Dwight Frye

Movie Actor

Dwight Frye was born in Kansas, United States on February 22nd, 1899 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 44, Dwight Frye biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Dwight Iliff Fyre
Date of Birth
February 22, 1899
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Kansas, United States
Death Date
Nov 7, 1943 (age 44)
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor
Dwight Frye Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 44 years old, Dwight Frye has this physical status:

Height
169cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Light brown
Eye Color
Not Available
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Dwight Frye Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christian Science
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Not Available
Dwight Frye Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Laura Mae Bullivant (1928-43)
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Not Available
Dwight Frye Career

Early life and career

Frye was born in Salina, Kansas, and studied for a career in music and performed first as a concert pianist. He made his name as a stage actor in the 1920s, often in comedies. He appeared in 1924 as Son in a Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Although he had few small comedic appearances in silent films, sound Frye soon became known for playing villains. Nicknamed "The Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare" and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths" and "The Man with the Unbalanced Characters, he specialized in portraying physically incapacitated characters, including his role in Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula.

He appeared in Frankenstein later that year as the hunchbacked assistant. In the first film version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (1931), Frye portrayed Wilmer Cook (the "gunsel" in 1931. He appeared in the horror film The Vampire Bat (1933), in which he played Herman, a half-wit accused of being a killer. He appeared in The Invisible Man (1933) as a reporter and in Dr. Crespi (1935).

He appeared in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The original script was much more substantial; some of Frye's additional scenes were part of a plot, but it was cut to shorten the running time and appease the censors. E. E. Clive's one of the deleted scenes was a scene of Karl killing a Burgomaster. Except for still photos included in a Universal Studios DVD edition of the film, nothing remains of those scenes. He appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); another appearance in Son of Frankenstein (1939) was postponed until publication. He appeared in two films starring James Cagney (1930) as a hit man and Something to Sing About (1937), as a tiffy hairdresser.

Frye changed between film roles and stage appearances in a variety of productions from comedies to musicals, as well as appearing in a stage version of Dracula in the early 1940s. During World War II, he contributed to the war effort by working nights as a tool designer for Lockheed Aircraft.

Frye died of a heart attack while riding a bus in Hollywood on November 7, 1943, just a few days before he was scheduled to begin filming Wilson. In Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, he is laid to rest.

Alice Cooper, an American rock band, wrote and recorded a tribute track to Dwight Frye (intentionally removing the last "e) from the original list of "Love It to Death). This song will be performed on stage with Cooper in a straitjacket attempting to escape and then breaking free at the end of the song to strangle the nurse with the ties.

The photographic likeness of Dwight Frye in one of his booths appears on Devil Doll's 1990 album, Eliogabalus.

The Last of the Big Time Suspenders, SNFU's 1991 compilation album, includes artwork by Dwight Frye as his "Renfield" character on the front page.

Source

In this comedic Dracula version, Renfield teaser Nicholas Cage drinks blood and is smokin's to a point

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2023
In a new teaser for Renfield, Nicholas Cage put his own kooky and unique spin on the normally frightening Dracula. In the aftermath of sucking blood from the necks of unsuspecting young virgins, blood was sipped from a martini glass while still channeling the main characteristics of the bloodthirsty undead, centuries-old vampire. Exposure to sunlight led him to fire, but not before he could deliver a zingy one-liner to his long-suffering servant R. M. Renfield, played by Nicholas Holt.