Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.
鲍里斯·卡洛夫（Boris Karloff；1887年11月23日－1969年2月2日），真实名称为William Henry Pratt，是英国的一名演员。卡洛夫因参与恐怖片的演出而出名，尤其在1931年的《科学怪人》、1935年的《弗兰肯斯坦的新娘》和1939年的《科学怪人之子 》中饰演弗兰肯斯坦的怪物一角色最为出名。
生于密苏里州圣路易市，少时受过美术启蒙。耶鲁大学毕业，获艺术史和英语双学位，后进入伦敦大学获美术史硕士学位。1935年首次登台，演出舞台剧《芝加哥》，接着主演《维克多丽亚·里贾纳》，不久即已是一个知名的戏剧演员。1938年进入电影界，以奸诈或虚伪的反面人物形象给观众留下了深刻...
美国电影女演员，是当年百老汇的漂亮歌舞明星。三、四十年代在好莱坞电影中扮演性格角色。
