Born: November 23, 1887 - Camberwell, London, England, UK Died: February 2, 1969 - Midhurst, Sussex, England, UK Cause: emphysema
Boris Karloff , born
William Henry Pratt, was a famous actor in horror films.
A son of Edward John Pratt Jr, the Deputy Commissioner of Customs Salt and Opium, Northern Division, Indian Salt Revenue
Service, and his third wife, Eliza Sarah Millard, the future actor was born in Camberwell, London, and brought up in Enfield. His maternal grandmother was Eliza Julia Edwards, a sister of Anna
Leonowens, whose stories about life in the royal court of Siam were the basis of the
musical "The King and I".
Through her, Karloff could claim East Indian ancestry, as it seems that Eliza Edwards and her sister, Anna, were the
children of a mixed-race marriage. Karloff, however, often claimed Russian ancestry to
explain his exotic looks, though his daughter Sara Karloff publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic
forebears.
Orphaned in his youth, he was raised by his elder brothers and sister and attended Enfield Grammar School
before moving to Uppingham School in Rutland, and eventually the
University of London. Karloff's first goal in life was to
join the foreign service -- his brother Sir John Henry Pratt became a distinguished British diplomat -- but instead he fell into acting. In
1908, Pratt travelled to Canada, changing his
name to something more in keeping with his new vocation while on his way to an acting job in Kamloops, British Columbia. He spent years testing
the waters in North America while living in smaller towns like Kamloops
and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
He also
lived in Minot, North Dakota for a year, performing in an
opera house above a hardware store. In 1912, while appearing in a play in Regina, Saskatchewan, Karloff volunteered to be a rescue worker
following a devastating tornado. For health reasons, he did not fight in the First World War.
Once he arrived in California, Karloff made many silent films, before appearing as the Monster in Frankenstein , the film that made him a star.
Karloff was a very fine actor
who played a wide variety of roles in other genres besides horror. He gave an excellent performance in the 1934 John Ford epic The Lost
Patrol. He also narrated the famous cartoon How the Grinch
Stole Christmas. Due to an error in the credits, it is sometimes erroneously stated that Karloff sang the famous song
"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" but this was in fact voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.
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