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Heavy metal band Black Sabbath started as a blues band called Earth, but changed their name after seeing the Boris Karloff horror film "Black Sabbath". They liked "that people paid money to be frightened".
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Boris Karloff does not sing, "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the famous Dr. Seuss film, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It was performed instead by Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony the Tiger. Thurl's role went completely uncredited. Boris won a Grammy for his performance.
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Boris Karloff, most famous for his role as Frankenstein's Monster, won only one major performance award in his career. He received a Grammy for his narration of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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From "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", Boris Karloff won a Spoken Word Grammy as both the Narrator and the Grinch. When voicing the Grinch, his voice was mechanically altered to remove the highs, resulting in a more gravely voice. This separated the Grinch's voice from the Narrator's voice.
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Boris Karloff a.k.a. William Pratt, who played Frankenstein’s monster in the original 1930’s Frankenstein trilogy dressed up as Father Christmas every Christmas beginning in 1940 and distributed presents to the physically disabled kids of a Baltimore hospital.
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Despite always portraying a villain, Boris Karloff was known for being a very kind man. He gave generously to children's charities and dressed up as Santa every Christmas to hand out presents to disabled children.
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Boris Karloff, the actor who played Frankenstein's monster in the original movies, dressed up as Father Christmas for disabled kids in a Baltimore hospital
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The walk of the first zombie seen in Night of the Living Dead was based on Boris Karloff's walk in The Walking Dead.
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Frankenstein was Boris Karloff's 81st movie. Until then, he had given up hope of being a leading actor.
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Boris Karloff's given name was William Henry Pratt. Also, his costume boots for Frankenstein's monster weighed 11lbs. each.
