{"id":13559,"date":"2015-10-18T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2015-10-11T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:41:34","slug":"the-other-frankenstein-monster-the-strange-fate-of-glenn-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13559","title":{"rendered":"The Other Frankenstein Monster: The Strange Fate of Glenn Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quick, name the famous actor in the photo above who played Frankenstein.<\/b><\/p>\n

Nope, it’s not Boris Karloff<\/strong>.  Try again.  No, he’s not Lon Chaney, Jr.<\/strong>.  Try again.  No, it’s not Bela Lugosi<\/strong> either.  The actor playing Frankenstein<\/strong> in the photo above is Glenn Strange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although Glenn Strange<\/strong> played the Frankenstein monster<\/strong> three times (tying Karloff’s record<\/strong>), most folks seldom think of Glenn Strange<\/strong> when they think of Frankenstein<\/strong>.  In a career that spanned over 300 roles<\/strong> in 43 years, Strange<\/strong> was best known as Sam the Bartender<\/strong> on Gunsmoke<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve read this far, you’ll enjoy the short piece by Jim Knipfel<\/strong> titled The Other Frankenstein Monster: The Strange Fate of Glenn Strange<\/a><\/strong> at Den of Geek<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Quick, name the famous actor in the photo above who played Frankenstein. Nope, it’s not Boris Karloff.  Try again.  No,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13561,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions\/13561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}