Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan)’s Timeline and Summary

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• 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.