Actor: Colin Clive

Colin Clive played Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, and the delivery of the line about it being alive is among the most imitated in horror. He was a severe alcoholic which the studio worked around, and he died at thirty-seven of tuberculosis complicated by drinking.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) film posterBoris Karloff

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

James Whale's sequel where the resurrected creature demands a mate, leading the doctor back to his laboratory. Bride of Frankenstein is James Whale's 1935 American horror film, sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein, depicting the resurrected Monster's demand that Dr. Henry…

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Frankenstein (1931) film posterBoris Karloff

Frankenstein (1931)

Boris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…

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