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Edward Van Sloan (November 1, 1881 – March 6, 1964) American character actor of Dutch origins who often played elderly doctors and scientists. As Professor Abraham van (and von) Helsing, he confronted the Count in Dracula (1931) and his vampiric offspring in Dracula’s Daughter (1936), after creating the role on Broadway. His other credits include Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), Behind the Mask (1932), Deluge (1933), The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Black Room (1935), The Phantom Creeps (1939), Before I Hang (1940), The Monster and the Girl (1941), The Masked Marvel (1943), Captain America (1944), and The Mask of Diijon (1945). He retired from the screen in 1946.
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