Mad Scientists

[Dr. Madd]

I was just pondering:

Favorite Mad Scientist:

1. Colin Clive
2. Basil Rathbone- My personal favorite
3. Lionel Atwill
4. Calude Rains- The Invisible man
5. Boris Karloff
6. Bela Lugosi
7.  Cedric Hardwicke
8. Peter Cushing..

Any other Mad Docs?

If the mods could indulge me, they could make this a poll.

[MDG]

George Zucco (the Mad Monster, The Flying Lizard)

John Carradine (The Unearthly, Astro Zombies)

[Dr. Madd]

Also Zucco in the Mad Ghoul and Carradine in Captive Wild Woman and The Invisible Man's revenge.

[Cool Count]

I'm also a big George Zucco fan.

[Paul L]

Peter Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein tops my list as the maddest  of them all, then:
Karloff's Dr. Neimann
Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes
Peter Lorre's Dr. Gogol, from Mad Love

[Hepcat]

My top two:

Peter Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein
Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes

[Wicked Lester]

Some good ones mentioned. I like Lionel Atwill as Dr. X.

[Elisabeth]

Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein in FRANKENSTEIN
Ernest Thesiger as Pretorious in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Lionel Atwill as Dr. Rigas in MAN MADE MONSTER
Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol in MAD LOVE
Boris Karloff as DR. FU MANCHU
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Richard Vollin in THE RAVEN  (Poe...You are..  AVENGED!!!!)
Boris Karloff as Janos Rukh in THE INVISIBLE RAY
Claude Rains as Jack Griffin in THE INVISIBLE MAN
Fredric March as Dr. Henry Jekyll in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
George Zucco as Dr. Alfred Morris in THE MAD GHOUL

Elisabeth 

[I am the Female Dracula]

Vollin, Gogol, Frankenstein (wolf and daddio), Phibes- definitely.


But my ultimate favourite...

Dr. Goldfoot.

[Bogey]

Disney's The Mad Doctor (1933)

[Hepcat]

This fellow should get honourable mention anyway:



 

[Scatter]

This fellow should get honourable mention anyway:



 

Man, I'd kill for one of those!! Don't tell me you have one Hep??

[Hepcat]

No longer! I had one as a kid and it somehow disappeared when I went off to boarding school in grade nine! I think my dad gave it away to the snot nosed kid down the street even though he later claimed not to remember anything about where it went.



I've been looking for another one for the last 28 years and I haven't seen any kind of copy let alone a pristine one. A new old store stock one would be my Holy Grail of collecting. I actually even contacted Mort Kunstler, the cover artist, to see whether he had either the original art or the set itself somewhere in storage. Sadly he didn't.

[Scatter]

No longer! I had one as a kid and it somehow disappeared when I went off to boarding school in grade nine! I think my dad gave it away to the snot nosed kid down the street even though he later claimed not to remember anything about where it went.

You know, that seems to be a recurring theme here.........parents tossing out beloved toys when kids are away. Mine got tossed when we moved to Florida (DOUBLE the horror). Well, at least now we'll never do that to our kids.

I've been looking for another one for the last 28 years and I haven't seen any kind of copy let alone a pristine one. A new old store stock one would be my Holy Grail of collecting. I actually even contacted Mort Kunstler, the cover artist, to see whether he had either the original art or the set itself somewhere in storage. Sadly he didn't.

I've never seen one come up either. But you just KNOW that somewhere in some warehouse there's a case of those bad boys that haven't seen the light of day since Kennedy was President. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

[The Spangler]

  No mention of Onslow Stevens?  I know, technically Dr. Edelman was a vampire in H O D when he was "mad", but he really was mad!   Plus I love the way he just runs and jumps around the set, apparently with little stunt doubling too! "I don't LIKE people who don't keep their promises!"