Lionel Atwill
Age: N/A | From: Croydon, London, England, UK
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Aliases: Лайонел Этвилл , Lionel Alfred William Atwill
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
(1939) Dr. James Mortimer
Captain Blood
(1935) Colonel Bishop
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
(1942) Moriarty
House of Dracula
(1945) Police Inspector Holtz
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
(1943) Mayor of Vasaria
Mystery of the Wax Museum
(1933) Ivan Eigor
The Ghost of Frankenstein
(1942) Dr. Bohmer
Son of Frankenstein
(1939) Inspector KroghActing
| 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 |
