Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseStopWorks.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Frye.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Today's show continues our tradition of Halloween time episodes where each year we pick a classic

horror actor to talk about.

A spoiler alert though, I feel like it's fair to say.

This one goes down a fairly sad path, so just if you're not ready for that, maybe save

this one for later.

But it is about one of the lesser known horror actors that really helped make the genre

Universal's great money making success of the 1930s.

And I wanted to give him a little bit more time in the spotlight because not many people

know about him.

We are talking today about Dwight Frye.

And if you don't know his name, I think only people who are really into old school horror

might just know it off hand, so it's no shame in that game if you don't know it.

But you have probably seen at least one or two of his performances.

Yeah, I did not know his name off hand when you sent this outline over to me.

But then when I went to look for artwork for it, I was like, oh yeah, that guy.

Yeah, switch, I think is what most people do.

So yeah, he's he's due for a little more attention.

So Dwight Frye was born on February 22nd, 1899 in Selena Kansas.

He was the only child of Charles and Ella Frye.

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