Post by teleadm on Aug 16, 2018 13:16:00 GMT
I put this here as a little distraction from modern monsters...
Glenn Strange was born today 119 years ago, and passed away in 1973.
Standing 6' 5" he usually played brutes, mostly in westerns, but the reason I mention his name here is because he played Frankenstein's monster in the last three movies in the Universal series in the 1940s, if one also counts in the meeting with the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
His make-up as the monster also became the basis of a Holloween mask that became very popular, so popular that when Boris Karloff died in 1969 many newpapers by mistake showed pictures of Glenn Strange's monster.
Glenn Strange started in movies in 1930, usually uncredied throughout his career.
The Mad Monster 1942
House of Frankenstein 1944, with Boris Karloff (!) and Lon Chaney Jr.
House of Dracula 1945, with Onslow Stevens.
Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein 1948, with Bela Lugosi and Lou Costello.
Clowning around on the Universal backlot while making Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein 1948, with Ann Blyth who played a mermaid in another movie.
Some might remember Sam the Barman on Gunsmoke, it's the same Glenn Strange, he played that role in 238 episodes between 1961 and 1973.
Thanks for watching!
Glenn Strange was born today 119 years ago, and passed away in 1973.
Standing 6' 5" he usually played brutes, mostly in westerns, but the reason I mention his name here is because he played Frankenstein's monster in the last three movies in the Universal series in the 1940s, if one also counts in the meeting with the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
His make-up as the monster also became the basis of a Holloween mask that became very popular, so popular that when Boris Karloff died in 1969 many newpapers by mistake showed pictures of Glenn Strange's monster.
Glenn Strange started in movies in 1930, usually uncredied throughout his career.
The Mad Monster 1942
House of Frankenstein 1944, with Boris Karloff (!) and Lon Chaney Jr.
House of Dracula 1945, with Onslow Stevens.
Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein 1948, with Bela Lugosi and Lou Costello.
Clowning around on the Universal backlot while making Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein 1948, with Ann Blyth who played a mermaid in another movie.
Some might remember Sam the Barman on Gunsmoke, it's the same Glenn Strange, he played that role in 238 episodes between 1961 and 1973.
Thanks for watching!
