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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Acted in
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
The Horror of It All
1983
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
Doom of Dracula
1966
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
Genius at Work
1946
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Lost City of the Jungle
1946
as Sir Eric Hazarias
House of Dracula
1945
as Police Inspector Holtz
Crime, Inc.
1945
as Pat Coyle
Fog Island
1945
as Alec Ritchfield
House of Frankenstein
1944
as Inspector Arnz
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944
as Waterlow
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Lady in the Death House
1944
as Charles Finch
Captain America
1944
as Cyrus Maldor
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
as Mayor of Vasaria
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
as Professor Moriarty
Night Monster
1942
as Dr. King
Dead End Kids Go To War
1942
as The Baron
Cairo
1942
as Teutonic Gentleman
Pardon My Sarong
1942
as Varnoff
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942
as The Baron
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942
as Dr. Fish
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Dr. Bohmer
To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Rawitch
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Man-Made Monster
1941
as Dr. Paul Rigas
Boom Town
1940
as Harry Compton
The Great Profile
1940
as Dr. Bruce
Girl in 313
1940
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
as Dr. Suderman
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Jim McLaughlin
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940
as Cliveden Compton
The Mad Empress
1939
as General Bazaine
Balalaika
1939
as Professor Marakov
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
as Paul Messenger
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
The Sun Never Sets
1939
as Hugo Zurof
The Gorilla
1939
as Walter Stevens
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
as Dr. James Mortimer
The Three Musketeers
1939
as De Rochefort
Son of Frankenstein
1939
as Inspector Krogh
The Great Waltz
1938
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Three Comrades
1938
as Breuer
The Great Garrick
1937
as M. Beaumarchais
The Wrong Road
1937
as Mike Roberts
Lancer Spy
1937
as Col. Fenwick
The High Command
1937
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
as Col. Vigo
The Road Back
1937
as Prosecutor
Absolute Quiet
1936
as Gerald A. Axton
Till We Meet Again
1936
as Ludwig
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Captain Blood
1935
as Colonel Bishop
Rendezvous
1935
as Maj. William Brennan
The Murder Man
1935
as Captain Cole
The Devil Is a Woman
1935
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Mark of the Vampire
1935
as Inspector Neumann
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934
as Henry Dumont
The Firebird
1934
as John Pointer
The Age of Innocence
1934
as Julius Beaufort
One More River
1934
as Brough
Stamboul Quest
1934
as Herr Von Sturm
Beggars in Ermine
1934
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Nana
1934
as Colonel André Muffat
The Solitaire Man
1933
as Inspector Wallace
Secret of the Blue Room
1933
as Robert von Helldorf
The Song of Songs
1933
as Baron von Merzbach
The Sphinx
1933
as Jerome Breen
Murders in the Zoo
1933
as Eric Gorman
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
as Ivan Eigor
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933
as Aubrey St. John
The Vampire Bat
1933
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
Doctor X
1932
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
The Silent Witness
1932
as Sir Austin Howard
The Knife
1929
as The Surgeon
The Highest Bidder
1921
as Lester
The Marriage Price
1919
as Kenneth Gordon
Eve's Daughter
1918
as Courtenay Urquhart
