Edward Van Sloan

US character actor; he of the close-cropped gray hair, thick spectacles and clipped, ominous tones who would serve most memorably as the nemesis of evil-doers and monsters in 30's and 40's horror movies and suspensers, antagonizing first the likes of 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) and 'Boris Karloff' (qv) and then, years later, 'Erich von Stroheim' (qv).::Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>