Universal Horror Films
The original series of six installments, starring iconic horror actors Boris Karloff in the original only as Imhotep with Lon Chaney Jr. and Tom Tyler as Kharis and lastly Eddie Parker who played Klaris, a cousin of Kharis.
| Film | Year | The Mummy |
| The Mummy | 1932 | Boris Karloff |
| The Mummy's Hand | 1940 | Tom Tyler |
| The Mummy's Tomb | 1942 | Lon Chaney, Jr. |
| The Mummy's Ghost | 1944 | Lon Chaney, Jr. |
| The Mummy's Curse | 1944 | Lon Chaney, Jr. |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | 1955 | Eddie Parker |
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Famous quotes containing the words universal, horror and/or films:
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I can’t talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it’s a horror to look back on. I can’t imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn’t even refer to the place by name. “Out there,” I called it.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)