음산한 고성에 당도한 렌필드는 백작이 건네준 술을 마시고 정신을 잃는다. 드라큘라에게 피를 빨린 렌필드는 그에게 맹목적으로 복종하는 노예가 되어 함께 배를 타고 런던으로 향한다. 도중에 폭풍우를 만나 배는 난파되고 선원들은 모두 죽는다. 유일한 생존자 렌필드는 정신착란 상태로 발견돼 시워드 정신병원에 수감된다. 시워드 박사와 이웃이 된 드라큘라는 다음 희생타자로 박사의 딸 미나에게 눈독을 들인다. 시워드는 갑자기 쇠약해진 딸의 건강을 염려해 그 방면의 전문가인 홀란드의 밴 헬싱 교수를 초청해 도움을 청한다. 한편 미나의 친구인 루시가 원인 모를 과다출혈로 사망하고, 아이들이 습격을 당해 목을 물리는 사건이 발생한다. 최근 미나의 목에 생긴 자국과, 렌필드가 특정 약초에 대해 민감하게 반응하는 점, 그리고 드라큘라의 반영이 거울에 나타나지 않는 것과, 박쥐와 늑대의 출현 등을 종합해 미루어 헬싱은 백작의 정체를 의심하고 뱀파이어를 물리치기 위해 대책을 세운다. 미나의 약혼자 존 하커는 흡혈귀란 단지 허구 속 인물이라며 교수의 말을 웃어넘긴다. 그러다 정신병원을 탈출해 몰래 수도원으로 가는 렌필드를 뒤따라간 하커는 미나의 비명소리를 듣게 되는데... 순간 해가 떠오르고, 낮 동안 휴식을 취하고자 관 속으로 들어간 드라큘라를 찾아낸 교수는 심장에 말뚝을 박음으로써 그를 영구히 처치한다.
Vint Glade
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
Monk, Gangster
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Theatre Audience Spectator
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
Balcony Heckler (uncredited)
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.
