Lionel Atwill

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

141

Movies

Born: February 27, 1885 – April 22, 1946
From: Croydon, London, England, UK

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

Works

81 films

House of Dracula

19455.5

Captain Blood

19357.2

To Be or Not to Be

19427.8

Son of Frankenstein

19396.7

Crime, Inc.

19454.8

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

19436.2

Doctor X

19326.0

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

19426.4

The Ghost of Frankenstein

19425.8

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19397.1

Boom Town

19406.9

House of Frankenstein

19446.1

Mystery of the Wax Museum

19336.5

Man-Made Monster

19416.2

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

19916.3

Captain America

19445.3

Secret of the Blue Room

19335.6

Murders in the Zoo

19335.8

Pardon My Sarong

19426.5

Doom of Dracula

196610.0

Three Comrades

19387.3

Mark of the Vampire

19356.2

The Song of Songs

19336.0

The Three Musketeers

19396.0

Charlie Chan in Panama

19406.8

The Murder Man

19357.1

The Vampire Bat

19335.5

One More River

19345.2

The Great Waltz

19385.9

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

19406.8

The Devil Is a Woman

19356.3

Rendezvous

19354.9

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

19346.0

The Last Train from Madrid

19374.8

Johnny Apollo

19406.8

The Secret of Madame Blanche

19334.2

The Horror Show

19793.4

Junior G-Men of the Air

19426.3

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

19396.1

Balalaika

19395.3

The Great Profile

19406.8

Girl in 313

19405.6

The Road Back

19376.7

Night Monster

19426.2

Absolute Quiet

19365.6

Beggars in Ermine

19347.3

The Horror of It All

19838.3

The Marriage Price

19197.0

Lady in the Death House

19445.7

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

19396.6

The Solitaire Man

19337.0

Stamboul Quest

19345.2

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

1996

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

19425.5

Raiders of Ghost City

19447.0

Lost City of the Jungle

19466.5

The Age of Innocence

19345.2

The Gorilla

19394.8

Fog Island

19455.5

The Wrong Road

19374.8

The Mad Empress

19395.8

Cairo

19426.3

The High Command

19376.0

The Sun Never Sets

19395.5

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

19425.2

Lancer Spy

19376.0

The Great Garrick

19376.3

Genius at Work

19466.7

Secrets of Scotland Yard

19446.3

The Firebird

19346.4

Till We Meet Again

19365.2

Dead End Kids Go To War

1942

The Sphinx

19335.1

Lady of Secrets

19366.7

Eve's Daughter

1918

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

2007

The Silent Witness

19327.0

The Highest Bidder

192110.0

Nana

19346.0

The Wolfman's Cure

1998

The Knife

19297.0