![]() ![]() ![]() Universal's earliest success in the horror genre was the historical drama The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923 starring Lon Chaney in the title role. Universal started out by the name Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) Later on, the popular comedy team, Abbott and Costello, effectively joined the franchise beginning with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the first of a series of comedy films that had the pair encounter the monsters, which were largely played seriously in the stories while the comedians handled the humor elements. The studio's leading horror actors were Lon Chaney, Béla Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney, Jr., and the numerous directors included Tod Browning, James Whale, Robert Florey and Karl Freund. The series began with the 1923 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and continued with such movies as The Phantom of the Opera, the Draculafranchise, the Frankensteinsaga, The Mummyfranchise, The Invisible Manfilms, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, The Wolf Manseries, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Universal Monsters or Universal Horror is the name given to a series of distinctive horror, suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios from 1923 to 1960. Lon Chaney, Universal's most prominent horror star, as seen in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) You can help the Universal Monsters Database by expanding it or cleaning it up to reach this wiki's quality standards The information in this article is either inaccurate, incomplete, or completely unorganized
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