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Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Can you imagine? Learning she was Peter Lorre's daughter, they just let her go. I think he'd be great as Igor. The The earliest basis for Igor lies in characterizations by Dwight Frye in two 1931 Universal movies. Peter Lorre played various characters of either eastern european or middle east background in american films. )3) I’m guessing that at some point during the 1950s or 1960s, when entertainers trying to get a cheap laugh did a LOT of Peter Lorre impressions, somebody did a comedy sketch about Dr. Frankenstein in his lab and whoever was playing the lab assistant did a Peter Lorre impression, and that became a thing.

Anyway, I had always thought Peter Lorre had played some sort of Igor-like role as the sidekick of a mad scientist, and he would always call the scientist "master". I've been watching the original Frankenstein movies, and was a little surprised to find out there wasn't an Igor sidekick until the third one, "Son of Frankenstein", with Ygor played by Bela Lugosi. Dwight played Fritz, Dr. Frankenstein's lab assistant, in the famous 1931 Universal film, a role that morphed into various incarnations in later Frankenstein pictures, notably Ygor in "Son of Frankenstein" (memorably played by Bela Lugosi. But Lugosi was great.Probably true, but I wasn't thinking of "Ygor" but of "Igor", the cartoony character.

It was sort of an amalgam of horror and old dark house thriller thing, top drawer Winters, with the '36 Chevy stuck in the mud, the bridge is out, and so the traveler goes to the nearest gothic castle where he meets Winters (who's playing all the roles) in Boris Karloff mode, as a mad doctor, who at one point says to his assistant, "Ygor, fetch the princess!".

He's a wimpy little creep. Mr. Lugosi helps many social organizations, religious organizations all tied up with the future welfare of the people, and he is president of the Hungarian Council for Democracy, in which many leading American of Hungarian descent are active". The original of that type of character in the movies, in FRANKENSTEIN, was indeed named Fritz. Catharine was the only child of actor Peter Lorre and Anne Marie Brenning Lorre. Biographie. "Hmmmm.......check Donald Glut's Frankenstein catalog. Boris Karloff is PERFECT as being Frankenstein. A terrific & magnetic speaking in English in 1944-- imagine what he could do in his prime. Cox's hearse is equipped with a TV on which he watches TOM & JERRY cartoons and an oversized hanging picture of Bela Lugosi in one of his vampire roles.Whoever said THAT? ""Sounds like me first thing every morning as I sit in front of my computer before I get a "jolt" of my first sip of morning tea! When did Lorre ever specifically play a hunchback assistant, and when did peop The character does not appear in the original 1818 Mary Shelley novel. When did Lorre ever specifically play a hunchback assistant, and when did people first start calling Fritz-type characters "Igor", or "Ygor"?"

He could be very menacing. Where the hell did the Peter Lorre/Igor/Hunchback stereotype come from?

This was probably my first introduction to the Ygor hunch-back lab assistant stereotype.Talk about abject lessons in the importance of spell check... sorry about all the typos why up at the top of this thread~!I think the incorrect Ygor/ Fritz identification problem might be as simple as the fact that the name YGOR is more memorable to the general public than FRITZ, and has a more 'horrific' ring to it.This website uses cookies for functionality, analytics and advertising purposes as described in our Boris & Bela & Lon - Latest Stills, Candids, and More! The one I just watched, with heavy finger on FAST-FORWARD, was no better or worse than the rest, but it's worth a mention here: "Who Killed Purity Mather?," written by Harlan Ellison, about the murder of a witch, complete with weird ceremony, pet crow, hooded figures, Janet Blair (who'd recently done BURN WITCH BURN) as a nudist, Nancy Kovack in a bizarre role as Girl Girl (sic), Richard Reeves as a chauffeur named Gorgo, and Wally Cox as a vampire who hangs out in a hearse outside a movie theater showing horror movies; when Burke (Gene Barry) tells suspect Cox not to leave town, Cox responds that he couldn't if he wanted to, that he must return every dawn to his native soil. He is introduced as "an American citizen, an American patriot, a Catholic, a Democrat, a man who is interested in helping to bring real liberation to his native land, Hungary. Der Verlorene (The Lost One) Pandaemonium and the Late Great Creature. Bitterness and nihilism, the syndromes of some in similar positions, seem to have been alien to his nature. Catharine nearly fell victim to "Hillside Stranglers" Angelo J. Buono and Kenneth A. Bianchi, who approached her one night in 1977 intending to abduct and murder her as they had and would do to ten women before the law caught up with them.