Regarding those mummy films, Lon Chaney, Jr. portrayed Karis (sp?), the slow-moving mummy in those four Universal horror films. (Boris Karloff had portrayed the mummy in a earlier film.)
Actor Dick Foran (of beautiful Flemington, NJ) as a young archaeologist appeared in the first couple of mummy films, along with the always-wonderfully creepy British actor, George Zucco and Turkish actor Turham Bey.
The first begins in an all archaeological dig in Egypt. The second film occurs many years later, where Turham Bey brings Karis to a Midwestern university town, where retired Professor Dick Foran resides, to kill the professor for violating Karis’s pyramid in the first film.There’s also a beautiful, young American woman, who is the spitting image/reincarnation of an Egyptian princess, buried with Karis centuries before and whom the love-mstarved Karis of has an unrequited love for.
After Karis is presumably destroyed in that Midwestern town, he inexplicably shows up in a town in Louisiana in the next film, still carrying a torch for that comely Egyptian princess.
It would have been interesting if Dan Curtis had introduced a mummy storyline in conjunction with the Laura Collins/great god Ra plot. Oh, well, what might have been on DS.