James Whale was a ground-breaking Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as "Frankenstein", "Bride of Frankenstein", and "The Invisible Man."

Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902 - December 26, 1986 in Woodland Hills, California) was an Oscar-nominated English character actress who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton. She is best remembered for her role as the monster's wife in "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).

Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor.

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger CBE (15 January, 1879 - 14 January, 1961), sometimes credited as Ernst Thesiger, was a British stage and film actor. He is best known for his performance as Dr. Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein" in 1935.

Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22 1899 - November 7 1943) was an American stage and screen actor. 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".

Una O'Connor (23 October, 1880 - 4 February, 1959) was an Irish actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a notable character actress in film. Born Agnes Teresa McGlade to a Catholic nationalist family in Belfast, Ireland (now Belfast, Northern Ireland), and educated at St. Vincent's National School, she changed her name when she began her acting career with Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

Carl Laemmle Jr. was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family, developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. Although Universal had great success with "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "Dracula" (1931), …

John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. Balderston began his career as a journalist. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I. He was the editor of "Outlook" magazine and a correspondent for the "New York World".

John P. Fulton (born 1902 in Nebraska and died October 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American special effects supervisor and cinematographer. Though Fulton began his adult life as a surveyor, he became involved in the movie industry after accepting a job as an assistant cameraman. In time he became a camera operator and acted as cinematographer in his first official credit in 1929 with the early sound drama "She Goes to War".

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Alberto Manguel is a writer, translator, and editor who was born in 1948 in Buenos Aires. Manguel wrote non-fiction books such as "The Dictionary of Imaginary Places" (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and "A History of Reading" (1996) and novels such as "News From a Foreign Country Came" (1991). Manguel also wrote film criticism such as "Bride of Frankenstein" (1997) and essays such as "Into the Looking Glass Wood" (1998).

Philip MacDonald, November 5, 1900, London — December 10, 1980, Woodland Hills, California, was a British thriller writer. He was the grandson of the writer George MacDonald and son of the author Ronald MacDonald and the actress Constance Robertson. During World War I he served in the British cavalry in Mesopotamia, later trained horses for the army, and was a show jumper. He also raised Great Danes. After marrying the writer F. Ruth Howard, he moved to Hollywood in 1931.