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Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22 1899–November 7 1943) was an American stage and screen actor.

Frye was born in Salina, Kansas. Nicknamed "the Man with the Thousand-Watt Stare", and "The Man of a Thousand Deaths," he specialized in the portrayal of mentally unbalanced characters, including his signature role, the madman Renfield in Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula
. Later that same year he also played the hunchbacked dwarf assistant in the film Frankenstein
.

Frye had a prominent role in 1933 horror film The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, and Fay Wray, in which he played Herman, a half-wit suspected of being a killer. He also had a memorable role in the classic Bride of Frankenstein
, in which he played Karl. The part of Karl was originally much longer, many extra scenes of Frye being shot as a sub plot, but were edited out of the final version to shorten the running time.

In 1970 the rock-and-roll band Alice Cooper recorded a song titled "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" (without the final "e"), sung from the point of view of a character such as the actor might have played.

Also, the music company Wind-up Entertainment Inc. houses one music publishing concern called Renfield Music Publishing, and another called Dwight Frye Music, which publishes artists such as Evanescence and Creed.

Frye died in Hollywood and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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