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Biography: Glenn Strange

A New Mexican of Native American extraction, actor Glenn Strange held down several rough-and-tumble jobs, from deputy sheriff to rodeo rider, before settling on a singing career. He made his radio bow on Los Angeles station KNX (the CBS-owned affiliate) as a member of the Arizona Wranglers singing group. Thanks to his husky physique and plug-ugly features, Strange had no trouble finding work as a stuntman/villain in western films and serials. He also displayed a flair for comedy as the sidekick to singing cowboy Dick Foran in a series of B-sagebrushers of the late '30s. During the war years, Strange became something of a bargain-basement Lon Chaney Jr., playing homicidal halfwits in a handful of horror pictures made at PRC and other low-budget studios. These appearances led to his being cast as the Frankenstein monster in the 1944 Universal programmer House of Frankenstein; he was coached in this role by the "creature" from the original 1931 Frankenstein, Boris Karloff. Given very little to do in House of Frankenstein and the 1945 sequel House of Dracula other than stalk around with arms outstretched at fadeout time, Strange brought none of the depth and pathos to the role that distinguished Karloff's appearances. Strange was shown to better advantage in his last appearance as The Monster in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) where he convincingly menaced the eternally frightened Lou Costello and even indulged in a couple of time-honored "scare" routines, while still remaining in character (Some scenes had to be reshot because Strange couldn't stop laughing at Costello's antics; towards the end of shooting, Strange broke his ankle and had to be replaced in a few shots by Lon Chaney Jr., who was costarring in the film as the Wolf Man). Though typecast as heavies in both movies and television -- he played the hissable Butch Cavendish in the Lone Ranger TV pilot -- Strange was well known throughout Hollywood as a genuine nice guy and solid family man. Glenn Strange's last engagement of note was his 11-year run (1962-73) as Sam, the Long Branch bartender on TV's Gunsmoke. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Cast: Lou Costello Vincent Price Bud Abbott Bela Lugosi
Tags: Horror Comedy Creature Film Slapstick Comedy
Length: 83min
It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a "simple, pliable" brain with which to reactivate Frankenstein's creature (Glenn Strange). The "ideal" brain belongs to the...
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Master Minds (1949)
Cast: Huntz Hall Leo Gorcey Jean Yarbrough
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 64min
When in doubt, drag out the "old dark house/mad scientist" formula. That's the philosophy of Master Minds, the 16th entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series. It all begins when Sach (Huntz Hall), suffering from a toothache, develops the ability to...
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The Contender (1944)
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 63min
In this drama, a truck driver will do almost anything to keep his son in a prestigious military academy. To pay the tuition, the trucker becomes a prizefighter. Unfortunately the pugilist is drug down by booze and a gold-digging blond. His friends...
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The Kid Rides Again (1943)
Tags: B-Western Western Action
Length: 55min
In this western, Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of the pokey and hits the dusty trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers an outlaw band...
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Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
Tags: Western B-Western
Length: 59min
Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and Al St. John as his comic sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones. In this outing, a bandit posing as Billy manages to pin several crimes on Our Hero....
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White Stallion (1947)
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 54min
Having drunk his way out of most of the major studios and not a few of the minor ones, cowboy star Ken Maynard had trouble finding work in the 1940s. Independent producer Walt Mattox came to the rescue in 1944 when he cast Maynard opposite young...
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The Mad Monster (1942)
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 77min
Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most psychotic of all the mad doctors George Zucco. The British-born character actor plays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited -- and...
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House of Dracula (1945)
Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr. John Carradine Lionel Atwill George Robinson Erle C. Kenton
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 67min
This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed as the final entry in the studio's B-horror cycle. Onslow Stevens plays psychiatrist Dr. Edelman, who suddenly has a thriving...
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Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe Al St. John Dave "Tex" O'Brien Sam Newfield
Tags: B-Western Western Comedy Action
Length: 62min
Buster Crabbe makes his first appearance as frontier do-gooder Billy Carson in PRC's Billy the Kid Wanted. The film also marked the first teaming of Crabbe with ineluctable comedy sidekick Al St. John. Like the previous "Billy the Kid" oaters with Bob...
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Fugitive Valley (1941)
Tags: B-Western Western Adventure Action
Length: 61min
Part of the "Range Buster" series of westerns, this film follows the adventures of a couple of former criminals (Ray Corrigan and John King) as they give up their thieving ways and take on the responsibilities of deputies. When a group of outlaws,...
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