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Bobby Pickett

Bobby Pickett

Actor · 1938 – 2007 · Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Bobby "Boris" Pickett (born Robert George Pickett, February 11, 1938 – April 25, 2007) was a Somerville, Massachusetts-born musician and actor, best known for singing and co-writing the 1962 hit novelty song "Monster Mash". Pickett performed the track in an impersonation of veteran horror film stars Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi (as in the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"). Bobby Pickett co-wrote the song along with Leonard Capizzi. It became a million seller, as well as reaching Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was styled as being by Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kicker 5. In Britain it took until October 1973 for the tune to become popular, but it then pinnacled at Number 3 in the UK singles chart. A Christmas themed follow-up, "Monster's Holiday", was also released in 1962, and it became a minor hit. After releasing a variety of other Halloween-based songs as well as trying his hand at script-writing, Bobby died of leukemia on April 25, 2007, at age 69.

Movies17

  • Movie4.7

    Sister, Sister

    1987 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Three's a Crowd

    1969 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Monster Mash: The Movie

    1995 · 15 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Strange Invaders

    1983 · 87 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Chrome and Hot Leather

    1971 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.6
  • Movie5.2

    Lobster Man from Mars

    1990 · 27 votes

  • Movie8.2
  • Movie
  • Movie5.3
  • Movie3.8

    Hot Money

    1983 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Deathmaster

    1972 · 8 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.2

    The Baby Maker

    1970 · 9 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Splitz

    1984 · 7 votes

  • Movie3.9

    It's a Bikini World

    1967 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Spooky World

    1994 · 1 votes

Series3

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV6.5

    T. J. Hooker

    1982 · 98 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes