Boris Karloff has avoided the film industry entirely.
Boris Karloff . He also appeared as Imhotep in The Mummy ( 1932 ) . Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and adapted from the play by Peggy Webling ( which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley ) , about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity , but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal , murderer 's brain . The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund . The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons ( 104 episodes ) from September 17 , 1965 to April 4 , 1969 .