Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill
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
Name Lionel Atwill
Also Known As Лайонел Этвилл, Lionel Alfred William Atwill
Birthday 1885-02-27
Deathday 1946-04-22
Gender Male
IMDB Lionel Atwill profile on IMDB
Place of Birth Croydon, London, England, UK
As: Rawitch
1942-03-05
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As: Dr. Bohmer
1942-03-13
The Ghost of Franken...
As: Inspector Krogh
1939-01-13
Son of Frankenstein...
As: Inspector Arnz
1944-12-01
House of Frankenstei...
As: Mayor of Vasaria
1943-03-05
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1932-08-03
Doctor X...
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1945-12-07
House of Dracula...
As: Ivan Eigor
1933-02-18
Mystery of the Wax M...
As: Dr. James Mortimer
1939-03-24
The Hound of the Bas...
As: Captain Cole
1935-07-12
The Murder Man...
As: Alec Ritchfield
1945-02-15
Fog Island...
As: Inspector Neumann
1935-04-26
Mark of the Vampire...
As: Pat Coyle
1945-04-15
Crime, Inc....
As: Dr. Ralph Benson, po
1942-02-27
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As: Capt. Don Pasqual 'P
1935-05-03
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As: Dr. Otto von Niemann
1933-01-21
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1942-08-17
Cairo...
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1938-11-04
The Great Waltz...
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1934-07-13
Stamboul Quest...
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1940-05-02
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1940-03-01
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1935-12-26
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As: Eric Gorman
1933-03-31
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1940-05-31
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1940-04-19
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1944-03-15
Lady in the Death Ho...
As: Moriarty
1942-12-25
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1933-06-01
The Sphinx...
As: Maj. William Brennan
1935-10-25
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1940-08-30
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1942-03-27
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1941-03-28
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As: Prof. Roger Chauncey
1939-07-07
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1933-02-03
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1939-05-26
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1942-10-20
Night Monster...
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1933-09-22
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1934-08-06
One More River...
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1937-10-08
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As: Erich von Rugen, ali
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1934-09-14
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1939-02-17
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1939-12-15
Balalaika...
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1939-11-24
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1934-12-24
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As: M. Beaumarchais
1937-10-30
The Great Garrick...
As: Robert von Helldorf
1933-07-20
Secret of the Blue R...
As: John 'Flint' Dawson
1934-02-21
Beggars in Ermine...
As: Maj. Gen. Sir John S
1937-08-23
The High Command...
As: Gerald A. Axton
1936-04-24
Absolute Quiet...
As: Waterlow
1944-07-26
Secrets of Scotland ...
As: Sir Eric Hazarias
1946-04-23
Lost City of the Jun...
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1939-05-31
The Sun Never Sets...
As: Mike Roberts
1937-10-11
The Wrong Road...
As: John Pointer
1934-11-03
The Firebird...
As: Ludwig
1936-04-04
Till We Meet Again...
As: Col. Vigo
1937-06-11
The Last Train from ...
As: Latimer Marsh / The
1946-10-20
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As: Colonel André Muffa
1934-02-01
Nana...
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1940-08-30
The Great Profile...
As: Dr. Xavier (archive
2007-03-10
Terror in the Pharao...
As: Varnoff
1942-08-07
Pardon My Sarong...
As: The Baron
1942-06-30
Junior G-Men of the ...
As: Sir Austin Howard
1932-02-07
The Silent Witness...
As: Lester
1921-01-01
The Highest Bidder...
As: Breuer
1938-06-02
Three Comrades...
As: Mr. Stephen Whittak
1936-02-21
Lady of Secrets...
As: Arntz, police office
1966-01-01
Doom of Dracula...
As: General Bazaine
1939-12-16
The Mad Empress...
As: Cyrus Maldor
1944-02-05
Captain America...
As: Unknown
1996-07-01
In the Footsteps of ...
As: Prosecutor
1937-06-01
The Road Back...
As: Courtenay Urquhart
1918-03-04
Eve's Daughter...
As: The Baron
1942-10-02
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As: Kenneth Gordon
1919-03-09
The Marriage Price...
As: Dr. Otto von Niemann
1983-02-23
The Horror of It All...
As: (archive footage)
1979-02-06
The Horror Show...
As: Inspector Neumann -
1986-01-01
Vincent Price's Drac...
As: Doctor Bohmer / Krog
1991-01-01
Frankenstein: A Cine...
As: Police Official (arc
1965-01-01
The Son of Frankenst...