James Brewster

Doctor Charles Brewster is a fictional scientist and the main character from the 1943 "Poverty Row" monster movie, The Ape Man. He was played by actor Bela Lugosi.

Biography
Doctor James Brewster was your average middle-aged scientist who was never content with doing things the way other people would do them. Instead, he got it in his head that it might be fun to play with gorilla spinal fluid. When his experiments did not mete out the results he desired in a timely manner, he began injecting the spinal fluid into his own back. Naturally, no good came from this. James Brewster mutated into an exceedingly hairy man with a sloped gait and a murderous rage.

Brewster realized that his only hope for ever becoming normal again relied upon countering the effects of the gorilla spinal fluid with spinal fluid from a human (naturally). He sent his gorilla henchman (yes, you read that correctly. Gorilla henchman) out to procure spinal fluid from living donors, which of course resulted in killing off the host. The counter-agent worked briefly for a time, but ultimately Doctor Brewster found himself turning back into a an ape-man.