the war effort by working nights as a tool designer for Lockheed Aircraft. Death On November 7, 1943, Frye died of a heart attack at the age of 44 while travelling by bus in Hollywood, a few days before he was scheduled to begin filming the biopic Wilson. He is interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Musical tribute American rock band Alice Cooper wrote and recorded a tribute track to Dwight Frye entitled "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" (intentionally dropping the last "e") that was included on their 1971 LP Love It to Death. On stage, this song would be portrayed with Cooper in a straitjacket trying to escape, and finally breaking free at the end of the song to strangle the nurse with the ties. Devil Doll's 1990 album, Eliogabalus, features the photographed likeness of Dwight Frye in one of its booths. SNFU's 1991 compilation album The Last of the Big Time Suspenders features artwork of Dwight Frye as his "Renfield" character on the front cover. Filmography References Sources External links 1899 births 1943 deaths 20th-century American male actors American Christian Scientists American male film actors American male stage actors Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Deaths from coronary thrombosis Male actors from Kansas People from Salina, Kansas