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Contents 1 Clarification 2 You're a Mean One (Mr. Grinch) 3 Disambiguation needed? 4 Relatives??? 5 Eurasians 6 "the 8 movies to pair Karloff & Lugosi" 7 WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers priority assessment

[edit] Clarification

I'm looking for the film that was I believe on PBS Channel 4 in Idaho. Boris Karloff narrated it. It was about meat-eating plants. Do you know where I can get a copy of it. I would like a copy for myself and possibly a copy for our commmunity library (Ada Community Library) in Boise,ID. Any information you can get for me would be appreciated. My regular mailing address is Mary Grover P.O.Box 79 Kuna, ID 83634 or my E-Mail address is mary_dayle51@hotmail.com. Thank-You very Much!! I really enjoyed looking at your web-site.

• Hey, it's your website, too. --Alcalde 19:12, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• I vaguely remember Karloff's voice on this one. Try going thru PBS -- #255 "Death Trap". Meat-eating plants. 60 min. WBardwin 10:03, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're a Mean One (Mr. Grinch)

The actual singer of the Christmas classic "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was actually Thurl Ravenscroft of Tony the Tiger fame, "They're grrrreat!"

[edit] Disambiguation needed?

There was also a famous Boris Karloff, who was a Balkan accordionist of considerable fame...

[edit] Relatives???

Any other relatives out there???? He was like my great uncle or something. But shout out to Sarah Karloff- Hey I didn't know i was related to you. well, i guess you learn something new everyday.

-Yesterday it was to not eat dairy products...im afraid im a bit lactosintolerant(i think i spelt that wrong...oh well)

-Jenna Pratt

[edit] Eurasians

Having him in the Eurasian category is stretching things somewhat, after all his mother's mother's mother's mother was Bengali from Calcutta but the rest of his family was English - as such he was only 1/16 East Indian, Anna Leonowens his Great Aunt could just about be described as Eurasian being a 1/4 East Indian (both her name and Boris Karloff's name were invented and not their actual names), anything less than a 1/4 and I think it's stretching things somewhat to describe them as Eurasian. --Lord of the Isles 21:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "the 8 movies to pair Karloff & Lugosi"

Apparently there were 8 movies to star both Messrs Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. This was mentioned in the The Black Cat (1934 film) article. Can someone list these 8 movies, if they are indeed 8? --h_a 23:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers priority assessment

Per debate and discussion re: assessment of the approximate 100 top priority articles of the project, this article has been included as a top priority article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 07:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)