Dwight Iliff Fry
| Sign | Pisces |
| Born | Feb 22, 1899 Salina, KS |
| Died | Nov 7, 1943 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | Died at 44 |
Dwight Frye | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1922-43 |
| Top Roles | Fouquet's Valet, Karl, Reporter, Renfield, Rudi |
| Top Genres | Drama, Horror, Crime, Action, Science Fiction, Adventure |
| Top Topics | Monster, Book-Based, Mad Scientists |
| Top Collaborators | James Whale (Director), Lionel Belmore, Mary Gordon, Béla Lugosi |
| Shares birthday with | Robert Young, George Haight, Fannie Ward see more.. |
Dwight Frye Overview:
Character actor, Dwight Frye, was born Dwight Iliff Fry on Feb 22, 1899 in Salina, KS. Frye died at the age of 44 on Nov 7, 1943 in Hollywood, CA .
MINI BIO:
Small, dapper American actor whose dark-haired, fresh-faced looks seemed to qualify him for lounge lizards. But there was a hint of anguish about the features that drew directors of horror films and bizarre thrillers to cast him in featured roles. The grotesques that resulted were often genuinely frightening, and his pathetic, chilling Renfield in the 1930 Dracula has never been bettered. Died from a heart attack.
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BlogHub Articles:
‘SOME ’S OR NAISHED’?
By Terry on Dec 5, 2019 From Stardust and Shadowsn The Horror pictures of the Golden age are could be like ?Diner food’ to? ‘ serious film goers or? Movie gourmets.’? If that is? so then? side dishes you get with a? diner meal add to the being filled up.? If the lead actors and central story are the ‘meat ‘ of the p... Read full article
‘SOME ’S OR NAISHED’?
By Terry Sherwood on Nov 4, 2014 From Nitrate from the GraveThe Horror pictures of the Golden age are like ?Diner food’ to ?some’ serious film goers or Movie gourmets. If that is so then side dishes you get with a diner meal add to the being filled up. If the lead actors and central story are the ‘meat ‘ of the picture then those that... Read full article
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Dwight Frye Quotes:
Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.
Wilmer Cook: Well, make him lay off me or I'll fog him and nothing'll stop me.
Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.
Van Helsing: Doing them?
Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red,l ike his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"
Van Helsing: What did he want you to do?
Renfield: That which has already been done!
[giggles sinisterly]
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