Dwight Frye

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-02-22 (44 years old)

Deathday

1943-11-07

Place of Birth

Salina, Kansas, USA

Dwight Frye

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Frye was born in Salina, Kansas. Nicknamed "The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare," and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths," he specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters, including his signature role, the madman Renfield in Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula. Later that same year he also played the hunchbacked assistant in the film Frankenstein. (This character, named Fritz, is often mis...

Acting

1931

Dracula

as Renfield

1931

Frankenstein

as Fritz

1942

The Ghost of Frankenstein

as Villager at Meeting / Grave Robber (flashback) (uncredited)

1943

1930

The Doorway to Hell

as Monk, Gangster

1928

The Night Bird

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1931

The Maltese Falcon

as Wilmer Cook

1943

Dead Men Walk

as Zolarr

1933

The Vampire Bat

as Herman Gleib

1937

Sea Devils

as SS Paradise Radio Operator (uncredited)

1938

Think It Over

as Arsonist

2000

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Renfield (archive footage)

1991

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Fritz / Karl (archive footage)

1938

Sinners in Paradise

as Marshall (uncredited)

1937

The Shadow

as Vindecco

1930

Man to Man

as Vint Glade

1936

1943

Submarine Alert

as Haldine (uncredited)

1935

Atlantic Adventure

as Spike Jonas

1938

Fast Company

as Sidney Z. Wheeler

1943

1938

The Night Hawk

as John Colley

1937

The Man Who Found Himself

as Hysterical patient

1936

1927

Upstream

as Theatre Audience Spectator

1939

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Fouquet's Valet

1940

Drums of Fu Manchu

as Prof. Anderson

1940

Sky Bandits

as Speavy

1941

Mystery Ship

as Rader

1938

Adventure in Sahara

as Gravet, 'the Jackal'

1932

A Strange Adventure

as Robert Wayne

1940

1937

Something to Sing About

as Mr. Easton (makeup supervisor)

1940

Phantom Raiders

as Eddie Anders

1926

Exit Smiling

as Balcony Heckler (uncredited)

1933

The Invisible Man

as Reporter (uncredited)

1938

1940

The Son of Monte Cristo

as Pavlov's Secretary (Uncredited)

1932

Attorney for the Defense

as James Wallace

1943

Dangerous Blondes

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

1941

Flying Blind

as Leo Qualen

1932

The Western Code

as Dick Loomis

1941

Devil Pays Off

as Radio Operator

1936

Florida Special

as Jenkins

1935

The Great Impersonation

as Roger Unthank (uncredited)

1931

Drácula

as Renfield (archive footage) (uncredited)

1931

The Black Camel

as Jessop the Butler (uncredited)

1942

Don't Talk

as Ziggy (uncredited)

1998

Universal Horror

as (archive footage)

1932

By Whose Hand?

as Chick Lewis

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