Lionel Atwill
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 27, 1885
- Died
- April 22, 1946 (aged 61)
- Birthplace
- Croydon, London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lionel Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England. He studied architecture before his stage debut at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1904. He become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, and made his screen debut in 1919. He acted on the stage in Australia but was most famous for his U.S. horror roles in the 1930s. His two most memorable parts were as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner Brothers, 1933), and as Inspector Krogh in Son of Frankenstein (1939), memorably sent up by Kenneth Mars in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein (1974). When he was not cast in macabre roles, Atwill often appeared in the 1930s as righteous-minded authority figures. For example, in 1937's less memorable The Wrong Road for RKO, investigator Atwill persuades a young, bank-robbing ingenue played by Helen Mack and her boyfriend Richard Cromwell to return their ill-gotten $100,000 and give up a life of crime. Two of Atwill's other notable non-horror roles were opposite his contemporary Basil Rathbone in films featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, including a role as Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Fox's 1939 film rendition of the Conan Doyle novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the 1943 Universal Studios film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, in which he played Holmes' archenemy and super-villain, Professor Moriarty. Atwill remained a stalwart of the Universal horror films until his career flagged in the 1940s because of a widely publicized sex scandal in 1941, during the investigation of which he was charged in 1942 with perjury at a trial in which Atwill had been accused of staging a sex orgy at his home. He died while working on the 1946 film serial Lost City of the Jungle. His ashes were once inurned in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lionel Atwill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Filmography
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Movie · as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Movie
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie · as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
The Horror of It All
Movie · as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
The Horror Show
Movie · as (archive footage)
Genius at Work
Movie · as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Lost City of the Jungle
Movie · as Sir Eric Hazarias
House of Dracula
Movie · as Police Inspector Holtz
Fog Island
Movie · as Alec Ritchfield
Crime, Inc.
Movie · as Pat Coyle
House of Frankenstein
Movie · as Inspector Arnz
Lady in the Death House
Movie · as Charles Finch
Raiders of Ghost City
Movie · as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Movie · as Waterlow
Captain America
Movie · as Cyrus Maldor
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Movie · as Mayor of Vasaria
To Be or Not to Be
Movie · as Rawitch
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Movie · as Dr. Bohmer
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Movie · as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Cairo
Movie · as Teutonic Gentleman
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Movie · as Professor Moriarty
Dead End Kids Go To War
Movie · as The Baron
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Movie · as Dr. Fish
Night Monster
Movie · as Dr. King
Pardon My Sarong
Movie · as Varnoff
Junior G-Men of the Air
Movie · as The Baron
Man-Made Monster
Movie · as Dr. Paul Rigas
Charlie Chan in Panama
Movie · as Cliveden Compton
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Movie · as Dr. Suderman
Girl in 313
Movie · as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Johnny Apollo
Movie · as Jim McLaughlin
Boom Town
Movie · as Harry Compton
The Great Profile
Movie · as Dr. Bruce
Son of Frankenstein
Movie · as Inspector Krogh
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Movie · as Dr. James Mortimer
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Movie · as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
The Gorilla
Movie · as Walter Stevens
The Three Musketeers
Movie · as De Rochefort
Balalaika
Movie · as Professor Marakov
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Movie · as Paul Messenger
The Sun Never Sets
Movie · as Hugo Zurof
The Mad Empress
Movie · as General Bazaine
The Great Waltz
Movie · as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Three Comrades
Movie · as Breuer
Lancer Spy
Movie · as Col. Fenwick
The Great Garrick
Movie · as M. Beaumarchais
The High Command
Movie · as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
The Wrong Road
Movie · as Mike Roberts
The Last Train from Madrid
Movie · as Col. Vigo
The Road Back
Movie · as Prosecutor
Absolute Quiet
Movie · as Gerald A. Axton
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Ludwig
Lady of Secrets
Movie · as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
The Murder Man
Movie · as Captain Cole
Mark of the Vampire
Movie · as Inspector Neumann
The Devil Is a Woman
Movie · as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Captain Blood
Movie · as Colonel Bishop
Rendezvous
Movie · as Maj. William Brennan
Stamboul Quest
Movie · as Herr Von Sturm
One More River
Movie · as Brough
The Age of Innocence
Movie · as Julius Beaufort
Nana
Movie · as Colonel André Muffat
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Movie · as Henry Dumont
Beggars in Ermine
Movie · as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
The Firebird
Movie · as John Pointer
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Movie · as Ivan Igor
The Vampire Bat
Movie · as Dr. Otto von Niemann
Murders in the Zoo
Movie · as Eric Gorman
The Sphinx
Movie · as Jerome Breen
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Movie · as Aubrey St. John
The Song of Songs
Movie · as Baron von Merzbach
The Solitaire Man
Movie · as Inspector Wallace
Secret of the Blue Room
Movie · as Robert von Helldorf
Doctor X
Movie · as Dr. Jerry Xavier
The Silent Witness
Movie · as Sir Austin Howard
The Knife
Movie · as The Surgeon
The Highest Bidder
Movie · as Lester
The Marriage Price
Movie · as Kenneth Gordon
Eve's Daughter
Movie · as Courtenay Urquhart