Bela Lugosi (inset), Boris Karloff (inset), Basil Rathbone. THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1942. Image Credit: Everett Collection Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr. I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, 1957.

Basil Rathbone is the “Son of Frankenstein,” as if dear old dad wasn’t bad enough. The younger Frankenstein returns to the family castle (always a bad move) ...

Dir. Rowland V. Lee (1939). The third installment of Universal’s Frankenstein is distinguished by its supporting players—Karloff’s monster is resurrected by Basil Rathbone’s eponymous ...

Heart of Paris (Tri-National). Ingenious French comedy which, starting where so many screen plays end, with a courtroom scene, shows what happens to a beautiful girl after she has been acquitted of ...

The 1939 film Son of Frankenstein starred Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein Sharon Ruston Bodleian Library Publishing IN 1817, the natural philosopher ...

Mr. Rathbone was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone on June 13, 1892, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of a British engineer. His mother was a descendant of King Henry IV.