Dwight Frye

Dwight Frye

Nascimento : 1899-02-22, Salina, Kansas, USA

Morte : 1943-11-07

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dwight Frye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Filmes

Universal Horror
(archive footage)
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Submarine Alert
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.
Dead Men Walk
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.
Frankenstein Encontra o Lobisomem
Rudi a Vasarian
Lon Chaney Jr., agora um lobisomem, procura o Dr. Frankenstein na esperança de que este o liberte de sua maldição. Ele encontra o cientista morto, mas a sua criatura continua viva e causando o terror.
O Fantasma de Frankenstein
Villager at Meeting / Grave Robber (flashback) (uncredited)
Ygor ressuscita o monstro de Frankenstein e leva-o até o filho do médico original, Ludwig, em busca de ajuda.
Don't Talk
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.
Devil Pays Off
Radio Operator
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Mystery Ship
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.
Flying Blind
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.
The Son of Monte Cristo
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.
Sky Bandits
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?
Phantom Raiders
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.
Gangs of Chicago
Pinky
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Drums of Fu Manchu
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.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Fouquet's Valet
Os Três Mosqueteiros vão resgatar o rei que está preso injustamente pelo seu irmão gêmeo. Luís XIV da França faz artimanhas para manter seu irmão gêmeo Philippe encarcerado em uma máscara de ferro, longe do conhecimento do público, que dava mostras de preferir Philippe como Rei da França. Mas os mosqueteiros e o camarada D’Artagnan se combinam para salvar Philippe.
Aventura no Sahara
Gravet, 'the Jackal'
Agadez é um solitário posto francês assando sob o sol do deserto e comandado pelo cruel e opressivo capitão Savatt (Henry Gordon). Chega, a seu pedido, o Legionário Jim Wilson (Paul Kelly logo seguido por sua noiva, Carla Preston (Lorna Grey), que o localizou de posto em posto. Legionários tomam o forte e libertam Savitt na Arábia Saudita. Deserto assombrado com apenas uma fração da água e da comida necessária para voltar à civilização, mas Savitt passa e retorna ao forte à frente de uma tropa vingadora de homens, mas os árabes cercam Savitt e seus homens, e os amotinados sabem disso. que deixar o forte e ajudá-los significa sua própria morte ...
The Night Hawk
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.
Think It Over
Arsonist
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Fast Company
Sidney Z. Wheeler
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Sinners in Paradise
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.
Invisible Enemy
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.
Luzes da Acusação
Mr. Owen
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
A Sombra Assassina
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.
Something to Sing About
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.
The Man Who Found Himself
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.
Beware Of Ladies
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.
Alibi for Murder
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.
Florida Special
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.
The Great Impersonation
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.
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
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.
Atlantic Adventure
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.
A Noiva de Frankenstein
Karl
O filme começa de onde o original, de 1931, terminou: Frankenstein escapa do cerco ao moinho vivo, enquanto Dr. Frankenstein tem sua noiva sequestrada por outro lunático cientista. O objetivo dele é convencer o doutor a criar uma companheira para o monstro.
O Homem Invisível
Reporter (uncredited)
Um estranho chega em uma pequena localidade com o objetivo de terminar suas pesquisas científicas. Seu nome é Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), que criou uma fórmula que o permitiu tornar-se invisível. Porém, enquanto busca o antídoto, os problemas começam a acontecer quando as pessoas da localidade descobrem sua natureza e forçam sua fuga. Enlouquecido e com a cabeça cheia de planos destrutivos, Jack torna-se uma grande ameaça e põe toda a polícia em seu encalço.
The Circus Queen Murder
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.
The Vampire Bat
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.
A Strange Adventure
Robert Wayne
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
The Western Code
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.
By Whose Hand?
Chick Lewis
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
Attorney for the Defense
James Wallace
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
Frankenstein
Fritz
Henry Frankenstein, um cientista louco, vive obcecado pela ideia de criar um ser, com partes de corpos humanos que vai roubando, e ao qual tenciona dar vida usando a electricidade. O que ele desconhece é que o seu ajudante, o corcunda Fritz, roubou o cérebro de um psicopata para a criatura, que assim se tornará num monstro que usa da violência sem qualquer critério.
O Camelo Preto
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.
O Falcão Maltês
Wilmer Cook
O Detetive Sam Spade e seu parceiro Miles Archer são procurados por uma mulher misteriosa que os contrata para seguir um homem a quem ela acusa de ter fugido com sua irmã. Miles Archer e o homem são assassinados, e a partir daí, Sam Spade, suspeito pelo assassinato de Archer, se vê envolvido com uma série de figuras misteriosas.
Drácula
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.
Drácula
Renfield
Drácula (Bela Lugosi) é um conde vindo dos Cárpatos que aterroriza Londres por carregar uma maldição que o obriga a beber sangue humano para sobreviver. Após transformar uma jovem em vampira, ele concentra suas atenções em uma amiga dela, mas o pai da próxima vítima se chama Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), um cientista holandês especialista em vampiros que pode acabar com seu reinado de terror.
Man to Man
Vint Glade
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
The Doorway to Hell
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.
The Night Bird
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Upstream
Theatre Audience Spectator
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
Exit Smiling
Balcony Heckler (uncredited)
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.