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Boris Karloff is the star of this Hollywood Stage presentation of David Copperfield.
Charles Dickens is rightly regarded as among the foremost of English novelists. One of his greatest creations, David Copperfield chronicles a young man’s journey from childhood to maturity and the problems and hurdles that bestride his path.
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About Charles Dickens
Patrick
Tull (1941–2006), born in the United Kingdom, was a multitalented actor of the stage, screen, and
television, as well as an award-winning audiobook narrator. He acted in
numerous American television shows from 1962 to 1996, including Crossroads, and he had roles in six Broadway plays between 1967 and
1992, including Amadeus. His film credits
from 1969 to 1996 included roles as Cecil in Parting Glances and Jerry the bartender in Sleepers. He served as narrator for the television series Sea Tales. He narrated nearly forty audiobooks,
and his readings of The Canterbury Tales,
The Letter of Marque, Monk’s Hood, The Vicar of Wakefield, and
How Green Was My Valley each earned
him an AudioFile Earphones Award. His narration of Patrick O’Brian’s
Aubrey/Maturin novels was praised by novelist Stephen King as among his ten favorite
audiobooks of 2006.
About Boris Karloff
Boris
Karloff (1887–1969), born William Henry Pratt in England, adopted the stage
name of Boris Karloff when he joined a touring company in Canada. When he ended
up short of cash in Hollywood, he secured acting work in silent films,
beginning in 1920. He appeared in eighty films before his big break came in
1931 when cast as the monster in Universal Pictures’ production of Frankenstein. On Broadway, he appeared
as the murderous Brewster brother in the hit Arsenic and Old Lace, and a decade later he enjoyed a long run in Peter Pan, perfectly cast as Captain
Hook. He was an actor also known for his voice work. He was the biggest star to
lend his voice to a sound effect: Universal added his anguished scream over the
dead Ygor from Son of Frankenstein
(1939) to its stock sound effects library and used it for subsequent films,
including House of Frankenstein
(1944) as the cry when Daniel the hunchback falls from the roof. He provided the
voice of the Grinch in the original 1966 animated film version of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
and his voice was the basis for Tony the Tiger commercials by Kellogg’s. He
also narrated many successful recordings of children’s stories. He won the
AudioFile Earphones Award for his reading of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, praised for his eloquent
locution and full repertoire of creature voices delivered in his “inimitable
style” And Library Journal says the
stories are “read to perfection by Boris Karloff.”