Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
Frankenstein (1931 film) and starring Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This is also the sequel to "The Wolf Man", with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man. Karloff returned to the series, but not the role, in the follow-up, "House of Frankenstein" (1944), which also featured Chaney, and adds Dracula, played by John Carradine, and a hunchback for good measure. "House of Dracula" (1945) continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters. Many of the subsequent films which featured Frankenstein's monster demote the creature to a robotic henchman in someone else's plots, such as in its final Universal film appearance in