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 .

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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.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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‘SOME ’S OR NAISHED’?

By Terry Sherwood on Nov 4, 2014 From Nitrate from the Grave

The 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: You know too much to live, Van Helsing!


Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?
Renfield: DRACULA?... I never even heard the name before


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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Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Graceland section.

Father of Dwight David Frye.

In 1971, the original Alice Cooper Group, being greatly inspired by Frye's "Renfield" character in Dracula (1931), further immortalized him in their song "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" (without the "e"). The nearly seven-minute conceptual composition appears on their "Love It To Death" album.

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