Whale: A director must be pretty bad if he can't get a thrill out of war, murder, or robbery.
Whale's last commercially successful film was The Man in the Iron Mask released in 1939.
Whale committed suicide by drowning himself in his own swimming pool. A suicide note he had left behind was withheld by Whale's gay lover and not revealed until nearly 30 years later.
Whale was portrayed by Ian McKellan in the 1998 biopic Gods and Monsters.
After leaving Universal Studios in 1937, Whale went to Warner Brothers but only made one film there, The Great Garrick.
Whale left Universal Studios in 1937 after they re-edited his anti-war film The Road Back.
The first important play Whale directed in Great Britain was Journey's End which starred future Frankenstein collaborator Colin Clive.
In August of 1917, Whale was taken prisoner and spent the remainder of World War I in a German prison camp.
Whale was the sixth of seven children.
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