Talk:Boris Karloff

message: I'm looking for the film that was I believe on PBS Channel 4 in Idaho.  Boris Karloff narrated it.  It was about meat-eating plants.  Do you know where I can get a copy of it.  I would like a copy for myself and possibly a copy for our commmunity library (Ada Community Library) in Boise,ID.  Any information you can get for me would be appreciated.  My regular mailing address is Mary Grover  P.O.Box 79  Kuna, ID  83634 or my E-Mail address is mary_dayle51@hotmail.com.  Thank-You very Much!!  I really enjoyed looking at your web-site.
*Hey, it's your website, too. --Alcalde 19:12, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: Any other relatives out there????  
He was like my great uncle or something. But shout out to Sarah Karloff- Hey I didn't know i was related to you.
well, i guess you learn something new everyday. Yesterday it was to not eat dairy products...im afraid im a bit lactosintolerant(i think i spelt that wrong...oh well) -Jenna Pratt
Jenna, this is not a forum to openly invite to discuss with other fans. You're not a relative of his: there are millions of Pratts. Everyone who finds out his real last name claims to be related to him. You're most likely not. Just like there are millions of Smiths and they're not related at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.288.137.213 (talk) 03:48, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relatives??? 

message: Having him in the Eurasian category is stretching things somewhat, after all his mother's mother's mother's mother was Bengali from Calcutta but the rest of his family was English - as such he was only 1/16 East Indian, Anna Leonowens his Great Aunt could just about be described as Eurasian being a 1/4 East Indian (both her name and Boris Karloff's name were invented and not their actual names), anything less than a 1/4 and I think it's stretching things somewhat to describe them as Eurasian. --Lord of the Isles 21:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anglo-Indian does not necessarily mean Indian blood. The family could be considered Anglo-Indian with 1/16th Indian blood or even less. But if they did not so consider themselves there is no point in trying to rewrite history. I myself might have a 1/16th Irish ancestry, that does not make me Irish.203.184.41.226 (talk) 21:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eurasians 

message: Apparently there were 8 movies to star both Messrs Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. This was mentioned in the The Black Cat (1934 film) article. Can someone list these 8 movies, if they are indeed 8? --h_a 23:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From the top of my head, I can remember 
The Black Cat (1934 film), 
The Raven (film), 
The Body Snatcher (film) and 
The Invisible Ray.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.9.184.140 (talk) 16:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Add Son of Frankenstein, Gift of Gab, You'll Find Out and Black Friday (they had no scenes together in this one). CFLeon (talk) 23:35, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the 8 movies to pair Karloff & Lugosi" 

message: Per debate and discussion re: assessment of the approximate 100 top priority articles of the project, this article has been included as a top priority article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 07:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers]] priority assessment

message: This article claims that Karloff took Frankenstein's monster role upon B%C3%A9la Lugosi's refusal. The wikipedia article on Lugosi points out that this might actually be incorrect, based on Lugosi documents and other records.
Jcgdelgado (talk) 14:35, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering that there is no citation for the statement about the refusal, I am going to remove it. Tkech (talk) 05:42, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi 

message: From my "Famous Ruggers" article at http://wesclark.com/rrr/famous.html - this should be mentioned in the article, I think, perhaps under "Personal Life":
"...I know he played rugby, and it seems he also had a role in forming the Southern California RFU. When I asked his daughter Sarah, she wrote, "I know my father adored cricket and was a member of the Hollywood Cricket team. He played both rugby and cricket in school in England at Enfield and at Uppingham. I don't have any info on whether or not he was a member of the L.A. rugby football club. Hope this helps." On a later occasion, she wrote, “Thank you for your e-mail. I know my father was one of the founders of the Hollywood Cricket Club and played on the team with Sir Aubrey Smith. He may have played on the rugby team too, but I don't think he had a hand in starting it.” However, Tony Spinella, the historian of the Southern California Rugby Football Union writes, “The SCRFU was formed in 1937. The articles of formation have Boris Karloff on them. If I recall he was a member of the Hollywood Athletic Club rugby team at the time (as were other notables)."
- Wes Clark  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.207.244.4 (talk) 12:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports - rugby and cricket 

message: British Columbia History, vol 39, no 1, p 16 has an article from 2006 by Greg Nesteroff entitled Boris Karloff in British Columbia.  Lots of info. --KenWalker | Talk 02:08, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A better link: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0190687  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.80.249 (talk) 20:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source concerning his time in Canada 

message: That first paragraph about his ancestry is incredibly long winded and confusing. I would edit it myself, but I don't even understand what it's supposed to say - it seems to suggest that two lines of his ancestry were Indian, but I suspect this is just because it is badly written Melaena (talk) 20:54, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I felt the same way when I read it. The identical paragraph is in the Anna Leonowens wikipedia article. I've edited the paragraph in the Karloff article as best as I can, stating the national heritage and the relationship to "Miss Anna". Hopefully it helps. Tkech (talk) 00:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Years

message: The way the first sentence is constructed, it makes it appear that his most significant action was to emigrate to Canada; this may be important, it may be an achievement, but does it need to to be mentioned in the very first sentence of the article? It’s not like he spent the greatest part of his life in Canada, or that he is most often mistaken for a Canadian, and this is an attempt at clarification. To me it makes about as much sense to have it there as to say he was an “English actor who was tall…” - yes it tells you something, but not anything that important. Jock123 (talk) 08:13, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  An English actor who went to Canada…??? 

message: If what is in this article is all he really did on TV, how did get a star - for television appearances - on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.183.15 (talk) 16:35, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: One of his last television appearances was on the Jonathan Winters Show in 1968, which I remember watching.  I believe it was their Halloween episode.  See IMDB's list for him under performances as Self. 75.172.158.191 (talk) 19:18, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV career? 

message: The real name of Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is "William Pratt" does anyone know if Joss Whedon have ever said something about Spike's name is an homeage to Karloff?--coq87rouge  —Preceding undated comment added 21:13, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy(?) 

message: "Boris" claimed that Karloff was a family name. Perhaps it was.  His daughter Sara Karloff "publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears, "Karloff" or otherwise". But who said Karloff was slavic?  Notably she did not deny that Karloff was a family name. The name was probably invented, but could have been a family name.  We do not know.  Is anyone aware of any genealogical work on the Pratt family?203.184.41.226 (talk) 21:30, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: "Dear Boris: The Life of William Henry Pratt a.k.a. Boris Karloff" by Cynthia Lindsay has an appendix concerning the Pratt family genealogy. However, the copyright date is 1974, so it is probably dated. BK's mother's maiden name was 'Millard', and no Karloff could be found in the family tree. CFLeon (talk) 00:36, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karloff name 

message: You say he married six times, but only five wives are listed. Valetude (talk) 14:00, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch! I found her. Ckruschke (talk) 03:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Still only 5 wives listed. BK was very secretive about his private life- the 5 wives number seems to have come from an interview when he married Dorothy Stine where he just mentioned that he had been married 3 times before. Cynthia Lyndsay could not find any conformation of a newspaper report by a Olive de Wilton (born 1898 Mar 25; died c 1972) who claimed she had been married to him in the years in Canada, and her obituary did not mention a marriage to Karloff either as Karloff or Pratt. To complicate matters, CL did find a record of a marriage licence taken out by WHP aboard ship on 1909 May 07- no name given for the wife and no record of a marriage performed. CFLeon (talk) 00:33, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Olive de Wilton was married to Herbert Warren Cluff between 1915 and 1932, so even if she and Karloff went through any ceremonies, there was never a lawful marriage.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.80.249 (talk) 20:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Six wives? 

message: The very first References link, #1, leads to an "error" page.
Someone needs to check this out and make whatever correction(s) are needed.
Thank you.  2600:8800:787:F500:C23F:D5FF:FEC5:89B6 (talk) 08:17, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  References link 

message: Details box says "Born
	William Henry Pratt
23 November 1887
Camberwell, Surrey, England"
Early life paragraph says "Karloff was born William Henry Pratt on 23 November 1887, at 36 Forest Hill Road, Dulwich, Surrey (now London), England." And an English heritage plaque is shown.
So which one is it, or are these different names of the same place? Laugh Tough (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a curious one as other sources say he was born at 15 Forest Hill Road, this includes the authoritative biography "More Than a Monster" by Stephen Jacobs, published in 2011 and already cited within the article for other claims. His ODNB entry does not give the full address as his birth certificate was not sourced as is normally the case for ODNB. I'll keep researching this one. Crisso (talk) 18:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  place of birth?