Is that Frankenstein's Monster...


or Boris Karloff in a couple of scenes with Pilate? I haven't heard him mentioned as part of the cast but it sure looks like him when he was older.

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I doubt it but which scenes?

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It is with Pontius Pilate and others after questioning before sending Jesus to Herod. On You Tube it is at 8:07 on part 17/20 for the GSET and one could maybe compare to this image of an older Karloff about him getting married again if you scroll a bit down the page.

http://amog.com/entertainment/celebrity/married-multiple-marriages-celebrities/

I guess there are not enough "older folks" around or interest to help with this one.

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Not sure if I'm older or just interested or both, but it certainly isn't Boris Karloff who, in 1965, was looking rather older than in the photo you linked to:

http://0.tqn.com/d/quitsmoking/1/G/M/I/BorisKarloff.jpg

In fact, unless my eyes deceive me (and though a couple of profile close-ups isn't a lot for a cast-iron identification, your honour), I think that it's Paul Stewart (playing a character called Questor):

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-JS1565298.jpg?size=67&ui d=ce97377b-b371-437a-8255-bd6e385a19a0

It's typical of the way the movie was so radically reduced (the director's initial cut was 260 minutes; the longest version now available - on DVD - is 197 minutes) that character actors like him make this sort of truncated appearance, barely more than an extra. Is he in any other scenes at all?


Call me Ishmael...

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Good catch! I don't think I would have been able to solve this but Stewart does resemble Karloff.

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Thank you guys for coming up with the answer and I did not mean to insult or anything about age or indifference, so please forgive me.

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It Was Paul Stewart, who did resemble Boris in this picture.

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