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Director Born: July 22, 1893 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England Death: May 29, 1957 in Los Angeles, California Biography:British-born director "James Whale" started his professional life as a newspaper cartoonist before turning to acting during his time as a prisoner in World War I. From acting, he turned to set design and then to directing, and went to Hollywood in 1930 for the screen version of his stage hit Journey's End. He served as an uncredited dialogue director on the World War I aerial drama Hell's Angels, but it was as a director of horror movies at Universal that Whale made his mark, with "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), and "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935). Apart from "Frankenstein", which was a wholly serious horror film, these movies freely mixed chills and black comedy, and caused nearly as much laughter as shock to audiences, who devoured the potent mixture of horror and humor. His graceful adaptation of "Show Boat" (1936) was one of the finest screen... Full Biography
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