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My favourite was up on the list - Vincent Price. What an actor! What a voice! I'll watch anything that he's in, whether its a horror movie or not.
Glad that Peter Lorre was mentioned. I saw "M" over a decade ago - so very powerful a performace. I heard a little story about Peter - one afternoon a senior Nazi party official informed him that he was Hitler's favourite actor - that evening he was on the train to Paris - and on a boat to America the day after.
Peter Cushing was a beautiful man, with a beautiful voice, and apparently one of the nicest people you could wish to meet - so was Karloff - except he was in the habit of boring people crapless by showing them pictures of his grandchildren.
I'm surprised that no-one mentioned Todd Slaughter - admittedly he was an old ham, but he had his moments; the confession scene in "Maria Marten - the Story of the Red Barn" being one of them.
I also love Claude Rains: he made a movie about a murderous mistress with Bette Davis - but I can't remember the title offhand.
I's also like to give a heads-up to Conrad Veidt and Dwight Frye. Not horror film actors as such, but both famous for performances in a horror film. "Das Kabinet der Caligari" and "Dracula" respectively. OOOh Conrad - Pete Murphy wishes he was you!
Does anyone remember Una O'Connor? She was the crazy old lady in many an old horror movie. Or Ernest Thesiger? he was much the same thing.
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