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Carroll Borland is a Actor American born on 25 february 1914 at San Francisco (USA)
Carroll Borland (February 25, 1914 – February 3, 1994), better known by the stage-spelling Carol Borland, was an American professor, writer, and actress. She is best known for having portrayed Luna, the daughter of Bela Lugosi's character, Count Mora, in Mark of the Vampire, and for creating the iconic look of the female vampire with her waist-length dark hair and Adrian-designed shroud in this film. The visual designs of both the character of Lily Munster in the television series The Munsters and the female vampire in Plan 9 from Outer Space were based on her striking appearance. She was accused of wearing the "wiggiest wig in Hollywood," but claimed that the waist-length hair was her own. Her character does not speak through much of the film, but walks in a trance-like state until the end, when it is revealed that she and Lugosi are both actors who pretended to be vampires in order to catch a murderer. She was born in San Francisco, California. She was a drama student at UC Berkeley at the time she took the role. She had previously appeared in a stage production of Dracula with Lugosi, in a minor role as one of his victims.
She got the attention of Lugosi - and a part in the play - by writing to him and suggesting that Dracula did not die at the end of the novel, but rather turned to dust just as the sun was setting. However, she was known to exaggerate the closeness of Lugosi's fatherly relationship to her; in Richard Bojarski's The Films of Bela Lugosi, she describes his funeral as if she had been there, and claims to have been, though she was not actually in attendance.
She retired from acting in 1953, though her other screen appearances were limited to a short film in 1933 and an unbilled appearance in the 1936 serial Flash Gordon until Fred Olen Ray cast her in his films Scalps (1983) and Bio-Hazard (1985).
Her novel, Countess Dracula, was published by Magicimage Filmbooks in March 1994, one month after her death from pneumonia.
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Nationality USA
Birth 25 february 1914 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 3 february 1994 (at 79 years) at Arlington County (USA)
Birth 25 february 1914 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 3 february 1994 (at 79 years) at Arlington County (USA)
She got the attention of Lugosi - and a part in the play - by writing to him and suggesting that Dracula did not die at the end of the novel, but rather turned to dust just as the sun was setting. However, she was known to exaggerate the closeness of Lugosi's fatherly relationship to her; in Richard Bojarski's The Films of Bela Lugosi, she describes his funeral as if she had been there, and claims to have been, though she was not actually in attendance.
She retired from acting in 1953, though her other screen appearances were limited to a short film in 1933 and an unbilled appearance in the 1936 serial Flash Gordon until Fred Olen Ray cast her in his films Scalps (1983) and Bio-Hazard (1985).
Her novel, Countess Dracula, was published by Magicimage Filmbooks in March 1994, one month after her death from pneumonia.
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Biohazard (1985)
, 1h24Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Aldo Ray, Angelique Pettyjohn, Carroll Borland, Donald G. Jackson, Fred Olen Ray, Christopher Ray
Roles Rula Murphy
Rating36%
Un monstre extraterrestre utilise un médium pour essayer de s'emparer de la terre.
Scalps (1983)
, 1h22Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Kirk Alyn, Carroll Borland, Forrest J Ackerman
Roles Dr. Sharon Reynolds
Rating39%
Six college archeology students work on a dig in the California desert, despite the warnings of a professor and the town drunk. When the group digs around in an Indian burial ground for artifacts, they unleash the evil spirit of Black Claw. The spirit possesses one of the group and begins slaughtering them one by one.
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
, 1h1Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, Carroll Borland
Roles Luna
Rating62%
Sir Karell Borotyn (Holmes Herbert) is found murdered in his house, with two tiny pinpoint wounds on his neck. The attending doctor, Dr. Doskil (Donald Meek), and Sir Karell's friend Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt) are convinced that he was killed by a vampire. They suspect Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter Luna (Carroll Borland), while the Prague police inspector (Lionel Atwill) refuses to believe them.