Dwight Frye

Dwight Frye

Acting 1899-02-22 Salina, Kansas, USA

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

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2025 Self - (archive footage)
2000 Renfield (archive footage)
1998 (archive footage)
1991 Fritz / Karl (archive footage)
1943 Rudi a Vasarian
1943 Zolarr
1943 Haldine (uncredited)
1943 Hostage
1943 Hoodlum (uncredited)
1942 Villager at Meeting / Grave Robber (flashback) (uncredited)
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1942 Ziggy (uncredited)
1941 Rader
1941 Leo Qualen
1941 Radio Operator
1940 Prof. Anderson
1940 Speavy
1940 Pinky
1940 Eddie Anders
1940 Pavlov's Secretary (Uncredited)
1939 Fouquet's Valet
1938 Arsonist
1938 Marshall (uncredited)
1938 Mr. Owen
1938 Sidney Z. Wheeler
1938 John Colley
1938 Gravet, 'the Jackal'
1938 Alex
1937 SS Paradise Radio Operator (uncredited)
1937 Vindecco
1937 Hysterical patient
1937 Mr. Easton (makeup supervisor)
1936 Swanson
1936 McBride
1936 Jenkins
1935 Karl
1935 Spike Jonas
1935 Dr. Thomas
1935 Roger Unthank (uncredited)
1933 Herman Gleib
1933 Flandrin
1933 Reporter (uncredited)
1932 Robert Wayne
1932 James Wallace
1932 Dick Loomis
1932 Chick Lewis
1931 Renfield
1931 Fritz
1931 Wilmer Cook
1931 Renfield (archive footage) (uncredited)
1931 Jessop the Butler (uncredited)
1930 Monk, Gangster
1930 Vint Glade
1928 Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1927 Theatre Audience Spectator
1926 Balcony Heckler (uncredited)