Glenn Strange

Nacimiento
16 de agosto de 1899 · Weed, New Mexico, Estados Unidos
Defunción
20 de septiembre de 1973 · Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (un cáncer de pulmón)
Nombre de nacimiento
George Glenn Strange
Alias
- Pee Wee
- Glen Strange
- The Arizona Wranglers
Altura
1.93 m

Working on a film at Universal, he noticed that the makeup man, department head Jack P. Pierce, kept looking at his face. Pierce asked Strange if he would stay after work, for an extra $25.00, for a makeup test which might lead to another acting job. Pierce covered the mirrors and applied the makeup. When the mirrors were uncovered, Strange claimed that "I look like Boris Karloff". Pierce thought that Strange's face had the right characteristics for the Frankensein monster makeup. Strange took over the role in La guarida de Frankenstein (1944).
Though Boris Karloff is more popular as the Frankenstein Monster, it is Strange's version that is often used by Universal Studios for marketing purposes.
Before becoming an actor, he had various jobs, including singer, professional boxer (he once fought heavyweight Primo Carnera), cattle rancher, rodeo rider, deputy sheriff in New Mexico and police officer in Durant, OK.
Was bed-ridden with lung cancer when his good friend Lon Chaney Jr. passed away. Bob Burns, who was working at CBS at the time, was asked to find somebody to talk about Chaney. Burns went to Strange that night and told him that no one would speak for him. Strange said, "I will." He got out of bed and traveled to the studio with Burns. Burns later remarked how moving it was that Strange, dying himself, came in for his friend. Six months later Strange passed away.
Boris Karloff's obituary in 1969 was run in newspapers with Strange's picture as Frankenstein's monster.

[on Yakima Canutt] I never, in all the time I worked with Yak, I never saw a guy get hurt if they did what Yak told them to do. They tell me Yak got hurt one time over at MGM, a mule fell back on him-on El fruto dorado (1940). That was just a freak accident thing, but I'm talking about things he would rig up. For instance, he'd hook a four-up to a wagon, then come down a road and you'd see him bend 'em, he had a way of pulling the kingpin which let the horses loose and he'd go with the horses and the wagon would just pick itself up and wrap itself around a tree. The guy somehow had a knack for rigging the thing where he got just the effect he wanted. He'd jump from the stagecoach boot to the first team, then the second team, then go underneath and crawl back up on the coach again. He's a perfectionist when it comes to figuring out a stunt and how to get the maximum out of it. Still, it's safe for everybody involved in it, if they do what he tells them to do.
I'm six foot four to start with, and with the makeup and padding, I'd wear a size 70 coat, the boots had six-inch soles, and by the time I was ready to film, I was just about seven feet tall.

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