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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
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
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2007
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
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1996
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
5.7
1991
The Horror of It All
Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
8.0
1983
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
6.0
1979
Doom of Dracula
Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
0.0
1966
Genius at Work
Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
6.0
1946
Lost City of the Jungle
Sir Eric Hazarias
6.2
1946
House of Dracula
Police Inspector Holtz
5.5
1945
Crime, Inc.
Pat Coyle
4.2
1945
Fog Island
Alec Ritchfield
5.4
1945
House of Frankenstein
Inspector Arnz
6.0
1944
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Waterlow
5.3
1944
Raiders of Ghost City
Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
6.0
1944
Lady in the Death House
Charles Finch
5.4
1944
Captain America
Cyrus Maldor
5.5
1944
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Mayor of Vasaria
6.2
1943
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Professor Moriarty
6.3
1942
Night Monster
Dr. King
6.2
1942
Dead End Kids Go To War
The Baron
0.0
1942
Cairo
Teutonic Gentleman
5.8
1942
Pardon My Sarong
Varnoff
6.5
1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
The Baron
6.0
1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Dr. Fish
5.1
1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Dr. Bohmer
5.8
1942
To Be or Not to Be
Rawitch
7.8
1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
5.2
1942
Man-Made Monster
Dr. Paul Rigas
6.1
1941
Boom Town
Harry Compton
6.9
1940
The Great Profile
Dr. Bruce
6.3
1940
Girl in 313
Russell aka Henry Woodruff
5.6
1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Dr. Suderman
6.7
1940
Johnny Apollo
Jim McLaughlin
6.8
1940
Charlie Chan in Panama
Cliveden Compton
6.8
1940
The Mad Empress
General Bazaine
5.6
1939
Balalaika
Professor Marakov
4.2
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Paul Messenger
5.6
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
6.6
1939
The Sun Never Sets
Hugo Zurof
4.8
1939
The Gorilla
Walter Stevens
4.7
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. James Mortimer
7.1
1939
The Three Musketeers
De Rochefort
5.8
1939
Son of Frankenstein
Inspector Krogh
6.7
1939
The Great Waltz
Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
5.6
1938
Three Comrades
Breuer
7.2
1938
The Great Garrick
M. Beaumarchais
5.9
1937
The Wrong Road
Mike Roberts
4.3
1937
Lancer Spy
Col. Fenwick
6.0
1937
The High Command
Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
5.6
1937
The Last Train from Madrid
Col. Vigo
4.6
1937
The Road Back
Prosecutor
7.2
1937
Absolute Quiet
Gerald A. Axton
5.5
1936
Till We Meet Again
Ludwig
5.0
1936
Lady of Secrets
Mr. Stephen Whittaker
6.0
1936
Captain Blood
Colonel Bishop
7.2
1935
Rendezvous
Maj. William Brennan
4.8
1935
The Murder Man
Captain Cole
6.9
1935
The Devil Is a Woman
Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
6.3
1935
Mark of the Vampire
Inspector Neumann
6.1
1935
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Henry Dumont
6.0
1934
The Firebird
John Pointer
5.5
1934
The Age of Innocence
Julius Beaufort
5.4
1934
One More River
Brough
5.3
1934
Stamboul Quest
Herr Von Sturm
5.4
1934
Beggars in Ermine
John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
6.3
1934
Nana
Colonel André Muffat
5.0
1934
The Solitaire Man
Inspector Wallace
6.5
1933
Secret of the Blue Room
Robert von Helldorf
5.6
1933
The Song of Songs
Baron von Merzbach
6.0
1933
The Sphinx
Jerome Breen
4.8
1933
Murders in the Zoo
Eric Gorman
5.8
1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Ivan Eigor
6.5
1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Aubrey St. John
4.0
1933
The Vampire Bat
Dr. Otto von Niemann
5.4
1933
Doctor X
Dr. Jerry Xavier
6.0
1932
The Silent Witness
Sir Austin Howard
5.5
1932
The Knife
The Surgeon
0.0
1929
The Highest Bidder
Lester
0.0
1921
The Marriage Price
Kenneth Gordon
0.0
1919
Eve's Daughter
Courtenay Urquhart
0.0
1918
The Wolfman's Cure
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