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William Henry Pratt left England at age 22 to join a theatrical touring company in Canada, and took on the stage name of Boris Karloff. A decade later he would migrate to Hollywood for his earliest surviving film appearance in the 1919 serial, The Masked Rider</i>. He began to appear in other cliffhangers including The Hope Diamond Mystery</i> (1920) and King Of The Wild</i> (193

Karloff Before Frankenstein - (Black & White) - [DVD]

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William Henry Pratt left England at age 22 to join a theatrical touring company in Canada, and took on the stage name of Boris Karloff. A decade later he would migrate to Hollywood for his earliest surviving film appearance in the 1919 serial, The Masked Rider</i>. He began to appear in other cliffhangers including The Hope Diamond Mystery</i> (1920) and King Of The Wild</i> (1930) often cast as the exotic evil-doer. He portrays a half breed fur trader in 1929's Phantoms of the North</i>, included in this collection. With the introduction of sound, he found substantial supporting parts such as the henchman with the British accent, as seen here in The Utah Kid</i>. This is a truly lost film mastered from the only known existing print. The following year he would rise to international super stardom and Hollywood legend, in James Whale's 1931 horror classic, Frankenstein</i>.<p>The Utah Kid</i> (1930, B&W):</b> Stars Rex Lease, Boris Karloff, Dorothy Sebastion, Lafe McKee; Directed by Richard Thorpe. Tiffany Productions.<p>Phantoms of the North</i> (1929, B&W):</b> Stars Donald Keith, Boris Karloff, Joe Bonomo; Directed by Harry Webb. Biltmore Productions. Complete surviving footage of this rare film!</i><p>Frankenstein</i> Trailer:</b> Realart reissue, 1948

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