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Lewis Stone
Born · November 14, 1879
Died · September 12, 1953 (73 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Bio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball, Lewis Stone's hair turned gray prematurely (reportedly by age 20). Lewis served in the United States Army in the Spanish–American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for The Patriot. After that, he appeared in seven films with Greta Garbo, spanning both the silent and early sound periods. He played the role of Dr. Otternschlag in the Garbo film Grand Hotel, in which he utters the famous closing line: "Grand Hotel. People coming. Going. Nothing ever happens." He played a larger role in the 1933 Garbo film Queen Christina. His appearance in the successful prison film The Big House furthered his career. He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). In 1937, Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney Andy Hardy series. Stone appeared as the judge in fifteen movies, beginning with You're Only Young Once (1937). Stone died in Hancock Park, Los Angeles on September 12, 1953, aged 73. Lewis Stone was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Blvd.
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2004
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
6.7
2003
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
6.9
1976
The Big Parade of Comedy
Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
6.3
1964
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Captain Holt
5.9
1953
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Cardinal
6.8
1952
Scaramouche
Georges de Valmorin
7.1
1952
Talk About a Stranger
William J. Wardlaw
6.1
1952
Just This Once
Judge Samuel Coulter
3.8
1952
It's a Big Country
Church Sexton
5.3
1951
The Unknown Man
Judge James V. Hulbrook
4.8
1951
Angels in the Outfield
Arnold P. Hapgood
6.7
1951
Bannerline
Josh
6.0
1951
Night Into Morning
Dr. Horace Snyder
5.8
1951
Grounds for Marriage
Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
4.3
1951
Stars in My Crown
Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
6.9
1950
Key to the City
Judge Silas Standish
6.1
1950
Any Number Can Play
Ben Gavery Snelerr
6.9
1949
The Sun Comes Up
Arthur Norton
6.4
1949
State of the Union
Sam Thorndyke
6.7
1948
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy
5.3
1946
Three Wise Fools
Judge James Trumbell
5.0
1946
The Hoodlum Saint
Father Nolan
5.2
1946
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Judge Hardy
5.7
1944
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
6.0
1944
Some of the Best
Himself - Commentator
0.0
1944
Plan for Destruction
Commentator
5.8
1943
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Judge Hardy
4.6
1942
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy
5.6
1942
The Bugle Sounds
Col. Jack Lawton
6.0
1942
Holiday Greetings 1941
Himself
0.0
1941
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy
5.7
1941
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Judge Hardy
5.3
1941
Sporting Blood
Davis Lockwood
4.3
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Judge Hardy
5.1
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
5.5
1940
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
Judge Hardy
0.0
1940
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
Himself / Narrator
0.0
1940
Judge Hardy and Son
Judge Hardy
5.3
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
The President
2.0
1939
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Judge Hardy
5.5
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
0.0
1939
The Hardys Ride High
Judge Hardy
6.0
1939
The Ice Follies of 1939
Douglas Tolliver Jr.
5.6
1939
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Judge James K. Hardy
5.3
1939
Out West with the Hardys
Judge Hardy
6.3
1938
The Chaser
Delford Prescott
6.0
1938
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy
6.1
1938
Yellow Jack
Maj. Walter Reed
5.6
1938
Stolen Heaven
Joseph Langauer
0.0
1938
Judge Hardy's Children
Judge Hardy
6.3
1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
5.0
1938
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Jackson Douglas
6.0
1937
You're Only Young Once
Judge Hardy
5.5
1937
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Lawrence Fontaine
5.5
1937
The Thirteenth Chair
Inspector Marney
5.8
1937
Outcast
Anthony Abbott
0.0
1937
Don't Turn 'em Loose
John Webster
4.8
1936
Sworn Enemy
Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
5.3
1936
Suzy
Baron
5.8
1936
Small Town Girl
Dr. Dakin
6.2
1936
The Unguarded Hour
General Lawrence
6.2
1936
Three Godfathers
James 'Doc' Underwood
6.8
1936
Shipmates Forever
Adm. Richard Melville
6.5
1935
China Seas
Tom Davids
6.3
1935
Woman Wanted
District Attorney
6.3
1935
Public Hero Number 1
Prison Warden
6.2
1935
West Point of the Air
Gen. Carter
6.0
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Adam Paris
6.0
1935
David Copperfield
Mr. Wickfield
6.6
1935
Treasure Island
Captain Smollett
6.5
1934
The Girl from Missouri
Frank Cousins
6.9
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
6.0
1934
The Mystery of Mr. X
Connor
7.0
1934
You Can't Buy Everything
John Burton
7.0
1934
Queen Christina
Oxenstierna
6.8
1933
Bureau of Missing Persons
Police Captain Webb
5.6
1933
Looking Forward
Gabriel Service Sr.
6.2
1933
The White Sister
Prince Guido Chiaromonte
5.4
1933
Men Must Fight
Edward Seward
5.7
1933
The Son-Daughter
Dr. Dong Tong
7.0
1932
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Nyland Smith
5.5
1932
Divorce In The Family
John Parker
6.0
1932
Unashamed
Henry Trask
6.3
1932
Red-Headed Woman
William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
6.7
1932
Night Court
Judge William Osgood
6.4
1932
New Morals for Old
Mr. Thomas
4.2
1932
Grand Hotel
Doctor Otternschlag
6.9
1932
Letty Lynton
District Attorney Haney
6.8
1932
The Wet Parade
Roger Chilcote
5.8
1932
Mata Hari
Andriani
6.2
1931
Strictly Dishonorable
Judge Dempsey
5.1
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Carlo Boretti
5.9
1931
The Phantom of Paris
Inspector Costaud
5.9
1931
The Bargain
Maitland White
0.0
1931
Always Goodbye
John Graham
0.0
1931
My Past
John Thornley
3.8
1931
The Secret Six
Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
5.8
1931
Father's Son
William Emory
0.0
1931
Inspiration
Raymond Delval
6.1
1931
Passion Flower
Antonio Morado
5.6
1930
The Office Wife
Larry Fellowes
5.0
1930
Romance
Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
6.3
1930
The Big House
Warden James Adams
6.7
1930
Strictly Unconventional
Clive Champion-Cheney
3.5
1930
Their Own Desire
Henry 'Hal' Marlett
4.8
1929
Madame X
Louis Floriot
6.0
1929
Wonder of Women
Stephen Trombolt
3.0
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Edward West
6.0
1929
Wild Orchids
John Sterling
6.6
1929
A Woman of Affairs
Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
6.7
1928
Freedom of the Press
Daniel Steele
0.0
1928
The Patriot
Count Pahlen
5.0
1928
The Foreign Legion
Col. Destin
0.0
1928
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Menelaus
3.5
1927
The Prince of Headwaiters
Pierre
0.0
1927
Lonesome Ladies
John Fosdick
0.0
1927
The Notorious Lady
Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
7.0
1927
An Affair of the Follies
Hammersley
0.0
1927
The Blonde Saint
Sebastian Maure
0.0
1926
Midnight Lovers
Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
6.0
1926
Don Juan's 3 Nights
Johann Aradi
1.0
1926
Old Loves and New
Gervas Carew
3.0
1926
The Girl from Montmartre
Jerome Hautrive
0.0
1926
Too Much Money
Robert Broadley
0.0
1926
What Fools Men
Joseph Greer
1.0
1925
Fine Clothes
Earl of Denham
0.0
1925
The Lady Who Lied
Horace Pierpont
0.0
1925
The Talker
Harry Lennox
1.0
1925
Confessions of a Queen
The King
7.0
1925
Cheaper to Marry
Jim Knight
0.0
1925
The Lost World
Sir John Roxton
6.7
1925
Inez from Hollywood
Stewart Cuyler
0.0
1924
Husbands and Lovers
James Livingston
0.0
1924
Cytherea
Lee Randon
0.0
1924
Why Men Leave Home
John Emerson
1.0
1924
The Stranger
Keith Darrant
0.0
1924
Scaramouche
The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
7.2
1923
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Garth McBride
0.0
1923
The Dangerous Age
John Emerson
0.0
1923
The World's Applause
John Elliott
0.0
1923
Trifling Women
The Marquis Ferroni
1.0
1922
The Prisoner of Zenda
Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
6.2
1922
A Fool There Was
John Schuyler
0.0
1922
The Rosary
Father Brian Kelly
0.0
1922
The White Mouse
Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
0.0
1921
Pilgrims of the Night
Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
0.0
1921
The Child Thou Gavest Me
Edward Berkeley
0.0
1921
Don't Neglect Your Wife
Langdon Masters
0.0
1921
The Golden Snare
Sergeant Philip Raine
0.0
1921
The Northern Trail
Jan Ducet
0.0
1921
Beau Revel
Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
4.0
1921
The Concert
Augustus Martinot
0.0
1921
Held by the Enemy
Capt. Gordon Haine
0.0
1920
Nomads of the North
Cpl. O'Connor
5.5
1920
Milestones
John Rhead
0.0
1920
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Himself
6.0
1920
The River's End
Derwent Conniston/John Keith
0.0
1920
Man's Desire
Tom Denton
0.0
1919
The Man of Bronze
John Adams
0.0
1918
Inside the Lines
Captain Cavendish
0.0
1918
According to the Code
Basil Beckenridge
0.0
1916
The Havoc
Richard Craig
0.0
1916
Honor's Altar
Warren Woods
0.0
1916