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Dwight Frye
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Dwight Frye
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1899-02-22,Salina, Kansas, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Frye was born in Salina, Kansas. Nicknamed "The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare," and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths," he specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters, including his signature role, the madman Renfield in Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula. Later that same year he also played the hunchbacked assistant in the film Frankenstein. (This character, named Fritz, is often mistakenly referred to as Ygor, a character originated by Béla Lugosi in the later film Son of Frankenstein.) Frye had a prominent role in the 1933 horror film The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, and Fay Wray, in which he played Herman, a half-wit suspected of being a killer. He also had a memorable role in the classic Bride of Frankenstein, in which he played Karl. The part of Karl was originally much longer and many extra scenes of Frye were shot as a sub plot but were edited out of the final version to shorten the running time as well as to appease the censor boards. The most memorable of these "cut scenes" was that of Karl killing the Burgomaster portrayed by E. E. Clive. No known prints of these scenes survive today, but photographs of the scene were used to illustrate the scene's synopsis and are included in the recent Universal DVD release of the film. During the early 1940s, Frye alternated between film roles and appearing on stage in a variety of productions ranging from comedies to musicals, as well as appearing in a stage version of Dracula. In 1924 he played the Son in a translation of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.[1] There was a Dwight Frye Fan Club at one time,[2] but it is currently dormant. He also made a contribution to the war effort by working nights as a tool designer for Lockheed Aircraft. Frye's strong resemblance to former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker helped land him what would have been a substantial role in the biographical film Wilson, based on the life of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, but he died of a heart attack while riding on a bus in Hollywood a few days before filming was to have begun. Frye was interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dwight Frye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

7.2

Dracula
1931-02-12

Bride of Frankenstein

7.5

Bride of Frankenstein
1935-04-20

7.472

Frankenstein
1931-11-21

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

6.204

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943-03-05

The Ghost of Frankenstein

5.819

The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942-03-13

The Doorway to Hell

6.2

The Doorway to Hell
1930-10-18

6

The Night Bird
1928-09-16

The Maltese Falcon

6.4

The Maltese Falcon
1931-05-23

4.6

Dead Men Walk
1943-04-12

The Vampire Bat

5.4

The Vampire Bat
1933-01-21

5.7

Sea Devils
1937-02-19

The Circus Queen Murder

5

The Circus Queen Murder
1933-04-10

7

Think It Over
1938-07-24

The Many Faces of Dracula

5

The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

5.7

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01

Sinners in Paradise

5.3

Sinners in Paradise
1938-05-19

Who Killed Gail Preston?

6

Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938-02-24

6.5

The Shadow
1937-12-22

5.7

Man to Man
1930-12-05

Beware Of Ladies

5

Beware Of Ladies
1936-12-21

Submarine Alert

4.6

Submarine Alert
1943-06-28

Atlantic Adventure

5.5

Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25

5.4

Fast Company
1938-07-05

Hangmen Also Die!

6.9

Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15

0

The Night Hawk
1938-10-01

The Man Who Found Himself

7

The Man Who Found Himself
1937-04-02

Alibi for Murder

5.5

Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23

5.8

Upstream
1927-01-30

The Blonde from Singapore

5

The Blonde from Singapore
1941-10-15

The Man in the Iron Mask

7.1

The Man in the Iron Mask
1939-07-13

Drums of Fu Manchu

6.1

Drums of Fu Manchu
1940-03-15

5

Sky Bandits
1940-07-06

0

Mystery Ship
1941-09-03

Adventure in Sahara

5.6

Adventure in Sahara
1938-11-15

A Strange Adventure

5

A Strange Adventure
1932-11-20

Gangs of Chicago

5.3

Gangs of Chicago
1940-05-18

Something to Sing About

6.2

Something to Sing About
1937-09-30

The Crime of Doctor Crespi

4.5

The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1935-09-23

Phantom Raiders

6.1

Phantom Raiders
1940-06-07

7.9

Exit Smiling
1926-11-06

The Invisible Man

7.5

The Invisible Man
1933-11-03

Invisible Enemy

6

Invisible Enemy
1938-04-03

The Son of Monte Cristo

6.2

The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05

Attorney for the Defense

6

Attorney for the Defense
1932-05-21

Dangerous Blondes

6

Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23

5

Flying Blind
1941-08-29

The Western Code

0

The Western Code
1932-09-15

3.3

Devil Pays Off
1941-11-10

Florida Special

6

Florida Special
1936-04-21

The Great Impersonation

0

The Great Impersonation
1935-12-08

6.746

Drácula
1931-03-11

The Black Camel

6

The Black Camel
1931-06-21

5.6

Don't Talk
1942-02-28

Universal Horror

7.2

Universal Horror
1998-10-08

6

By Whose Hand?
1932-07-06