Boris Karloff

Full filmography

• Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025) as Self - (archive footage)
• The Last Repair Shop (2024) as The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story (2022) as Self - Interviewee
• Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021) as Self (archive footage)
• True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015) as Self
• Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters (2015) as Self (archive footage)
• Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014) as Various roles (archive footage)
• A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B, Monologue 02) (2013) as Self (archive footage)
• Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored (2013) as Self (archive footage)
• The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features (2012)
• He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce (2008) as Self (archive footage)
• Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (2007) as Himself (archive footage)
• Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007) as Self (archive footage)
• Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2007) as Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
• Lugosi: The Dark Prince (2006) as Self (archive footage)
• Terror in the Tropics (2006) as Mr. Wong (archive footage)
• Karloff: The Gentle Monster (2006) as Self (archive footage)
• Monster Movie Trivia Quiz (2004)
• The Mesmerist (2003) as (archive footage)
• Heroes of Horror (2001) as (archive footage)
• The American Nightmare (2000) as Self
• The Many Faces of Dracula (2000) as The Monster (archive footage)
• Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (2000) as Self (archive footage)
• Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999) as Self (archive footage)
• The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999) as Self (archive footage)
• Universal Horror (1998) as (archive footage)
• The Universal Story (1996) as Self (archive footage)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994) as Self (archive footage)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition (1994) as (voice - archive footage)
• Dracula in the Movies (1992) as (archive footage)
• Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) as The Monster / Gustav Niemann / Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / etc.
• Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) as Doctor Gustav Niemann (archive footage)
• Halloween Monster Bash (1991) as Baron Von Leppe (archive footage)
• Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990) as (archive footage)
• Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990) as Archival
• Transylvania Twist (1989) as Man in Room (archive footage)
• Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988) as (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Creepy Classics (1987) as Dr. Scarabus - (archive footage)
• Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984) as (archive footage)
• The Horror of It All (1983) as Frankenstein / Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
• Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982) as Self (archive footage)
• Monsters on the March (and a Pair of Marvels!) (1980)
• The Horror Show (1979) as (archive footage)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) as Self (archive footage)
• Madhouse (1974) as (archive footage)
• The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974) as Self (archive footage)
• Isle of the Snake People (1971) as Carl van Molder / Damballah
• Alien Terror (1971) as Prof. John Mayer
• McCloud (1970) as Hjalmar Poelzig (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970) as Gorca (archive footage)
• The Name of the Game (1968) as Mikhail Orlov
• Macabre Serenade (1968) as Matthias Morteval
• The Movie Orgy (1968) as Self (archive footage)
• Targets (1968) as Byron Orlok
• Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) as Professor John Marsh
• Cauldron of Blood (1968) as Franz Badulescu
• Fear Chamber (1968) as Dr. Carl Mandel
• Mad Monster Party? (1967) as Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice)
• The Sorcerers (1967) as Prof. Marcus Monserrat
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) as Mother Muffin
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) as Narrator / The Grinch (voice)
• Doom of Dracula (1966) as The Madman (archive footage)
• The Venetian Affair (1966) as Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) as The Corpse
• The Daydreamer (1966) as The Rat (voice)
• The Wild Wild West (1965) as Mr. Singh
• Die, Monster, Die! (1965) as Nahum Witley
• Shindig! (1964) as Self - Guest Host / Singer
• Horror!!! (1964) as Self
• The Comedy of Terrors (1964) as Amos Hinchley
• Bikini Beach (1964) as Art Dealer
• Bikini Beach (1964) Thanks
• Today's Teens (1964) as Narrator
• A Fool's World (1964) as Narrator
• Black Sabbath (1963) as Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak")
• The Raven (1963) as Dr. Scarabus
• The Terror (1963) as Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe
• Out of This World (1962) as Host
• The Incredible Doktor Markesan (1962) as Dr. Konrad Markesan
• Arsenic & Old Lace (1962) as Jonathan Brewster
• Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962)
• Little Lost Robot (1962) as Host
• The Storm (1962)
• The Grim Reaper (1961) as Self
• Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961) as Self (archive footage)
• Thriller (1960) as Clayton Mace
• Thriller (1960) as Self - Host
• Thriller (1960) as Dr. Thorne
• Thriller (1960) as Dr. Albert Farnham
• Thriller (1960) as Pop Jenkins / Col. Jackson Beauregard Finchess
• Thriller (1960) as Doktor Konrad Markesan
• Route 66 (1960)
• The Fatal Impulse (1960) as Self
• Who Killed Chung Ling Soo? (1960) as Narrator
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) as Narrator (voice) / Father Knickerbocker
• The Veil (1958)
• Grip of the Strangler (1958) as James Rankin
• Corridors of Blood (1958) as Dr. Thomas Bolton
• Destination Nightmare (1958) as Host / Ira Perry / Pete Wade Sr. / Professor Charles Goncourt / Morgan Debs
• Heart of Darkness (1958) as Mr. Kurtz
• Jack the Ripper (1958) as Host / Capt. John Elwood / Jonas Atterbury / Dr. Francis Mason
• Frankenstein 1970 (1958) as Baron Viktor von Frankenstein
• Suspicion (1957) as Judge Winthrop Gelsey
• DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
• The Lux Show (1957) as Self
• Voodoo Island (1957) as Phillip Knight
• The Lark (1957) as Bishop Cauchon
• The Juggler of Our Lady (1957) as Narrator (voice)
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) as Self
• Telephone Time (1956)
• Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956) as Colonel March Of Scotland Yard
• The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956) as Self
• Rendezvous in Black (1956) as Ward Allen
• This Is Your Life (1955) as Self
• Sabaka (1955) as General Pollegar
• A Connecticut Yankee (1955) as King Arthur
• Sting of Death (1955) as Mr. Mycroft
• Climax! (1954) as Dr. Philip Nestri
• Climax! (1954) as Vicar Tellworth
• The George Gobel Show (1954) as Self
• The Island Monster (1954) as Don Gaetano
• The United States Steel Hour (1953) as George Redford
• General Electric Theater (1953) as Mr. Blue Ocean
• General Electric Theater (1953) as Henry E. Church
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
• Colonel March Investigates (1953) as Colonel March
• The Black Castle (1952) as Dr. Meissen
• The Red Skelton Show (1951) as Professor Townsend
• Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Cauchon
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Jonathan Brewster
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as Charles Brandon
• The Strange Door (1951) as Voltan
• Down You Go (1951) as Self
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) as Bennett Kimball
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
• What's My Line? (1950) as Self
• Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Sir Arthur Strangeways
• Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Montgomery Royle
• Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Larkin
• Lights Out (1949)
• Suspense (1949) as Toff
• Suspense (1949)
• Suspense (1949) as Bronson
• Suspense (1949) as Rasputin
• Starring Boris Karloff (1949)
• Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) as Swami Talpur
• Studio One (1948) as Skaggs
• Studio One (1948) as Professor Koernig
• Studio One (1948) as King Arthur
• Tap Roots (1948) as Tishomingo
• Unconquered (1947) as Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) as Dr. Hollingshead
• Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) as Gruesome
• Lured (1947) as Charles van Druten
• Bedlam (1946) as George Sims
• The Body Snatcher (1945) as John Gray
• Isle of the Dead (1945) as Gen. Nikolas Pherides
• House of Frankenstein (1944) as Dr. Gustav Niemann
• The Mummy's Curse (1944) as Kharis in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
• The Climax (1944) as Dr. Friedrich Hohner
• The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) as Prof. Nathaniel Billings
• Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942) as Himself
• The Devil Commands (1941) as Dr. Julian Blair
• Information Please: Series 2, No. 12 (1941) as Self
• Before I Hang (1940) as Dr. John Garth
• The Mummy's Hand (1940) as Kharis (archive footage / uncredited)
• Black Friday (1940) as Dr. Ernest Sovac
• The Man with Nine Lives (1940) as Dr. Leon Kravaal
• The Ape (1940) as Dr. Bernard Adrian
• The Fatal Hour (1940) as James Lee Wong
• You'll Find Out (1940) as Judge Spencer Mainwaring
• Doomed to Die (1940) as James Lee Wong
• Son of Frankenstein (1939) as The Monster
• Devil's Island (1939) as Dr. Charles Gaudet
• Tower of London (1939) as Mord
• The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) as Dr. Henryk Savaard
• British Intelligence (1939) as Valdar
• Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) as Mr. James Lee Wong
• The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939) as James Lee Wong
• Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) as James Lee Wong
• The Invisible Menace (1938) as Jevries
• Breakdowns of 1937 (1937) as Self
• Night Key (1937) as David Mallory
• Cinema Circus (1937) as Himself
• West of Shanghai (1937) as "General" Wu Yen Fang
• The Walking Dead (1936) as John Ellman
• Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) as Gravelle
• The Invisible Ray (1936) as Dr. Janos Rukh
• Juggernaut (1936) as Dr. Victor Sartorius
• The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) as Dr. Laurence
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935) as The Monster
• Hollywood Hobbies (1935) as Himself
• The Black Room (1935) as Baron Gregor de Berghman / Anton de Berghman
• The Raven (1935) as Edmond Bateman
• The Lost Patrol (1934) as Sanders
• The Black Cat (1934) as Hjalmar Poelzig
• The House of Rothschild (1934) as Count Ledrantz
• Screen Snapshots No. 11 (1934) as Himself
• Gift of Gab (1934) as Himself
• The Ghoul (1933) as Prof. Morlant
• Scarface (1932) as Gaffney
• The Mummy (1932) as Imhotep / Ardath Bey
• The Old Dark House (1932) as Morgan
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) as Dr. Fu Manchu
• Skyscraper Souls (1932) as Man Approaching Ticket Counter
• Business and Pleasure (1932) as Sheik Ali-Ben Joseph
• Behind the Mask (1932) as Jim Henderson
• The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932) as Boris Karloff
• Night World (1932) as 'Happy' MacDonald
• The Miracle Man (1932) as Nikko
• Boo (1932) as Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein")
• Frankenstein (1931) as The Monster
• Cracked Nuts (1931) as Boris - First Revolutionary
• King of the Wild (1931) as Mustapha
• Five Star Final (1931) as T. Vernon Isopod
• Smart Money (1931) as Sport Williams
• The Yellow Ticket (1931) as Drunken Orderly
• Tonight or Never (1931) as Waiter
• Young Donovan's Kid (1931) as Cokey Joe
• The Vanishing Legion (1931) as The Voice (voice)
• The Mad Genius (1931) as Fedor's Father (uncredited)
• The Public Defender (1931) as The Professor
• The Criminal Code (1931) as Ned Galloway
• I Like Your Nerve (1931) as Luigi - Pacheco's Butler
• The Guilty Generation (1931) as Tony Ricca
• Graft (1931) as Terry
• The Bad One (1930) as Monsieur Gaston
• The Sea Bat (1930) as Corsican
• The Utah Kid (1930) as Henchman Baxter
• The King of the Kongo (1929) as Scarface Macklin
• The Unholy Night (1929) as Abdul Mohammed Bey - the Hindu Lawyer (uncredited)
• The Fatal Warning (1929) as Mullins
• Behind That Curtain (1929) as Beetham's Manservent
• Two Sisters (1929) as Cecil
• Anne Against the World (1929)
• The Phantom of the North (1929) as Jules Gregg
• The Devil's Chaplain (1929) as Boris
• Burning the Wind (1929) as Pug Doran
• Sharp Shooters (1928) as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
• The Vanishing Rider (1928) as The Villain
• The Little Wild Girl (1928) as Maurice Kent
• Vultures of the Sea (1928) as Grouchy
• Soft Cushions (1927) as The Chief Conspirator
• The Meddlin' Stranger (1927) as Al Meggs
• Let It Rain (1927) as Crook
• Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) as Owaza
• The Phantom Buster (1927) as Ramon
• Two Arabian Knights (1927) as Purser
• The Love Mart (1927) as Fleming
• The Princess from Hoboken (1927) as Pavel
• The Greater Glory (1926) as Scissors Grinder
• The Eagle of the Sea (1926) as Pirate (uncredited)
• Her Honor, the Governor (1926) as Snipe Collins
• The Man in the Saddle (1926) as Robber (uncredited)
• The Bells (1926) as The Mesmerist
• Old Ironsides (1926) as Saracen Guard (uncredited)
• The Nickel-Hopper (1926) as Dance Hall Masher
• The Golden Web (1926) as Dave Sinclair
• Flaming Fury (1926) as Gaspard
• Flames (1926) as Blackie Blanchette
• Perils of the Wild (1925)
• The Prairie Wife (1925) as Diego
• Forbidden Cargo (1925) as Pietro Castillano
• Without Mercy (1925) as Madame Gordon's 2nd Henchman (uncredited)
• Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
• Lady Robinhood (1925) as Cabraza
• Parisian Nights (1925) as Pierre
• Riders of the Plains (1924)
• The Hellion (1924) as The Outlaw
• The White Panther (1924) as Shere Ali's Aide (as Karloff Boris)
• Dynamite Dan (1924) as Tony Garcia
• The Prisoner (1923) as Prince Kapolski
• Omar the Tentmaker (1922) as Imam Mowaffak
• Nan of the North (1922) as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
• The Infidel (1922) as The Nabob
• The Woman Conquers (1922) as Raoul Maris
• The Man from Downing Street (1922) as Maharajah Jehan
• The Altar Stairs (1922) as Hugo
• Without Benefit of Clergy (1921) as Ahmed Khan
• The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921) as Priest of Kama-Sita / Dakar
• Cheated Hearts (1921) as Nei Hamid
• The Cave Girl (1921) as Baptiste
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920) as Indian (uncredited)
• The Woman and the Puppet (1920) as (uncredited)
• The Deadlier Sex (1920) as Jules Borney
• The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920) as Tavish
• His Majesty, the American (1919) as Henchman in cloth cap
• The Lightning Raider (1919)
• The Prince and Betty (1919) as Undetermined Role
• Suspense: A Night at an Inn as Toff