Edward Van Sloan
Birthday: 1882-11-01
Place of Birth: Chaska, Minnesota, USA
Biography: Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun) was an American screen and stage character actor best remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films.
Movies
Dracula
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is i...
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Frankenstein
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life....
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The Secret Seven
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a s...
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Dracula's Daughter
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings....
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End of the Road
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is i...
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Before I Hang
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating ag...
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Slander
The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an unte...
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The Mummy
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds h...
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The Phantom Creeps
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions....
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This Side of the Law
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told ...
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The Mask of Diijon
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt....
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The Working Man
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of hi...
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The Death Kiss
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to ...
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Teddy the Rough Rider
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appoin...
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Under Eighteen
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...
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Criminal Lawyer
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Be...
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The Conspirators
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon....
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods....
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula...
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Murder on the Campus
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the colle...
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A Shot in the Dark
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college....
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Air Hawks
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine th...
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Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a ...
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A Foreign Affair
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoma...
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfma...
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Danger on the Air
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio sho...
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The Life of Vergie Winters
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman a...
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Thunder Below
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f...
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The Scarlet Empress
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
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The Man Who Found Himself
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passio...
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Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...
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Manhattan Parade
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o...
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Grand Old Girl
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den....
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That Mothers Might Live
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is...
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Honeymoon in Bali
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the...
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Boo
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula....
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Love Crazy
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorc...
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Sins of Man
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo...
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Trick for Trick
Six months after the unsolved murder of a young woman who had been his assistant magician Azrah arra...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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The Woman in Red
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn o...
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Riders of the Rio Grande
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe...
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Valley of Hunted Men
Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also ...
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Captain Hurricane
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brews...
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The Arizonian
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d...
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...
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Behind the Mask
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets....
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The Last Mile
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on de...
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Storm Over Bengal
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in it...
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Infernal Machine
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets f...
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It's Great to Be Alive
An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the la...
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Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...
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Destination Unknown
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking....
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The Underworld Story
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big ...
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The Crosby Case
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder....
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Mills of the Gods
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved wi...
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Manhattan Melodrama
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and...
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I'll Fix It
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no p...
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A Man's World
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, wome...
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Deluge
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massiv...
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The Phantom Creeps
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the w...
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Captain America
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons ...
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Penitentiary
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he pro...
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The Black Room
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever...
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a...
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Universal Horror
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the...
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...
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