Filmography: Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster ()Release Date: September 17, 2021
Cast: Boris Karloff, Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman, Christopher Plummer, Lee Grant
Director: Thomas Hamilton
Writer: Thomas Hamilton, Ron MacCloskey

The Old Dark House (1932) (NR)Release Date: October 6, 2017
Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger
Director: James Whale
Writer: J.B. Priestley, Benn W. Levy

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen (NR)Release Date: September 4, 2004
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich, John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Roger Corman, Joe Dante
Director: Michael Palm

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (NR)Release Date: January 1, 2003
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Director: Charles Barton

Mad Monster Party (1967) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1967
Cast: Boris Karloff, Gale Garnett, Allen Swift, Phyllis Diller, Ethel Ennis
Director: Jules Bass
Writer: Forrest J Ackerman, Leo Korobkin

The Sorcerers (1967) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1967
Cast: Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Ercy, Ian Ogilvy, Victor Henry, Sally Sheridan
Director: Michael Reeves
Writer: Michael Reeves, Tom Baker

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) (NR)Release Date: December 18, 1966
Cast: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon
Director: Chuck Jones

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (NR)Release Date: April 6, 1966
Cast: Tommy Kirk, Deborah Whalley, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Nancy Sinatra
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Louis M. Heyward

Black Sabbath (I Tre Volti della paura) (NR)Release Date: May 6, 1964
Cast: Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Susy Andersen
Director: Mario Bava, Salvatore Billitteri
Writer: Mario Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) (NR)Release Date: January 22, 1964
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: Richard Matheson

The Raven (1963) (G)Release Date: January 25, 1963
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe

Corridors of Blood (1962) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1962
Cast: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee, Finlay Currie, Adrienne Corri
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Jean Scott Rogers

The Haunted Strangler (NR)Release Date: July 3, 1958
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Vera Day
Director: Robert Day
Writer: John Croydon

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1953
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott
Director: Charles Lamont
Writer: Howard Dimsdale, John Grant

Tap Roots (NR)Release Date: August 25, 1948
Cast: Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor
Director: George Marshall
Writer: Alan Le May, James H. Street

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) (NR)Release Date: September 1, 1947
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Writer: James Thurber, Ken Englund

Lured (NR)Release Date: August 28, 1947
Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: Douglas Sirk
Writer: Jacques Companeez, Simon Gantillon

Bedlam (1946) (NR)Release Date: May 10, 1946
Cast: Anna Lee, Boris Karloff, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon
Director: Mark Robson
Writer: William Hogarth, Val Lewton

The Body Snatcher (1945) (NR)Release Date: May 25, 1945
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Director: Robert Wise
Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip MacDonald

House of Frankenstein (1944) (NR)Release Date: December 1, 1944
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Writer: Curt Siodmak

The Boogie Man Will Get You (NR)Release Date: October 22, 1942
Cast: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Larry Parks, Jeff Donnell
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: Hal Fimberg, Edwin Blum

British Intelligence (NR)Release Date: January 29, 1940
Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Holmes Herbert
Director: Terry O. Morse
Writer: Lee Katz, Anthony Paul Kelly

The Man They Could Not Hang (NR)Release Date: August 17, 1939
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Don Beddoe
Director: Nick Grinde
Writer: Karl Brown, George Wallace Sayre

Charlie Chan at the Opera (1937) (NR)Release Date: January 8, 1937
Cast: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer: Charles Belden, Scott Darling

Doctor Maniac Who Lived Again (NR)Release Date: November 1, 1936
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: John L. Balderston, Sidney Gilliat

The Invisible Ray (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1936
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake
Director: Lambert Hillyer

The Raven (1935) (NR)Release Date: July 8, 1935
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: David Boehm

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (NR)Release Date: April 22, 1935
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
Writer: William Hurlbut

The Lost Patrol (1934) (NR)Release Date: February 16, 1934
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan
Director: John Ford
Writer: Garrett Fort, Philip MacDonald

The Ghoul (1933) (NR)Release Date: November 25, 1933
Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Writer: Rupert Downing, Leonard Hines

The Mummy (1932) (NR)Release Date: December 22, 1932
Cast: Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
Director: Karl Freund
Writer: Richard Schayer, Nina Wilcox Putnam

Scarface (1932) (NR)Release Date: April 9, 1932
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, George Raft
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Writer: Armitage Trail, Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett

Behind the Mask (1932) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1932
Cast: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Claude King, Bertha Mann
Director: John Francis Dillon

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) (NR)Release Date: January 1, 1932
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy
Director: Charles Brabin
Writer: Sax Rohmer, Irene Kuhn

Frankenstein (1931) (NR)Release Date: November 21, 1931
Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Frederick Kerr
Director: James Whale
Writer: John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh

Graft (1931) (NR)Release Date: September 11, 1931
Cast: Regis Toomey, Sue Carol, Dorothy Revier, Boris Karloff, George Irving
Director: Christy Cabanne
Writer: Barry Barringer

Cracked Nuts (1931) (NR)Release Date: April 18, 1931
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Edna May Oliver, Leni Stengel
Director: Edward F. Cline
Writer: Al Boasberg, Douglas MacLean, Ralph Spence

The Ape (1940) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Gertrude Hoffman
Director: William Nigh
Writer: Adam Shirk, Curt Siodmak

Before I Hang (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
Director: Nick Grinde

The Black Castle (1952) (NR)Cast: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Paula Corday, Lon Chaney
Director: Nathan Juran

The Black Cat (1934) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer: Edgar G. Ulmer, Edgar Allan Poe

The Bride Who Died Twice ()Cast: Boris Karloff, Mala Powers, Eduardo Ciannelli
Director: Ida Lupino

The Crimson Cult (Curse of the Crimson Altar) (PG)Cast: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden, Barbara Steele, Michael Gough
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writer: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln

The Devil Commands (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Amanda Duff, Anne Revere, Ralph Penney
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews, Milton Gunzburg

Die, Monster, Die! (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer, Terence de Marney
Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: Jerry Sohl, H.P. Lovecraft

Doomed to Die (1940) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
Director: William Nigh
Writer: Michael Jacoby

The Fatal Hour (1940) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
Director: William Nigh
Writer: Scott Darling

The Fear Chamber (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East, Isela Vega, Yerye Beirute
Director: Jack Hill, Juan Ibáñez
Writer: Jack Hill, Luis Enrique Vergara

Frankenstein 1970 (1958) ()Cast: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund
Director: Howard W. Koch
Writer: Richard H. Landau

Friend Good (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff
Director: Jay Rosenblatt

The House of Rothschild (NR)Cast: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith
Director: Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield
Writer: George Hembert Westley, Nunnally Johnson, George Arliss, Maude T. Howell, Sam Mintz

Isle of the Dead (1945) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Director: Mark Robson
Writer: Ardel Wray

The Man Who Lived Again ()Cast: Boris Karloff, John Loder, Anna Lee, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: L. du Garde Peach

Night Key (1937) (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Warren Hull, Jean Rogers, Alan Baxter
Director: Lloyd Corrigan
Writer: Tristram Tupper, Jack Moffitt

The Public Defender (NR)Cast: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston, Edmund Breese
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Writer: George Goodchild, Bernard Schubert

Strange Door, The (1951) ()Cast: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
Director: Joesph Pevney
Writer: Jerry Sackheim, Robert Louis Stevenson

Targets (PG)Cast: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Nancy Hsueh
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich

Tarzan and the Golden Lion (NR)Cast: James Pierce, Frederick Peters, Edna Murphy, Harold Goodwin, Dorothy Dunbar
Director: J.P. McGowan

The Terror (1963) ()Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann
Director: Roger Corman

The Terror (PG)Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson
Director: Roger Corman

Tonight or Never (NR)Cast: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Robert Greig
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton

Tower of London (NR)Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Writer: Robert N. Lee

Unconquered (1947) (NR)Cast: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Director: Cecil B. De Mille
Writer: Charles Bennett, Fredric M. Frank, Jesse L. Lasky Jr.

Voodoo Island (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr., Rhodes Reason
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writer: Richard H. Landau

What Beckoning Ghost? (NR)Cast: Boris Karloff, Judith Evelyn, Tom Helmore
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: Harold Lawlor, Donald S. Sanford