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: Oh, it's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage and... Well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula: I bid you welcome.
[Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling]
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
[Dracula goes up the steps and waits for Renfield, who, without difficulty, cuts open a hole in a huge spider's web using his walking stick]
Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield: Why, er... yes.
Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?
Renfield: DRACULA?... I never even heard the name before
Renfield: [overhearing Van Helsing discussing vampires] Isn't this a strange conversation, for people who aren't crazy?
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