Fritz
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Search complete. 56 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Fritz".
Oct 20, 2026
Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
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12:46Cindy RotzHOST
Yeah.
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12:47Marty GentiusHOST
The thing that got me confused, and it might have been my confusion alone, was Carl and Fritz.
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12:57Cindy RotzHOST
Who's that?
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12:57Marty GentiusHOST
Who? Let me check this out.
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13:11Marty GentiusHOST
Not Wilmer, but he was in The Maltese Falcon in a bit role.
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13:17Marty GentiusHOST
And then Frankenstein, of course.
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13:19Marty GentiusHOST
He plays Fritz in Frankenstein, and he plays Carl in The Bride of Frankenstein.
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13:26Cindy RotzHOST
I think I read something about that, that they wanted to bring him back.
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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11:09Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
So Dwight Frye...
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11:10Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
So Dwight Frye played Fritz in the original, which Fritz is a dick.
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11:13Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
We'll talk about Frankenstein at some point.
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11:15Ryan Dean HalbrookPANELIST
But Dwight Frye is so good.
Frankenstein
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22:24BrianHOST
The set does a lot, and it brings you into the movie.
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22:28BrianHOST
And then you see Fritz and Henry Frankenstein, like, behind a gate just slowly pop out, and you're just kind of like, "What the hell is going on?" And if this is your first time...
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22:39BrianHOST
It's funny too because it almost looks like it's straight out of the fucking Haunted Mansion in the way that some of the animatronics, like, slowly pop up over the graves, but that's what they do.
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22:50BrianHOST
That's what's happening here.
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23:37BrianHOST
I don't think he actually is, but he has a specific name.
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23:40BrianHOST
And he starts shoveling dirt there on the body that's on the ground.
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23:45BrianHOST
So as he finishes covering the grave with dirt, he grabs his hat, grabs his smokes, and just leaves the scene, and that brings up Fritz, who happens to be our hunchback, right? Who you might call Igor or, in some cases, Igor, you know, just to make sure that everything is proper and properly pronounced in this.
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24:05BrianHOST
And, you know, he walks off, and here comes Franke- and, well, Frankie.
73. Frankenstein II - Puttin' On the Ritz!
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18:13Mackenna GoodrichHOST
So although Frankenstein's hunchback assistant is often referred to as Igor in descriptions of all of these movies, he is not called Igor in the earliest films.
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18:23Mackenna GoodrichHOST
He is named Fritz in the first movie.
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18:26Mackenna GoodrichHOST
Aww.
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18:27Mackenna GoodrichHOST
And then he is Carl in The Bride of Frankenstein, Carl with a K.
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19:40Aubrey HofferHOST
Yeah.
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19:41Mackenna GoodrichHOST
Yeah, and often I think where they go in these is both.
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19:46Mackenna GoodrichHOST
But so, yeah, and so when we first see him as Fritz, he's hunchbacked and walks with the aid of a small cane.
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19:51Mackenna GoodrichHOST
And I think it's just very specific that, like, in both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, it is Carl and Fritz who are technically separate characters, but they are both played by actor Dwight Frye.
October Monster Mash Frankenstein (1931) Vs. Young Frankenstein (1974)
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16:42Brant BumpersGUEST
Yep.
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16:42Uncle PatchesHOST
Uh, Dwight Fry as Fritz.
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16:44Uncle PatchesHOST
Now, Fritz would've been the Ygor character-
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16:48Brant BumpersGUEST
Yes.
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16:48Sinister CinemaHOST
Mm-hmm