Mark Blankfield, born in 1950 in Pasadena, Texas, is an actor celebrated for his comedic roles in cult cinema. He appears in Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988) as a character that showcases his knack for blending humor with horror. Blankfield also features in The Midnight Hour (1985) and Frankenstein General Hospital (1988), where his performances contribute to the quirky charm of these cult classics. His work in these films reflects the playful yet subversive spirit of 1980s genre cinema.
Frankenstein General Hospital
Dr. Bob saves patients upstairs and rebuilds the dead below. Once his patchwork creation awakens, keeping the family secret becomes the hospital’s most dangerous procedure. Dr. Bob Frankenstein (Mark Blankfield) is the great-great grandson of Victor. Unlike Victor, however, he is working at a Los Angeles General Hospital as an intern under the name of Dr. Robert Frankenheimer. What his coworkers do not know, however, is that he has a laboratory, which is in B&W while everything else is in color (because it has been "drained of color", Bob says) and along with his dimwitted, two left-legged hunch-back Iggy, he intends to create the perfect human to succeed where his ancestors failed. However, as usual, the experiment goes wrong when Iggy steals the brain of a sex and food starved teenager instead of a brilliant mind, and the resulting Monster (Irwin Keyes) wreaks havoc through General Hospital. A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
