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Lionel Atwill
Actor
Born February 27, 1885Died April 22, 1946 (61 years)
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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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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
| 1998 | Universal Horror · as Cast |
| 1985 | The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes · as Professor Moriarty |
| 1983 | The Horror of It All · as Dr. Otto Von Niemann (archive Footage) |
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as (archive Footage) |
| 1963 | Tri plyus dva · as Mystery Novel Character |
| 1946 | Genius at Work · as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra |
| 1946 | Lost City of the Jungle · as Sir Eric Hazarias |
| 1945 | House of Dracula · as Police Inspector Holtz |
| 1945 | Crime, Inc. · as Pat Coyle |
| 1945 | Fog Island · as Alec Ritchfield |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein · as Inspector Arnz |
| 1944 | Secrets of Scotland Yard · as Waterlow |
| 1944 | Raiders of Ghost City · as Erich Von Rugen, Alias Alex Morel |
| 1944 | Lady in the Death House · as Charles Finch |
| 1944 | Captain America · as Cyrus Maldor |
| 1943 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man · as Mayor Of Vasaria |
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon · as Professor Moriarty |
| 1942 | Night Monster · as Dr. King |
| 1942 | Cairo · as Teutonic Gentleman |
| 1942 | Pardon My Sarong · as Varnoff |
| 1942 | The Strange Case of Doctor Rx · as Dr. Fish |
| 1942 | Junior G-Men of the Air · as The Baron |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein · as Dr. Bohmer |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be · as Rawitch |
| 1942 | The Mad Doctor of Market Street · as Dr. Ralph Benson, Posing As Graham |
| 1941 | Man Made Monster · as Dr. Paul Rigas |
| 1940 | Boom Town · as Harry Compton |
| 1940 | The Great Profile · as Dr. Bruce |
| 1940 | Girl in 313 · as Russell Aka Henry Woodruff |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise · as Dr. Suderman |
| 1940 | Johnny Apollo · as Jim Mclaughlin |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan in Panama · as Cliveden Compton |
| 1939 | Balalaika · as Professor Marakov |
| 1939 | The Mad Empress · as General Bazaine |
| 1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare · as Paul Messenger |
| 1939 | The Sun Never Sets · as Hugo Zurof |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation · as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand |
| 1939 | The Gorilla · as Walter Stevens |
| 1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Dr. James Mortimer |
| 1939 | The Three Musketeers · as De Rochefort |
| 1939 | Son of Frankenstein · as Inspector Krogh |
| 1938 | The Great Waltz · as Count Anton 'tony' Hohenfried |
| 1938 | Three Comrades · as Breuer |
| 1937 | The Great Garrick · as M. Beaumarchais |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road · as Mike Roberts |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy · as Col. Fenwick |
| 1937 | The High Command · as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye |
| 1937 | The Last Train from Madrid · as Col. Vigo |
| 1937 | The Road Back · as Prosecutor |
| 1936 | Absolute Quiet · as Gerald A. Axton |
| 1936 | Till We Meet Again · as Ludwig |
| 1936 | Lady of Secrets · as Mr. Stephen Whittaker |
| 1935 | Captain Blood · as Colonel Bishop |
| 1935 | Rendezvous · as Maj. William Brennan |
| 1935 | The Murder Man · as Captain Cole |
| 1935 | The Devil Is a Woman · as Capt. Don Pasqual 'pasqualito' Costelar |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire · as Inspector Neumann |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head · as Henry Dumont |
| 1934 | The Firebird · as John Pointer |
| 1934 | The Age of Innocence · as Julius Beaufort |
| 1934 | One More River · as Brough |
| 1934 | Stamboul Quest · as Herr Von Sturm |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine · as John 'flint' Dawson Aka John Daniels |
| 1934 | Nana · as Colonel André Muffat |
| 1933 | The Solitaire Man · as Inspector Wallace |
| 1933 | Secret of the Blue Room · as Robert Von Helldorf |
| 1933 | The Song of Songs · as Baron Von Merzbach |
| 1933 | The Sphinx · as Jerome Breen |
| 1933 | Murders in the Zoo · as Eric Gorman |
| 1933 | Mystery of the Wax Museum · as Ivan Eigor |
| 1933 | The Secret of Madame Blanche · as Aubrey St. John |
| 1933 | The Vampire Bat · as Dr. Otto Von Niemann |
| 1932 | Doctor X · as Dr. Jerry Xavier |
| 1932 | The Silent Witness · as Sir Austin Howard |