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Other articles where Colin Clive is discussed: Bride of Frankenstein: Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive). Initially refusing to help, Frankenstein relents after Pretorius has the monster kidnap Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth (Valerie Hobson). However, once the two scientists have animated their new creation (Elsa Lanchester), a grotesque beauty with a frizzled shock of hair, even she rejects the monster…
Jun 13, 2024 · The movie begins with a prologue in which the audience is warned about the horrifying tale to follow. At a castle in the Bavarian mountains, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye) succeed in piecing together a human body out of parts stolen from various corpses.
Colin Clive. Highest Rated: 100% History Is Made at Night (1937) Lowest Rated: 83% Christopher Strong (1933) Birthday: Jan 20, 1900. Birthplace: St. Malo, France. Clive reprised his stage success ...
Colin Clive (1900-1937) is forever immortalized as Henry Frankenstein in the first two Universal FRANKENSTEIN films. His real forte as an actor was playing angst-ridden neurotics – meaning that he was perfectly cast as Henry Frankenstein – and when portraying a driven nervous energy character he didn’t seem to be acting.
English actor of stage and screen, Colin Clive, died on the 25th of June, 1937, aged just 37. Although most famously remembered for playing Dr Frankenstein in James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), it was his stage and film portrayal of the tormented alcoholic Captain Stanhope, a role which tragically mirrored his ...
Assisted by the hunchback Fritz (Dwight Frye), probably the most famous mentally deficient sidekick in horror cinema, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) can be seen in the film's opening waiting for the funeral to end so that he can dig a freshly buried corpse out of its final resting place before skulking back to his gothic lab.
