Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan)’s Timeline and Summary
- Dr. Waldman teaches Henry Frankenstein in medical school; Frankenstein joins the medical staff.
- Frankenstein wants to create life and asks for access to dead bodies; Waldman says that's not possible, and so Frankenstein leaves the staff.
- Frankenstein locks himself in his remote lab for months.
- At the urging of Frankenstein's fiancée Elizabeth, Waldman goes to try to find out what Frankenstein is up to.
- Waldman is there when Frankenstein brings a monster to life.
- He's also there over the next days. He and Frankenstein discover that the monster has killed Frankenstein's assistant Fritz.
- They knock out the monster with a hypodermic injection.
- The two decide to destroy the monster. Frankenstein goes back to Elizabeth, and Waldman stays behind to dissect the monster and kill it.
- Waldman begins the dissection, but the monster isn't dead, and strangles him.
- Bad end for Waldman.