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   Who was Boris Karloff?

   • He was the thing that made me, that lifted me from wherever I was to wherever I’ve gotten,” said William Henry Pratt a decade ago. 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.

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   Did Boris Karloff change his name?

   • Beginning in 1940, Karloff dressed as Father Christmas every Christmas to hand out presents to physically disabled children in a Baltimore hospital. He never legally changed his name to "Boris Karloff". He signed official documents "William H. Pratt, a.k.a. Boris Karloff".

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   What did Karloff do in his private life?

   • Despite more than 130 film roles including monsters, revived Egyptian mummies, zombies and mad scientists from the test tube days to the computer era, Karloff in his private life was a soft-spoken, lisping, quiet man fond of reading poetry and puttering in his garden.

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   Who was Karloff in 'the old dark house'?

   • Karloff was reunited with Whale at Universal for The Old Dark House (1932), a horror film based on the novel Benighted by J. B. Priestley, in which he finally enjoyed top billing above Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart; he was billed simply as "KARLOFF", a custom that Universal continued for several years.

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2. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 2212Boris Karloff (1887-1969) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   23 Nov 1887. Camberwell, London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England. Death. 2 Feb 1969 (aged 81) Midhurst, Chichester District, West Sussex, England. Burial. Guildford Crematorium. Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England Add to Map. Plot. Garden of Remembrance, his name is on a marker under a rose bush.

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   Boris Karloff. William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff ( / ˈkɑːrlɒf /) and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was an English actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film Frankenstein (1931), his 82nd film, established him as a horror icon, and he ...

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   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.

7. www.ancestry.com › genealogy › recordsBoris Karloff, b.1887 d.1969 - Ancestry®

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   found in UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current. Boris Karloff. found in 1940 United States Federal Census. Boris Karloff. found in Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963. Boris Karloff. found in 1891 England Census. View more historical records for Boris Karloff.