Edward Van Sloan
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Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun) was an American screen and stage character actor best remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films.
Known for
Credits
Baby Face (1933)
as Jameson - Bank Director (uncredited)
Frankenstein (1931)
as Doctor Waldman
Dracula (1931)
as Van Helsing
Captain Hurricane (1935)
as Man at Susan Ann's Bedside
Dracula (1963)
as Professor (archive footage)
The Mummy (1932)
as Dr. Muller
Infernal Machine (1933)
as Professor Gustabve Hoffman
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
as Herr Wagner (uncredited)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
as German (uncredited)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
as Professor Van Helsing
Man Wanted (1932)
as Mr. Walters
Captain America (1944)
as Gregory
Road Gang (1936)
as Dudley
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
as Yacht Captain Swenson (uncredited)
Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
as Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Before I Hang (1940)
as Dr. Ralph Howard
Valley of Hunted Men (1942)
as Dr. Heinrich Steiner
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
Dracula in the Movies (1992)
as (archive footage)
Slander (1916)
as Joseph Tremaine
The Black Room (1935)
as Doctor
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
as Jarvis
Universal Horror (1998)
as (archive footage)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Dr. Barrett (uncredited)
A Man's World (1942)
as Doctor Stone
Under Eighteen (1932)
as Assistant to François (uncredited)
The Conspirators (1944)
as Dutch Underground Leader (uncredited)
The Working Man (1933)
as Mr. Briggs
Criminal Lawyer (1937)
as Bit (uncredited)
The Woman in Red (1935)
as Prosecuting Attorney Foxall
Love Crazy (1941)
as Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as German Diplomat in Berlin (uncredited)
The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
as Medical Board Doctor
Destination Unknown (1942)
as Holland Legation
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
as Jim Winters
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
as Burkhardt
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as Calvus (uncredited)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Van Helsing (archive footage)
Storm Over Bengal (1938)
as Maharajah of Lhanapur
Behind the Mask (1932)
as Dr. August Steiner / Dr. Alec Munsell / Mr. X
The Last Mile (1932)
as Rabbi
The Death Kiss (1932)
as Tom Avery
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
as Priest on Bali (uncredited)
The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
as Van Helsing (archive footage)
Air Hawks (1935)
as Schutter
The Phantom Creeps (1949)
as Jarvis
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Minister at Funeral (uncredited)
End of the Road (1944)
as Judge
Penitentiary (1938)
as Dr. Rinewulf
This Side of the Law (1950)
as Judge (uncredited)
Fatal Lady (1936)
as French Surete (uncredited)
Deluge (1933)
as Professor
Mills of the Gods (1934)
as Komeoski
The Mask of Diijon (1946)
as Sheffield
A Shot in the Dark (1935)
as Professor Bostwick
Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
as Pop Owens
Thunder Below (1932)
as Doctor
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
as Dr. Gordon
Danger on the Air (1938)
as Leonard Sylvester
Grand Old Girl (1935)
as Holland
The Secret Seven (1940)
as Prof. Holtz
Manhattan Parade (1931)
as The Lawyer
Murder on the Campus (1933)
as Prof. C. Edson Hawley
The Crosby Case (1934)
as Professor Franz Lubeck
The Arizonian (1935)
as Judge Cody
The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
as (as Ed Van Sloan) Attorney Carp
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
as Dr. Wilton
That Mothers Might Live (1938)
as Hospital Chief of Staff (uncredited)
Sins of Man (1936)
as Austrian Army Doctor
Boo (1932)
as Dr. Waldman (edited from "Frankenstein")
I'll Fix It (1934)
as Parkes
Play Girl (1932)
as Moffatt, the Boss
Betty Co-Ed (1946)
as A.J.A. Woodruff
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
as Van Helsing (archive footage)
Trick for Trick (1933)
as John Russell