Dwight Frye - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The shock rock group Alice Cooper included a song entitled "Ballad of Dwight Fry" (without the final "e") on their 1971 album Love It to Death. It is sung from the point of view of a character such as the actor might have played. The song and a cameo appearance by Alice Cooper was used in the Tim Burton movie "Dark Shadows"(2012).

• The music company Wind-Up Entertainment Inc. houses one music publishing concern called Renfield Music Publishing, and another called Dwight Frye Music, which publishes artists such as Evanescence and Creed.

• Dwight Frye, along with Helen Chandler, his co-star in the 1931 film Dracula, both appear as characters in Donald Jeffries' 2007 science fiction/fantasy novel The Unreals.

Jello Biafra mentions Dwight Frye in the lyrics to "BUY MY SNAKE OIL" off of the 1994 record with Mojo Nixon titled '''PRAIRIE HOME INVASION. It goes as follows, "...C'mon and buy my snake oil, til my well runs stinking dry. I'll be your Rondo Hatton, I'll be your Dwight Frye..."