Boris Karloff at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

We would like to thank our friends at the The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter for allowing us to digitally showcase a collection of materials relating to Boris Karloff.

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain. They are both an accredited public museum and an academic research facility and hold a collection of over 85,000 items. Over 1,000 of their items are on display in the galleries and are available to be viewed by the public.

Credit: All items are exhibited here courtesy of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter.

Karloff magazine

Magazine of black and white stills from productions featuring Boris Karloff. Also contains a brief introductory biography and filmography from 1919 - 1968.

Item number #1182

Frankenstein novel

A tie-in re-release of Shelley's novel with a cover bearing Boris Karloff.

Item number #20477

Boris Karloff: Tales of Mystery comic

A copy of Boris Karloff: Tales of Mystery #60 from 1963.

Item number #21878

Boris Karloff comic album

A dedicated Boris Karloff comic album c. 1960s.

Item number #32536

Taken from Castle of Frankenstein Annual Yearbook 1967

Item number #42077

Tales of Terror

Tales of Terror, edited and with an introduction by Boris Karloff, 1945.

Item number #45440

Boris Karloff's bust

A painted polystone bust of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster from Universal's 1931 production of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale. This collectible publicity item is from a set of three given away to celebrate the release of the Universal Monsters DVD gift set in 2004.

Item number #48474

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