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Lionel Atwill

Born · February 27, 1885

Died · April 22, 1946 (61 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Croydon, London, England, UK

Bio

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

Known for

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein

Captain Blood

Captain Blood

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

Dr. Xavier (archive footage)

2007

The Wolfman's Cure

Inspector Holtz

1998

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

1996

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)

1991

The Horror of It All

Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)

1983

The Horror Show

(archive footage)

1979

Doom of Dracula

Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)

1966

Genius at Work

Latimer Marsh / The Cobra

1946

Lost City of the Jungle

Sir Eric Hazarias

1946

House of Dracula

Police Inspector Holtz

1945

Crime, Inc.

Pat Coyle

1945

Fog Island

Alec Ritchfield

1945

House of Frankenstein

Inspector Arnz

1944

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Waterlow

1944

Raiders of Ghost City

Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel

1944

Lady in the Death House

Charles Finch

1944

Captain America

Cyrus Maldor

1944

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Mayor of Vasaria

1943

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Professor Moriarty

1942

Night Monster

Dr. King

1942

Dead End Kids Go To War

The Baron

1942

Cairo

Teutonic Gentleman

1942

Pardon My Sarong

Varnoff

1942

Junior G-Men of the Air

The Baron

1942

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Dr. Fish

1942

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Dr. Bohmer

1942

To Be or Not to Be

Rawitch

1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham

1942

Man-Made Monster

Dr. Paul Rigas

1941

Boom Town

Harry Compton

1940

The Great Profile

Dr. Bruce

1940

Girl in 313

Russell aka Henry Woodruff

1940

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Dr. Suderman

1940

Johnny Apollo

Jim McLaughlin

1940

Charlie Chan in Panama

Cliveden Compton

1940

The Mad Empress

General Bazaine

1939

Balalaika

Professor Marakov

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Paul Messenger

1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand

1939

The Sun Never Sets

Hugo Zurof

1939

The Gorilla

Walter Stevens

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Dr. James Mortimer

1939

The Three Musketeers

De Rochefort

1939

Son of Frankenstein

Inspector Krogh

1939

The Great Waltz

Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried

1938

Three Comrades

Breuer

1938

The Great Garrick

M. Beaumarchais

1937

The Wrong Road

Mike Roberts

1937

Lancer Spy

Col. Fenwick

1937

The High Command

Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye

1937

The Last Train from Madrid

Col. Vigo

1937

The Road Back

Prosecutor

1937

Absolute Quiet

Gerald A. Axton

1936

Till We Meet Again

Ludwig

1936

Lady of Secrets

Mr. Stephen Whittaker

1936

Captain Blood

Colonel Bishop

1935

Rendezvous

Maj. William Brennan

1935

The Murder Man

Captain Cole

1935

The Devil Is a Woman

Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar

1935

Mark of the Vampire

Inspector Neumann

1935

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Henry Dumont

1934

The Firebird

John Pointer

1934

The Age of Innocence

Julius Beaufort

1934

One More River

Brough

1934

Stamboul Quest

Herr Von Sturm

1934

Beggars in Ermine

John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels

1934

Nana

Colonel André Muffat

1934

The Solitaire Man

Inspector Wallace

1933

Secret of the Blue Room

Robert von Helldorf

1933

The Song of Songs

Baron von Merzbach

1933

The Sphinx

Jerome Breen

1933

Murders in the Zoo

Eric Gorman

1933

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Ivan Eigor

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Aubrey St. John

1933

The Vampire Bat

Dr. Otto von Niemann

1933

Doctor X

Dr. Jerry Xavier

1932

The Silent Witness

Sir Austin Howard

1932

The Knife

The Surgeon

1929

The Highest Bidder

Lester

1921

The Marriage Price

Kenneth Gordon

1919

Eve's Daughter

Courtenay Urquhart

1918