Mr. Wong, Detective is a 1938 American crime film directed by William Nigh and starring who, was an English actor who was primarily known for his typecast roles in horror films that depicted the characters Frankenstein and the Mummy?
Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his typecast roles in horror films that depicted the characters Frankenstein and the Mummy. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in "Frankenstein" (1931), "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), which resulted in his immense popularity. He also appeared as Imhotep in "The Mummy" (1932).
List of horror films of the 1940s A list of horror films released in the 1940s. After the success of "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), Universal horror caught a second wind and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid-1940s. The early 1940s saw the debut of Lon Chaney Jr. and "The Wolf Man", both of which became fixtures in the Universal landscape. Meanwhile, Dracula and Frankenstein's monster appeared in numerous sequels, often together in what was colloquially called "monster rally" films.