Lionel Atwill
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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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Movies (79)
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007 · Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991 · Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
The Horror of It All
1983 · Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
The Horror Show
1979 · (archive footage)
Genius at Work
1946 · Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Lost City of the Jungle
1946 · Sir Eric Hazarias
House of Dracula
1945 · Police Inspector Holtz
Crime, Inc.
1945 · Pat Coyle
Fog Island
1945 · Alec Ritchfield
House of Frankenstein
1944 · Inspector Arnz
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944 · Waterlow
Raiders of Ghost City
1944 · Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Lady in the Death House
1944 · Charles Finch
Captain America
1944 · Cyrus Maldor
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943 · Mayor of Vasaria
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942 · Professor Moriarty
Night Monster
1942 · Dr. King
Dead End Kids Go To War
1942 · The Baron
Cairo
1942 · Teutonic Gentleman
Pardon My Sarong
1942 · Varnoff
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942 · The Baron
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942 · Dr. Fish
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Dr. Bohmer
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Rawitch
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942 · Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Man-Made Monster
1941 · Dr. Paul Rigas
Boom Town
1940 · Harry Compton
The Great Profile
1940 · Dr. Bruce
Girl in 313
1940 · Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940 · Dr. Suderman
Johnny Apollo
1940 · Jim McLaughlin
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940 · Cliveden Compton
The Mad Empress
1939 · General Bazaine
Balalaika
1939 · Professor Marakov
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · Paul Messenger
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939 · Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
The Sun Never Sets
1939 · Hugo Zurof
The Gorilla
1939 · Walter Stevens
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 · Dr. James Mortimer
The Three Musketeers
1939 · De Rochefort
Son of Frankenstein
1939 · Inspector Krogh
The Great Waltz
1938 · Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Three Comrades
1938 · Breuer
The Great Garrick
1937 · M. Beaumarchais
The Wrong Road
1937 · Mike Roberts
Lancer Spy
1937 · Col. Fenwick
The High Command
1937 · Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
The Last Train from Madrid
1937 · Col. Vigo
The Road Back
1937 · Prosecutor
Absolute Quiet
1936 · Gerald A. Axton
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Ludwig
Lady of Secrets
1936 · Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Captain Blood
1935 · Colonel Bishop
Rendezvous
1935 · Maj. William Brennan
The Murder Man
1935 · Captain Cole
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Inspector Neumann
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934 · Henry Dumont
The Firebird
1934 · John Pointer
The Age of Innocence
1934 · Julius Beaufort
One More River
1934 · Brough
Stamboul Quest
1934 · Herr Von Sturm
Beggars in Ermine
1934 · John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Nana
1934 · Colonel André Muffat
The Solitaire Man
1933 · Inspector Wallace
Secret of the Blue Room
1933 · Robert von Helldorf
The Song of Songs
1933 · Baron von Merzbach
The Sphinx
1933 · Jerome Breen
Murders in the Zoo
1933 · Eric Gorman
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 · Ivan Igor
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · Aubrey St. John
The Vampire Bat
1933 · Dr. Otto von Niemann
Doctor X
1932 · Dr. Jerry Xavier
The Silent Witness
1932 · Sir Austin Howard
The Knife
1929 · The Surgeon
The Highest Bidder
1921 · Lester
The Marriage Price
1919 · Kenneth Gordon
Eve's Daughter
1918 · Courtenay Urquhart
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