J. Carrol Naish was one of the greatest character actors who ever worked in Hollywood. His list of major film credits include "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), "Beau Geste" (1939), "Sahara" (1943), "A Medal For Benny" (1945), and "The Beast With Five Fingers" (1946).

Naish was no stranger to B pictures either, adding immeasurably to such horror films as "The Monster Maker" (1944) and "House of Frankenstein" (1944); as well as to mysteries like "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" (1937) and "Strange Confession" (1945). He was also the star of two short lived TV shows in the fifties, "Life With Luigi" and "The Adventures of Charlie Chan".

Though TV stardom didn't work out for him he did spend the rest of the decade making films like "The Black Hand" (1950), "Across the Wide Missouri" (1951), and "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" (1953). Naish's last film credit is the ultra low budget Al Adamson film "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" (1971) with fellow horror film alumnus Lon Chaney, Jr.. He died soon after the film was released.

Being such an all around actor who liked to work, it is not surprising to see his name listed in the credits of two serials. Mascot's "Mystery Squadron" (1933) cast Naish as a minor henchman, but it is his other serial that most cliffhanger fans think of when his name is brought up, Columbia's "Batman" (1943). Wearing a heavy amount of makeup, Naish played Japanese master spy Dr. Daka, who created living zombies to help overthrow the country, but was constantly thwarted by the Dynamic Duo.