The Monster
Boris Karloff
Henry Frankenstein
Colin Clive
Hermit
O. P. Heggie
Karl
Dwight Frye
Hans
Reginald Barlow
Hans' Wife
Mary Gordon
Shepherdess
Anne Darling
Ludwig
Ted Billings
Baby (uncredited)
Billy Barty
Hunter in Woods (uncredited)
Robert Adair
Archbishop (uncredited)
Norman Ainsley
Villager (uncredited)
Frank Benson
Elizabeth
Valerie Hobson
Gypsy (uncredited)
Maurice Black
Peasant (uncredited)
Walter Brennan
Mae Bruce
King Homunculus (uncredited)
A.S. Byron
Lost Hunter at Hermit's Cottage (uncredited)
John Carradine
Procession Leader (uncredited)
D'Arcy Corrigan
Grace Cunard
Uncle Glutz (uncredited)
J. Gunnis Davis
Ballerina (uncredited)
Marie DeForrest
Gypsy's Mother (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Doctor Pretorius
Ernest Thesiger
Gypsy's Wife (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Rudy (uncredited)
Neil Fitzgerald
Mother (uncredited)
Brenda Fowler
John George
Helen Gibson
Girl (uncredited)
Marilyn Harris
Friend of Murdered Girl (uncredited)
Carmencita Johnson
Neighbor (uncredited)
Rollo Lloyd
Sympathetic Villager (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Little Mermaid (uncredited)
Josephine McKim
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Mate
Elsa Lanchester
Victim in flashback (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Coroner (uncredited)
Edwin Mordant
Guard (uncredited)
Charles Murphy
Servant (uncredited)
Joseph North
Communion Girl (uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Edward Peil Sr.
Auntie Glutz (uncredited)
Tempe Pigott
Marta (uncredited)
Sarah Schwartz
Devil (uncredited)
Peter Shaw
Mary Stewart
Lord Byron
Gavin Gordon
Frank Terry
Anders Van Haden
Maid (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Priest (uncredited)
Lucio Villegas
Queen Homunculus (uncredited)
Joan Woodbury
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Douglas Walton
Minnie
Una O'Connor
Burgomaster
E. E. Clive
Butler
Lucien Prival
Producer
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Original Story
Mary Shelley
Stand In
Monte Montague
Original Music Composer
Franz Waxman
Adaptation
John L. Balderston
Assistant Makeup Artist
Otto Lederer
Makeup Trainee
Orchestrator
C. Bakaleinikoff
Director
James Whale
Story
Robert Florey
Makeup Artist
Jack Pierce
Editor
Ted J. Kent
Director of Photography
John J. Mescall
Special Effects
John P. Fulton
Sound Supervisor
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Engineer
William Hedgcock
Hairstylist
Irma Kusely
Sound Effects Editor
Edwin Wetzel
Assistant Director
Harry Mancke
Josef Berne
Lawrence G. Blochman
R.C. Sherriff
Additional Writing
Tom Reed
Fred Frank
Morton Covan
Hair Setup
Visual Effects
Cleo E. Baker
Screenplay
Edmund Pearson
Jack Cosgrove
Special Effects Technician
Ken Strickfaden
Scoring Mixer
Larry Aicholtz
Joseph A. McDonough
Special Effects Assistant
David S. Horsley
Camera Operator
Alan Jones
Philip MacDonald
Assistant Camera
William Dodds
Visual Effects Camera
Russell Lawson
Clifford Vaughan
Music Coordinator
Abe Meyer
Musician
Oliver Wallace
Script Consultant
Flo Brummel
George DeNormand
Costume Design
Vera West
Art Direction
Charles D. Hall
William Hurlbut
Supervising Film Editor
Maurice Pivar
Grip
Fred Stoll