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Colin Clive

Colin Clive is a British stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr Frankenstein in James Whale's two universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein (1930) and Bride of Frankenstein (1931).

Clive was born in France and became a stage actor, he first worked with Whale on a production about the horrors of trench warfare and subsequently joined the British community in Hollywood in the 1930s. He suffered chronic alcoholism and died in 1937.


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Colin Clive Facts

Birth NameColin Clive-Greig
OccupationActor
BirthdayJanuary 20, 1900
SignAquarius
BirthplaceFrance
Date of deathJune 26, 1937 (age 37)
Height6' (1m83)

Selected Filmography

The English Patient
Closer
The History Boys
Frankenstein
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Bunny Lake Is Missing
The Pickwick Papers
Bride of Chucky
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