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person_profile-Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill Died at age: 61

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Lionel Atwill

Date of Birth:

Feb 27, 1885

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Apr 22, 1946

Biography of

Lionel Atwill

    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.

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Filmography of

Lionel Atwill

Found 77 Movies in total

Vincent Price's Dracula

Inspector Neumann - (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1986

The Horror of It All

Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1983

The Horror Show

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1979

Genius at Work

Latimer Marsh / The Cobra ( Actor )

... 1946

Lost City of the Jungle

Sir Eric Hazarias ( Actor )

... 1946

House of Dracula

Police Inspector Holtz ( Actor )

... 1945

Crime, Inc.

Pat Coyle ( Actor )

... 1945

Fog Island

Alec Ritchfield ( Actor )

... 1945

House of Frankenstein

Inspector Arnz ( Actor )

... 1944

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Waterlow ( Actor )

... 1944

Raiders of Ghost City

Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel ( Actor )

... 1944

Lady in the Death House

Charles Finch ( Actor )

... 1944

Captain America

Cyrus Maldor ( Actor )

... 1944

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Mayor of Vasaria ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1942

Night Monster

Dr. King ( Actor )

... 1942

Cairo

Teutonic Gentleman ( Actor )

... 1942

Pardon My Sarong

Varnoff ( Actor )

... 1942

Junior G-Men of the Air

The Baron ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1942

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Dr. Bohmer ( Actor )

... 1942

To Be or Not to Be

Rawitch ( Actor )

... 1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham ( Actor )

... 1942

Man-Made Monster

Dr. Paul Rigas ( Actor )

... 1941

Boom Town

Harry Compton ( Actor )

... 1940

The Great Profile

Dr. Bruce ( Actor )

... 1940

Girl in 313

Russell aka Henry Woodruff ( Actor )

... 1940

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Dr. Suderman ( Actor )

... 1940

Johnny Apollo

Jim McLaughlin ( Actor )

... 1940

Charlie Chan in Panama

Cliveden Compton ( Actor )

... 1940

The Mad Empress

General Bazaine ( Actor )

... 1939

Balalaika

Professor Marakov ( Actor )

... 1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Paul Messenger ( Actor )

... 1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand ( Actor )

... 1939

The Sun Never Sets

Hugo Zurof ( Actor )

... 1939

The Gorilla

Walter Stevens ( Actor )

... 1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Dr. James Mortimer ( Actor )

... 1939

The Three Musketeers

De Rochefort ( Actor )

... 1939

Son of Frankenstein

Krogh ( Actor )

... 1939

The Great Waltz

Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried ( Actor )

... 1938

Three Comrades

Breuer ( Actor )

... 1938

The Great Garrick

M. Beaumarchais ( Actor )

... 1937

The Wrong Road

Mike Roberts ( Actor )

... 1937

Lancer Spy

Col. Fenwick ( Actor )

... 1937

The High Command

Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye ( Actor )

... 1937

The Last Train from Madrid

Col. Vigo ( Actor )

... 1937

The Road Back

Prosecutor ( Actor )

... 1937

Absolute Quiet

Gerald A. Axton ( Actor )

... 1936

Till We Meet Again

Ludwig ( Actor )

... 1936

Lady of Secrets

Mr. Stephen Whittaker ( Actor )

... 1936

Captain Blood

Colonel Bishop ( Actor )

... 1935

Rendezvous

Maj. William Brennan ( Actor )

... 1935

The Murder Man

Captain Cole ( Actor )

... 1935

The Devil Is a Woman

Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar ( Actor )

... 1935

Mark of the Vampire

Inspector Neumann ( Actor )

... 1935

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Henry Dumont ( Actor )

... 1934

The Firebird

John Pointer ( Actor )

... 1934

The Age of Innocence

Julius Beaufort ( Actor )

... 1934

One More River

Brough ( Actor )

... 1934

Stamboul Quest

Herr Von Sturm ( Actor )

... 1934

Beggars in Ermine

John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels ( Actor )

... 1934

Nana

Colonel André Muffat ( Actor )

... 1934

The Solitaire Man

Inspector Wallace ( Actor )

... 1933

Secret of the Blue Room

Robert von Helldorf ( Actor )

... 1933

The Song of Songs

Baron von Merzbach ( Actor )

... 1933

The Sphinx

Jerome Breen ( Actor )

... 1933

Murders in the Zoo

Eric Gorman ( Actor )

... 1933

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Ivan Eigor ( Actor )

... 1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Aubrey St. John ( Actor )

... 1933

The Vampire Bat

Dr. Otto von Niemann ( Actor )

... 1933

Doctor X

Dr. Jerry Xavier ( Actor )

... 1932

The Silent Witness

Sir Austin Howard ( Actor )

... 1932

The Highest Bidder

Lester ( Actor )

... 1921

The Marriage Price

Kenneth Gordon ( Actor )

... 1919

Eve's Daughter

Courtenay Urquhart ( Actor )

... 1918