Cast

Boris Karloff
The Monster

Colin Clive
Henry Frankenstein

Valerie Hobson
Elizabeth

Ernest Thesiger
Doctor Pretorius

Elsa Lanchester
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate

Gavin Gordon
Lord Byron

Douglas Walton
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Una O'Connor
Minnie

E. E. Clive
Burgomaster

Lucien Prival
Butler

O. P. Heggie
Hermit

Dwight Frye
Karl

Reginald Barlow
Hans

Mary Gordon
Hans' Wife

Anne Darling
Shepherdess

Ted Billings
Ludwig

Billy Barty
Baby (uncredited)

Robert Adair
Hunter in Woods (uncredited)

Maurice Black
Gypsy (uncredited)

Walter Brennan
Peasant (uncredited)

John Carradine
Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)

D'Arcy Corrigan
Procession Leader (uncredited)

Grace Cunard
Villager (uncredited)

Elspeth Dudgeon
Gypsy's Mother (uncredited)

Helen Jerome Eddy
Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)

Brenda Fowler
Mother (uncredited)

John George
Villager (uncredited)

Helen Gibson
Villager (uncredited)

Marilyn Harris
Girl (uncredited)

Carmencita Johnson
Friend of Murdered Girl (uncredited)

Rollo Lloyd
Neighbor (uncredited)

Murdock MacQuarrie
Sympathetic Villager (uncredited)

Torben Meyer
Victim in flashback (uncredited)

Edwin Mordant
Coroner (uncredited)

Charles Murphy
Guard (uncredited)

Helen Parrish
Communion Girl (uncredited)

Edward Peil Sr.
Villager (uncredited)

Tempe Pigott
Auntie Glutz (uncredited)

Mary Stewart
Neighbor (uncredited)

Frank Terry
Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon
Maid (uncredited)

Joan Woodbury
Queen Homunculus (uncredited)
Crew

James Whale
Director

Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer

Franz Waxman
Original Music Composer

Robert Florey
Story

Otto Lederer
Assistant Makeup Artist

Mary Shelley
Original Story

Otto Lederer
Makeup Trainee

Monte Montague
Stand In

John L. Balderston
Adaptation

Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist

C. Bakaleinikoff
Conductor

Carl Laemmle
Presenter
