| Frankenstein (1931)
Colin Clive (Dr. Henry Frankenstein), a medical student who creates life in a body stitched together from corpses-with the help from his hunchbacked assistant Dwight Frye (Fritz). |
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Pretorius) brings Colin Clive (Henry von Frankenstein) around to the idea of creating the female equivalent of his Monster. With Valerie Hobson (Elizabeth von Frankenstein) |
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Boris Karloff (The Monster) is a more sympathetic character than he was in the first film. He hates himself and the way he looks. With Elsa Lanchester (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) |
| Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Lionel Atwill (Inspector Krogh) is a policeman who had a childhood encounter with Boris Karloff (The Monster) which left him with a wooden arm. And now the monster has been restored to full health. With Donnie Dunagan (Peter von Frankenstein). |
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
This was the first time Lon Chaney Jr. played the role of the Monster. He took over from Boris Karloff, who played the role in the first three films. With Evelyn Ankers (Elsa) Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Frankenstein) Janet Ann Gallow (Cloestine). |
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Lon Chaney Jr. (Lawrence Stewart Talbot) doesn't want to be the Wolfman. He believes that the work of Dr. Frankenstein will cure him. Larry finds the body of the monster and revives and befriends him. With Bela Lugosi (The Frankenstein Monster) |
| House of Frankenstein (1944)
In this story Boris Karloff does not play the monster but the mad Doctor Gustav Niemann. The doctor revives the bodies of the Wolf Man, Dracula and the Monster of Frankenstein. With George Zucco (Professor Bruno Lampini). |
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Lenore Aubert (Dr. Sandra Mornay) and Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula) plan to use Glenn Strange (The Frankenstein Monster) for their own nefarious purposes but he proves to be uncontrollable so they decide to give him a smaller brain. |
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula), Glenn Strange (The Frankenstein Monster), Lenore Aubert (Dr. Sandra Mornay) and Lou Costello (Wilbur Grey). |