{"id":2742,"date":"2024-02-22T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T02:32:25","slug":"happy-birthday-dwight-frye-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/02\/happy-birthday-dwight-frye-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Dwight Frye!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">February 22, 1899 \u2013 November 7, 1943<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Dwight Iliff Frye in Salina, Kansas; Mr. Frye was an American character actor of stage and screen known for his portrayals of neurotic and murderous villains. Mr. Frye\u2019s contributions to the CDF filmography include roles such as the hunchbacked assistant, Fritz, in Frankenstein (1931), the half-wit suspect, Herman, in the horror film The Vampire Bat (1933), as a reporter in The Invisible Man (1933), as Karl In Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and his signature role \u2013 the madman Renfield, in Dracula (1931)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1224\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Dwight Frye photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 22, 1899 \u2013 November 7, 1943 Born Dwight Iliff Frye in Salina, Kansas; Mr. Frye was an American character actor of stage and screen known for his portrayals of neurotic and murderous villains. Mr. Frye\u2019s contributions to the CDF filmography include roles such as the hunchbacked assistant, Fritz, in Frankenstein (1931), the half-wit suspect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,67,398,33,245,16,66],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-dracula","tag-dwightfrye","tag-frankenstein","tag-invisibleman","tag-movies","tag-vampire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dwight-Frye_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}