Person Details

Birthday: 1885-03-01 22:10:43

Death: 1946-04-22 22:10:43

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Croydon, London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 64

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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

Most Famous Work

The Hound of the Baskervilles
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7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

(1939) Dr. James Mortimer
Captain Blood
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7

Captain Blood

(1935) Colonel Bishop
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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6
House of Dracula
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6

House of Dracula

(1945) Police Inspector Holtz
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
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6

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

(1943) Mayor of Vasaria
Mystery of the Wax Museum
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7

Mystery of the Wax Museum

(1933) Ivan Eigor
The Ghost of Frankenstein
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6

The Ghost of Frankenstein

(1942) Dr. Bohmer
Son of Frankenstein
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7

Son of Frankenstein

(1939) Inspector Krogh

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2007 Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
1996 N/A
1991 Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
1986 Inspector Neumann - (archive footage)
1983 Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
1979 (archive footage)
1966 Arntz, police officer
1946 Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Sir Eric Hazarias
1945 Police Inspector Holtz
Pat Coyle
Alec Ritchfield
1944 Inspector Arnz
Waterlow
Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Charles Finch
Cyrus Maldor
1943 Mayor of Vasaria
1942 Moriarty
Dr. King
The Baron
Teutonic Gentleman
Varnoff
The Baron
Dr. Fish
Dr. Bohmer
Rawitch
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
1941 Dr. Paul Rigas
1940 Harry Compton
Dr. Bruce
Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Dr. Suderman
Jim McLaughlin
Cliveden Compton
1939 General Bazaine
Professor Marakov
Paul Messenger
Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
Hugo Zurof
Walter Stevens
Dr. James Mortimer
De Rochefort
Inspector Krogh
1938 Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Breuer
1937 M. Beaumarchais
Mike Roberts
Col. Fenwick
Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
Col. Vigo
Prosecutor
1936 Gerald A. Axton
Ludwig
Mr. Stephen Whittaker
1935 Colonel Bishop
Maj. William Brennan
Captain Cole
Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Inspector Neumann
1934 Henry Dumont
John Pointer
Julius Beaufort
Brough
Herr Von Sturm
John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Colonel André Muffat
1933 Inspector Wallace
Robert von Helldorf
Baron von Merzbach
Jerome Breen
Eric Gorman
Ivan Eigor
Aubrey St. John
Dr. Otto von Niemann
1932 Dr. Jerry Xavier
Sir Austin Howard
1921 Lester
1919 Kenneth Gordon
1918 Courtenay Urquhart
Year Character Movie/Tv

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