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Vincent Price
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Betty Davis
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Bela Lugosi
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04-04-2004, 10:56 AM
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Bela Lugosi
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04-08-2004, 10:19 AM
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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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04-12-2004, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom
VINCENT PRICE!!! The dude could do it without props and fake fangs. And THAT voice!........
But the best is Tim Burton's clay animation of "The Boy who wanted to be Vincent Price.
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06-02-2004, 03:02 AM
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vincent rocks thought u lot might want 2 no dat
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07-13-2004, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Nike
I really miss Max Schreck in your list.....and Kinski....Kinski, of course is not a typical old horror movie actor, but anyway, those 2 are my favorites.
For those who have never heard of Max Schreck:
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Oh, deffinitely! Some people thought he was actually a vampire... they made another movie out of that fact called Shadow of The Vampire ,that was more darkly funny than scarry.
Speaking of siglent horror films, does anyone know the names of the actors in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
I voted for Bela- Absolutely gorgeous (and not just his acting!)
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08-06-2004, 02:24 AM
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I would have to go with Vincent Price. His unmistakable voice gets him recognition alone and he has appeared in the most horror movies, at least as a lead he has.
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08-07-2004, 03:59 PM
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I would say that all the poll choices are great, but I also have to say that I would have voted for Peter Cushing if he were on the list. I am also fond of Forrest Tucker and Kevin McCarthy.
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09-11-2004, 06:02 AM
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Of the ones listed in the poll, there could be only one choice for me: Bella.
Others faves of mine:
Christopher Lee
Boris Karloff
Max Schrek
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09-11-2004, 12:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Colorado
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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Originally Posted by Jane13
Speaking of silent horror films, does anyone know the names of the actors in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
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The narrator, a student who makes the near-fatal error of attending a carnival with his best friend, Francis (Friedrich Feher)
Best friend, Alan (Hans Heinrich).
Man with a cabinet, Dr. Caligari (Werner Kraus)
The beautiful Jane (Lil Dagover).
Jane's father, Dr. Olsen (Rudolph Lettinger)
Skinny somnambulist guy in a black unitard, Cesare (Conrad Veidt)
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09-12-2004, 10:14 AM
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Thanks for the info, OmmaDawn!
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06-08-2005, 10:25 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Francisco, California.
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Re: Your Favourite Old Horror Movie Actors.
Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre [the Christopher Walken of his time] & Max Shreck.
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06-08-2005, 10:30 PM
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I was very suprised Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff weren't in the Poll.
Regardless, Vincent Price, without a doubt. Vincent and Peter Lorre made a great Comedy team in Comedy of Terror, they were like a demented Abbot & Costello. Which brings me to Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Vincent's Voice had a cameo in that, right at the end.
I think I'm dizzy now....
Lon Chaney Jr. sucked. I prefer my Horror Actors with a little less whine. :wink:
The Max Schrek Nosferatu, creepiest film of all time. My wife found (& bought) a video of that with a soundtrack by Type O Negative!!! (mostly Bloody Kisses, maybe a few Slow Deep & Hard...) but one of the only ways the film even could have been made better.
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06-10-2005, 06:03 PM
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ever seen the 1979 "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht" ?
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06-10-2005, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Morbideus
I was very suprised Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff weren't in the Poll.
Regardless, Vincent Price, without a doubt. Vincent and Peter Lorre made a great Comedy team in Comedy of Terror, they were like a demented Abbot & Costello. Which brings me to Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Vincent's Voice had a cameo in that, right at the end.
I think I'm dizzy now....
Lon Chaney Jr. sucked. I prefer my Horror Actors with a little less whine. :wink:
The Max Schrek Nosferatu, creepiest film of all time. My wife found (& bought) a video of that with a soundtrack by Type O Negative!!! (mostly Bloody Kisses, maybe a few Slow Deep & Hard...) but one of the only ways the film even could have been made better. |
While Jr. may not have been great there can be no doubt of the excellent acting abilities of Lon Chaney Sr.
I have that very same Nosferatu with TON soundtrack. In fact I created a thread about it, but it died of old age. I love watching it with the accompaniment of a heavy rainstorm. I believe that the music is from Slow, Deep & Hard, October Rust & Bloody Kisses. I fell in love with the song Love You to Death when I watched that movie.
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06-13-2005, 02:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Deadhymn
ever seen the 1979 "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht" ?
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Is that the Klaus Kinski one? If so I own it, but haven't watched it in a while... Good though, the atmosphere and connection tot eh plague was brilliant. If it wasn't the Klaus Kinski one, then what was it?
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While Jr. may not have been great there can be no doubt of the excellent acting abilities of Lon Chaney Sr.
I have that very same Nosferatu with TON soundtrack. In fact I created a thread about it, but it died of old age. I love watching it with the accompaniment of a heavy rainstorm. I believe that the music is from Slow, Deep & Hard, October Rust & Bloody Kisses. I fell in love with the song Love You to Death when I watched that movie.
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I agree about Chaney Sr., 
I missed the Nostferatu/TON thread. I'll have to watch the movie again, I thought it was done pre-Rust, but I'll take your word for it.
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06-13-2005, 11:46 AM
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It was the Kinski film. BEAUTIFUL women in that movie...
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06-13-2005, 10:37 PM
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Ahh.... the main thing I remember from that movie was the scenery. Staggering.
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06-23-2005, 09:25 AM
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I didn't like the 70's remake so much... but to be fair, Expressionist film makers looked at their work in an entirely different light than modern filmmakers- they saw their movies as artwork and the motion picture was their new canvas. It was esentially making moving paintings to people like F.W.Murnau... and that's all the illusion of motion on screen is, anyway. Oh-well. My German teacher rented te 70's version for us to watch on Halloween last year, which was pretty much the coolest thing any of my teachers did
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06-24-2005, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Morbideus
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Originally Posted by WolfMoon
While Jr. may not have been great there can be no doubt of the excellent acting abilities of Lon Chaney Sr.
I have that very same Nosferatu with TON soundtrack. In fact I created a thread about it, but it died of old age. I love watching it with the accompaniment of a heavy rainstorm. I believe that the music is from Slow, Deep & Hard, October Rust & Bloody Kisses. I fell in love with the song Love You to Death when I watched that movie.
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I agree about Chaney Sr.,
I missed the Nostferatu/TON thread. I'll have to watch the movie again, I thought it was done pre-Rust, but I'll take your word for it.
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No it's definately 'Love you to Death' at the begining, then 'Red Water'.
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06-26-2005, 11:35 PM
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No it's definately 'Love you to Death' at the begining, then 'Red Water'.
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Yep, you were right, we watched it over the weekend... I will never question your TON knowledge again... :wink:
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11-12-2005, 12:46 AM
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1. Vincent Price (Theatre of Blood, the Abominable Dr. Phibes)
2. Bela Lugosi (Dracula, The Black Cat)
3. Boris Karloff (The Mummy and Frankenstein)
4. Lon Chaney Sr. (London After Midnight and Phantom of the Opera)
5. Werner Kraus (Old silent film German actor, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
6. Max Schreck (Nosferatu - silent film)
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01-28-2006, 04:51 PM
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Boris Karloff
Bela Legosi
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney jr
Christopher Lee
Peter cushing
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01-28-2006, 09:04 PM
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Vincent fucking Price owns.
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01-28-2006, 10:48 PM
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Who was the girl in Psycho?
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01-29-2006, 12:11 PM
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Who was the girl in Psycho?
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Janet Leigh Played `Marion` in Psycho (1960) .
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