Boris Karloff : One of best actors ever

Boris Karloff. The Uncanny.

Karloff was typecast as a horror film actor and, indeed, those were his bread and butter roles for the most part. The fact remains, however, that he was one of the finest actors who ever lived. He could play a homicidal body snatcher in one film and a grandfatherly scientist in another. A cold blooded satanist in The Black Cat and Captain Hook in Peter Pan.

You have to be one of the best to be able to be versatile.

Anyone else agree that Boris Karloff was one of the best actors to ever live?

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Anyone else agree that Boris Karloff was one of the best actors to ever live?

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Whole-heartedly.





"Tell me about the squares, Buzzie."

Yes indeed! He and Lon Chaney were supreme at their craft.

I completely agreeHe never regretted being typecast in any of his roles. Something that many actors are afraid of but as you said there are so many additional roles that he had that weren't "horror" and was brilliant in them.

God you can have Megan FoxGive us back Vivien Leigh

Boris Karloff was one of those actors that you always knew would be great in a variety of genres without them proving it.

Whenever it's Boris Karloff day on TCM I am tempted to call in sick at work! He's the only actor I'm willing to miss work to see.