Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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1916 | The Dumb Girl of Portici | Lois Weber | Credited as an extra. | |
1918 | The Lightning Raider | George B. Seitz | 15-chapter film serial. | |
1919 | The Masked Rider | Aubrey M. Kennedy | 15-chapter film serial. | |
His Majesty, the American | Joseph Henabery | Credited as an extra. | ||
The Prince and Betty | Robert Thornby | Bit part. | ||
1920 | The Deadlier Sex | Jules Borney | Robert Thornby | |
The Courage of Marge O'Doone | Tavish | David Smith | ||
The Last of the Mohicans | Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown | Credited as an extra. | ||
1921 | The Hope Diamond Mystery | Priest of Kama-Sita / Dakar | Stuart Paton | Film serial. |
Without Benefit of Clergy | Ahmed Khan | James Young | ||
Cheated Hearts | Nil Horned | Hobart Henley | ||
The Cave Girl | Baptiste | Joseph Franz | ||
1922 | The Man from Downing Street | Edward Monckton / Maharajah Jehan Deharwar | Edward José | |
The Infidel | the Nabob | James Young | ||
The Altar Stairs | Hugo | Lambert Hillyer | ||
1923 | Omar the Tentmaker | the Holy Imam Mowaffak | James Young | |
The Woman Conquers | Raoul Maris | Tom Forman | ||
The Gentleman from America | Edward Sedgwick | Uncredited Bit part. | ||
The Prisoner | Prince Kapolski | Jack Conway | ||
1924 | Riders of the Plains | Jacques Jaccard | ||
The Hellion | Outlaw | Bruce Mitchell | ||
Dynamite Dan | Tony Garcia | Bruce Mitchell | ||
1925 | Parisian Nights | Pierre | Alfred Santell | |
Forbidden Cargo | Pietro Castillano | Tom Buckingham | ||
The Prairie Wife | Diego | Hugo Ballin | ||
Perils of the Wild | Francis Ford | |||
Never the Twain Shall Meet | Villain | Maurice Tourneur | ||
Lady Robinhood | Cabraza | Ralph Ince | ||
1926 | The Greater Glory | the Scissors Grinder | Curt Rehfeld | |
Her Honor, the Governor | Snipe Collins | Chet Withey | ||
The Bells | Mesmerist | James Young | ||
The Nickel-Hopper | Big Bohunk | Hal Yates | ||
The Golden Web | Dave Sinclair | Walter Lang | ||
The Eagle of the Sea | Pirate | Frank Lloyd | ||
Flames | Blackie Blanchett | Lewis H. Moomaw | ||
Old Ironsides | Saracen Guard | James Cruze | ||
Flaming Fury | Gaspard | James Hogan | ||
Valencia | Dimitri Buchowetzki | Uncredited Bit part. | ||
The Man in the Saddle | Robber | Clifford S. Smith | Uncredited. | |
1927 | Tarzan and the Golden Lion | Ozawa, Waziri Chief | J. P. McGowan | |
Let It Rain | the Crooks | Edward Francis Cline | ||
The Meddlin' Stranger | Al Meggs | Richard Thorpe | ||
The Princess from Hoboken | Pavel | Allan Dale | ||
The Phantom Buster | Ramón | William Bertram | ||
Soft Cushions | The Chief Conspirator | Edward Francis Cline | ||
Two Arabian Knights | Purser | Lewis Milestone | ||
The Love Mart | Fleming | George Fitzmaurice | ||
1928 | The Vanishing Rider | The Villain | Ray Taylor | Film serial |
Burning the Wind | Pug Doran | Henry MacRae, Herbert Blaché | ||
Vultures of the Sea | Grouchy | Richard Thorpe | Film serial | |
The Little Wild Girl | Maurice Kent | Frank Mattison | ||
1929 | The Devil's Chaplain | Boris | Duke Worne | |
The Fatal Warning | Mullins | Richard Thorpe | Film serial | |
The Phantom of the North | Jules Gregg | Harry S. Webb | ||
Two Sisters | Cecil | Scott Pembroke | ||
Anne Against the World | Duke Worne | Bit part. | ||
Behind That Curtain | Sudanese servant | Irving Cummings | First sound film. | |
The King of the Kongo | Macklin / Martin | Richard Thorpe | Film serial. | |
The Unholy Night | Abdoul | Lionel Barrymore | ||
1930 | The Bad One | Guard | George Fitzmaurice | |
The Sea Bat | Corsican | Wesley Ruggles | ||
The Utah Kid | Baxter | Richard Thorpe | ||
The Mother's Cry | Baxter | Hobart Henley | ||
1931 | Sous les verrous ("Pardon Us" - French version) | The Tiger | James Parrott | |
The Criminal Code | Ned Galloway | Howard Hawks | ||
King of the Wild | Mustapha | B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe | Final film serial. | |
Cracked Nuts | Revolutionary | Edward F. Cline | ||
Young Donovan's Kid | Cokey Joe | Fred Niblo | ||
Smart Money | Sport Williams | Alfred E. Green | ||
The Public Defender | Professor | J. Walter Ruben | ||
I Like Your Nerve | Luigi | William McGann | ||
Graft | Joe Terry | William Christy Cabanne | ||
Five Star Final | "Reverend" Vernon Isopod | Mervyn LeRoy | ||
The Yellow Ticket | Orderly | Raoul Walsh | ||
The Mad Genius | Fedor's Father | Michael Curtiz | ||
The Guilty Generation | Tony Ricca | Rowland V. Lee | ||
Frankenstein | The Monster | James Whale | ||
Tonight or Never | The Waiter | Mervyn LeRoy | ||
1932 | Behind the Mask | Jim Henderson | John Francis Dillon | |
Alias the Doctor | Autopsy Surgeon | Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | ||
Business and Pleasure | Sheikh | David Butler | ||
Scarface | Gaffney | Howard Hawks | ||
The Miracle Man | Nikko | Norman Z. McLeod | ||
Night World | "Happy" MacDonald | Hobart Henley | ||
The Old Dark House | Morgan | James Whale | ||
The Mask of Fu Manchu | Dr. Fu Manchu | Charles J. Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor | ||
The Mummy | Imhotep/Ardath Bey | Karl Freund | ||
1933 | The Ghoul | Prof. Morlant | T. Hayes Hunter | |
1934 | The Lost Patrol | Sanders | John Ford | |
The House of Rothschild | Count Ledrantz | Alfred L. Werker | ||
The Black Cat | Hjalmar Poelzig | Edgar G. Ulmer | ||
Gift of Gab | Cameo Appearance (as Karloff) | Karl W. Freund | ||
1935 | Bride of Frankenstein | The Monster | James Whale | |
The Raven | Edmond Bateman | Lew Landers | ||
The Black Room | Baron Gregor de Berghmann / Anton de Berghmann | Roy William Neill | ||
1936 | The Invisible Ray | Dr. Janos Rukh | Lambert Hillyer | |
The Walking Dead | John Ellman | Michael Curtiz | ||
Juggernaut | Victor Sartorius | Michael Curtiz | ||
The Man Who Changed His Mind | Dr. Laurence | Robert Stevenson | ||
Charlie Chan at the Opera | Gravelle | H. Bruce Humberstone | ||
1937 | Night Key | Dave Mallory | Lloyd Corrigan | |
West of Shanghai | Gen. Wu Yen Fang | John Farrow | ||
1938 | The Invisible Menace | Dave Mallory | Lloyd Corrigan | |
Mr. Wong, Detective | James Lee Wong | William Nigh | ||
1939 | Devil's Island | Dr. Charles Gaudet | William Nigh | |
Son of Frankenstein | The Monster | Rowland V. Lee | ||
The Mystery of Mr. Wong | James Lee Wong | William Nigh | ||
Mr. Wong in Chinatown | James Lee Wong | William Nigh | ||
The Man They Could Not Hang | Dr. Henryk Savaard | Nick Grinde | ||
Tower of London | Mord the Executioner | Rowland V. Lee | ||
1940 | The Fatal Hour | James Lee Wong | William Nigh | |
British Intelligence | Valdar | Terrell O. Morse | ||
Black Friday | Dr. Ernest Sovac | Arthur Lubin | ||
The Man with Nine Lives | Dr. Leon Kravaal | Nick Grinde | ||
Doomed to Die | James Lee Wong | William Nigh | ||
Before I Hang | Dr. John Garth | Nick Grinde | ||
The Ape | Dr. Bernard Adrian | William Nigh | ||
You'll Find Out | Judge Mainwaring | David Butler | ||
1941 | The Devil Commands | Dr. Julian Blair | Edward Dmytryk | |
1942 | The Boogie Man Will Get You | Prof. Nathaniel Billings | Lew Landers | |
1944 | The Climax | Dr. Hohner | George Waggner | |
House of Frankenstein | Dr. Gustav Niemann | Erle C. Kenton | ||
1945 | The Body Snatcher | John Gray | Robert Wise | |
Isle of the Dead | Gen. Nikolas Pherides | Mark Robson | ||
1946 | Bedlam | Master George Sims | Mark Robson | |
1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Dr. Hugo Hollingshead | Norman Z. McLeod | |
Lured | Charles von Druten | Douglas Sirk | ||
Unconquered | Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas | Cecil B. DeMille | ||
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | Gruesome | John Rawlins | ||
1948 | Tap Roots | Tishomingo | George Marshall | |
The Emperor's Nightingale | Narrator | Jiří Trnka | English-language version only. | |
1949 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Swami Talpur | Charles Barton | |
1951 | The Strange Door | Voltan | Joseph Pevney | |
1952 | Colonel March Investigates | Col. March | Cy Raker Endfield | Compiled from episodes of the television series Colonel March of Scotland Yard |
The Black Castle | Dr. Meissen | Nathan Juran | ||
1953 | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | Charles Lamont | |
1954 | The Island Monster | Roberto Bianchi Montero | ||
The Hindu | General Pollegar | Frank Ferrin | ||
1957 | Voodoo Island | Dr. Phillip Knight | Reginald Le Borg | |
1958 | The Juggler of Our Lady | Narrator | Al Kousel | Animated short |
The Haunted Strangler | James Rankin | Robert Day | ||
Frankenstein 1970 | Baron Victor von Frankenstein | Howard W. Koch | ||
Corridors of Blood | Dr. Thomas Bolton | Robert Day | ||
1963 | Black Sabbath | Gorca | Mario Bava | |
The Terror | Baron Von Leppe | Roger Corman | ||
The Raven | Dr. Scarabus | Roger Corman | ||
1964 | Bikini Beach | Art dealer | William Asher | |
The Comedy of Terrors | Amos Hinchley | Jacques Tourneur | ||
1965 | Die, Monster, Die! (UK: Monster of Terror) |
Nahum Witley | Daniel Haller | |
1966 | The Daydreamer | The Rat | Jules Bass | Voice only |
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | The Corpse | Don Weis | ||
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | The Grinch and the Narrator | Chuck Jones | Animated film. | |
1967 | The Venetian Affair | Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud | Jerry Thorpe | |
Mad Monster Party? | Baron Boris von Frankenstein | Jules Bass | Voice only | |
The Sorcerers | Professor Marcus Montserrat | Michael Reeves | ||
1968 | Targets | Byron Orlok | Peter Bogdanovich | |
Curse of the Crimson Altar | Prof. Marshe | Vernon Sewell | ||
The Fear Chamber | Dr. Carl Mandel | Juan Ibañez, Jack Hill | ||
House of Evil | Mathias Morteval | Luis Enrique Vergara, Jack Hill | ||
1970 | El Coleccionista de cadáveres aka Blind Man's Bluff | Franz Badulescu | Santos Alcocer, Edward Mann | Released after Karloff's death |
1971 | The Incredible Invasion | Prof. John Meyer | Luis Enrique Vergara, Jack Hill | Released after Karloff's death |
Isle of the Snake People | Karl Van Molder / Damballah | Juan Ibañez, Jack Hill | Released after Karloff's death |
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