Ernest Thesiger Biography
Ernest Thesiger, CBE, was an English stage and screen actor. He is best known for his distinctive performance as Dr. Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein.
Ernest Thesiger Movies
Ernest Thesiger Quotes
Fear and Threats in the Dark
Prof. Morlant:
You're afraid of me!
Laing: [Shakes his head]
I'm afraid FOR you.
Prof. Morlant: [Referring to the jewel]
If this should leave me, you'll have reason to fear... for when the full moon strikes the door of my tomb, I will come back. You hear? I will come back to kill!
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A Visit Amidst Illness and Beliefs
Nigel Hartley:
I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?
Laing:
He'll never see the morning.
Nigel Hartley:
He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?
Laing:
Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.
Nigel Hartley:
I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.
Laing:
He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.
Nigel Hartley:
Still, sometimes at the end...
Laing:
Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!
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