Karloff
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- proper noun
- /ˈkɑrloʊf/
- In another program, Boris Karloff played a self-satisfied scientist who had reanimated 471 animals.
- Boris Karloff
Examples
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Makeup artist Jack Pierce spent eight hours a day transforming Karloff into the bandaged, ancient mummy.
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William Henry Pratt, better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.
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Mr Karloff, what an honour.
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"Did I ever tell you that you sound like Boris Karloff when you do that?" he asked.
Fiction book (1999) -
I told you we should've got Karloff!
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Although he played mainly sinister characters, in real life, Karloff was known as very kind.
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I am just a Boris Karloff nut.
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Boris Karloff... how did you ever think of casting him as "The Monster"?
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The Mummy—the original, 1932 with Boris Karloff and some of the early remakes are great.
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Many fans consider Boris Karloff the definitive actor to portray Frankenstein's monster.
Synonyms
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An English-born American actor famous for playing Frankenstein's monster in horror films
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Karloff was a stage name used by the actor Boris to sound Russian and a little mysterious. A helpful way to remember it is to see Karl plus the ending -off as 'son of Karl', and that foreign-sounding name helped create the eerie image that made him famous as Frankenstein's monster.