- Jeff Frankenstein
Jeff Frankenstein (born June 26, 1974 (nickname Oinch) is an American musician from Sterling Heights, Michigan. He is most known as the keyboardist for the Newsboys. According to an interview published in an issue of the Christian teen magazine Breakaway, Frankenstein was asked by the members of the Newsboys to join as the new keyboardist after attending a Newsboys concert, meeting the band backstage, and telling them he played piano. - Alfred Frankenstein
Alfred Frankenstein (1906-1981) was an art and music critic, author and professional musician. He was the long-time art and music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Noted for championing American art, his most famous book is After The Hunt, a volume that examined the trompe l'Oeil movement in late 19th century and early 20th century American art, focussing on the painters William Harnett and John Frederick Peto. - Danny Frankenstein
Danny Frankenstein (born Donato Canzonieri) is the former bassist and co-founder, along with brother Sal Canzonieri, of New Jersey high energy punk rock band Electric Frankenstein. He currently plays in hardcore deathrock band When I Was Dead with Tony Cadena of The Adolescents. He plays a Fender Precision bass and occasionally an Ibanez Iceman bass. - Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. - Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 - February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankenstein's monster in 1931's "Frankenstein". His popularity following "Frankenstein" in the early 1930s was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or, on some movie posters, "Karloff the Uncanny". - Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. He was also asked, because he was such a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, to appear as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original "Star Wars" film. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. - James Whale
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." - Glenn Strange
Glenn Strange (August 16 1899 - September 20 1973) was an American actor. Most of his film appearances were in Western movies.He also appeared in "The Mad Monster" which he did for Producers Releasing Corporation. Strange made that film in 1942. He is also known for his appearances as Universal Studios' "Frankenstein's Monster" (the role created by Boris Karloff in 1931's "Frankenstein"), which he began in 1944, … - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy". However, his major works were long visionary poems including "Alastor", "Adonais", "The Revolt of Islam", … - John Carradine
John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He also portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). - Colin Clive
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. - William Godwin
William Godwin (3 March 1756 - 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of minarchist philosophy. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice", an attack on political institutions, and "Things as They Are: The Adventures of Caleb Williams", … - Dwight Frye
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". - Luke Goss
Luke Damon Goss is a singer and actor from England, born 29 September 1968. Along with twin brother Matt Goss, he started his career with the highly successful 1980s boy band Bros. In total he has charted no fewer than 13 hit singles in his homeland. When Bros broke up in the early 1990s, Goss embarked on a solo career and also formed Luke Goss and the Band Of Thieves. His highly successful autobiography, "I Owe You Nothing" was a top 10 best seller book, … - Mae Clarke
Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 - April 29, 1992) was an American film actress. Mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a dancer and subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original "The Front Page" (1931) and the first sound version of "Frankenstein" (1931) with Boris Karloff. Clarke played the role of Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee in "Frankenstein", … - Jack Pierce
Jack Pierce (May 5, 1889 in Greece - July 19, 1968), born Janus Piccoulas, was a Hollywood make-up artist most famous for creating the iconic make-up worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios' 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". After immigrating to the United States from Greece as a teenager, Pierce tried his hand at several careers, including a stint as an amateur baseball player. - Edward van Sloan
Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881-6 March 1964) was a film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. His best-remembered roles were in the Universal horror films of the early 1930s, including "Dracula" (1931), "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Mummy" (1932). In the first of these, he played Abraham van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter, … - Valerie Hobson
Valerie Hobson was a British actress, who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland (later to become part of Northern Ireland.) She appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original "Frankenstein" (1932). - John Polidori
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess. He had three brothers and four sisters. He was one of the earliest pupils at recently established Ampleforth College from 1804, … - Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall American actor, best known for starring in the television sitcoms "Car 54, Where Are You?" and "The Munsters". For his role as Herman Munster he had to wear 40 or 50 lb (20 kg) of padding, makeup and elevator shoes. Earlier he was in the cast of "The Phil Silvers Show" as a man of enormous appetite that Sgt. - Richard Henry
Richard Henry is a pseudonym credited on collaborative works of authors Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton. Works attributed to Richard Henry include Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim, a parody of the Mary Shelly novel Frankenstein, presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in 1887. - J. P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan (born 1957) started drawing in second grade, where he confounded teachers with his elaborate, scar-covered drawings of Frankenstein monsters. As he reached high school, he became a fan of Warner Bros. classic cartoons, " Rat Fink" creatures and hot rods, even making some sales to Hot Rod Cartoons, followed by CARtoons (with some longer comic stories). After graduating, Morgan entered Parsons School of Design for three years, learning more about illustration, … - Peter Haining
Peter Haining (born April 2, 1940) is a British journalist, author and anthologist who lives and works in London. He has also used the pen names "Ric Alexander" and "Richard Peyton." He has written several reference books on "Doctor Who" including the 21st anniversary special "The Key to Time" (1984). - Robert Florey
Robert Florey was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. In 1950, Florey was made a knight in the French Légion d'honneur. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage, and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He directed more than 50 movies over the next 23 years, from the first Marx Brothers movie "The Cocoanuts" (1929), … - Alec Newman
Alec Newman is a Scottish stage,television, and film actor. He was born in Glasgow on November 27, 1974. Prior to joining the National Youth Theatre in London at age 17, he considered becoming a professional footballer. His highest profile appearances are tied to science fiction works. In 2000, he starred in the role of Paul Atreides in the Sci Fi Channel adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune". Three years later, he reprised the role for "Children of Dune". - Carl Laemmle Jr.
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
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". - Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including important contributions to electronic literature and hypertext. Born in the Philippines, Jackson grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated from Berkeley High School. She received a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. She is widely recognized for "Patchwork Girl (hypertext)", … - Doug Mahnke
Douglas "Doug" Mahnke (pronounced MAN-key) is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on "The Mask", "JLA", "Batman", and "Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein". He has also worked on titles such as "Major Bummer", "Superman: The Man of Steel", "Team Zero" and "Justice League Elite". He was the original artist for the Dark Horse title "X", a run inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, … - David Dukes
David Dukes was an American character actor. Dukes was born in San Francisco, California. He had a long career in films, appearing in 35; and as a television guest star, notably as the man who attempted to rape Edith Bunker on "All in the Family," and during the 1980s in the miniseries "The Winds of War". - Marilyn Harris
Marilyn Harris (1924 - 1999) was an American child actor in several Hollywood productions of the 1930s. She will always be best remembered for her role as 'Little Maria' in the classic horror film "Frankenstein" (1931). In arguably the film's most memorable scene, she meets the fugitive monster (played by Boris Karloff) beside a riverbank and charms the monster with her innocence, humanity and friendship, … - Garrett Fort
Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American short story writer, playwright, and prolific Hollywood screenwriter. Fort made his screenwriting debut with the silent film, "One of the Finest" (1917). Early in his career Fort co-wrote the Broadway play "Jarnegan" (1928), based on the novel by Jim Tully. Fort's first talkie effort was the ground-breaking Rouben Mamoulian production "Applause" (1929). - Arthur Edeson
Arthur Edeson was a film cinematographer. The New York City-born Edeson began as a lensman in films in 1914 in the early days of film and worked until 1949. In the early thirties, perhaps his most memorable creative partnership was formed with director James Whale, for whom he photographed three of his famed quartet of horror films ("Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), … - John P. Fulton
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". - George Edwards
George Edwards was an early Australian actor and producer. He was born Harold Parks in 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia. He moved to England, where he changed his name to George Edwards. In 1938, he took part in a 13-part, 3-hour radio serial based closely on the novel "Frankenstein". - Clara Reeve
Clara Reeve (1729 - 1807), novelist, born in Ipswich, England, was the author of several novels, of which only one is remembered--"The Champion of Virtue", later known as "The Old English Baron" (1777), written in imitation of, or rivalry with, the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, with which it has often been printed. Her novel noticeably influenced Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". - Les Daniels
Les Daniels (born 1943) is an American writer of literary criticism, cultural studies and historical horror fiction. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he wrote his master's thesis on "Frankenstein", and he has worked as a musician and as a journalist. He is the author of five novels featuring the vampire Don Sebastian de Villanueva, a cynical, … - Roger Pratt
Roger Pratt is a well-respected British cinematographer. Pratt is a BSC-certified cinematographer, and has been the director of photography for more than 35 films. His most prominent films he worked are Batman (1989), Frankenstein (1994), 102 Dalmatians (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Troy (2004), and most recently, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). His brother, Vernon, is a well respected Philosophy lecturer at Lancaster University - Betty T. Bennett
Betty T. Bennett (1935-2006) was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985-1997) at American University. She was previously Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and acting provost of Pratt Institute from 1979 to 1985. Among her numerous awards and honors, Bennett was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and fellow of American Council of Learned Societies.
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