Edward Van Sloan

Actor

Date of birth : 10/31/1882

Date of death : 03/06/1964

City of birth : Chaska, Minnesota, USA

US character actor; he of the close-cropped gray hair, thick spectacles and clipped, ominous tones who would serve most memorably as the nemesis of evil-doers and monsters in 30's and 40's horror movies and suspensers, antagonizing first the likes of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff and then, years later, Erich von Stroheim.