Lionel Atwill
Acting
1885 – 1946 · Croydon, London, England, UK
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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
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Film · 2007
Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
The Wolfman's Cure
Film · 1998
Inspector Holtz
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Film · 1996
Role
★ 8.3The Horror of It All
Film · 1983
Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
★ 3.4The Horror Show
Film · 1979
(archive footage)
★ 10.0Doom of Dracula
Film · 1966
Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
★ 6.7Genius at Work
Film · 1946
Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
★ 6.5Lost City of the Jungle
Film · 1946
Sir Eric Hazarias
★ 5.5House of Dracula
Film · 1945
Police Inspector Holtz
★ 4.8Crime, Inc.
Film · 1945
Pat Coyle
★ 5.5Fog Island
Film · 1945
Alec Ritchfield
★ 6.1House of Frankenstein
Film · 1944
Inspector Arnz
★ 6.3Secrets of Scotland Yard
Film · 1944
Waterlow
★ 7.0Raiders of Ghost City
Film · 1944
Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
★ 5.7Lady in the Death House
Film · 1944
Charles Finch
★ 5.3Captain America
Film · 1944
Cyrus Maldor
★ 6.2Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Film · 1943
Mayor of Vasaria
★ 6.4Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Film · 1942
Professor Moriarty
★ 6.2Night Monster
Film · 1942
Dr. King
★ 6.3Cairo
Film · 1942
Teutonic Gentleman
★ 6.5Pardon My Sarong
Film · 1942
Varnoff
★ 6.3Junior G-Men of the Air
Film · 1942
The Baron
★ 5.2The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Film · 1942
Dr. Fish
★ 5.8The Ghost of Frankenstein
Film · 1942
Dr. Bohmer
★ 7.8To Be or Not to Be
Film · 1942
Rawitch
★ 5.5The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Film · 1942
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
★ 6.1Man-Made Monster
Film · 1941
Dr. Paul Rigas
★ 7.0Boom Town
Film · 1940
Harry Compton
★ 6.8The Great Profile
Film · 1940
Dr. Bruce
★ 5.6Girl in 313
Film · 1940
Russell aka Henry Woodruff
★ 6.8Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Film · 1940
Dr. Suderman
★ 6.8Johnny Apollo
Film · 1940
Jim McLaughlin
★ 6.8Charlie Chan in Panama
Film · 1940
Cliveden Compton
★ 5.8The Mad Empress
Film · 1939
General Bazaine
★ 5.3Balalaika
Film · 1939
Professor Marakov
★ 6.1The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Film · 1939
Paul Messenger
★ 6.6Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Film · 1939
Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
★ 5.5The Sun Never Sets
Film · 1939
Hugo Zurof
★ 4.8The Gorilla
Film · 1939
Walter Stevens
★ 7.1The Hound of the Baskervilles
Film · 1939
Dr. James Mortimer
★ 6.0The Three Musketeers
Film · 1939
De Rochefort
★ 6.7Son of Frankenstein
Film · 1939
Inspector Krogh
★ 5.9The Great Waltz
Film · 1938
Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
★ 7.3Three Comrades
Film · 1938
Breuer
★ 6.3The Great Garrick
Film · 1937
M. Beaumarchais
★ 4.8The Wrong Road
Film · 1937
Mike Roberts
★ 6.0Lancer Spy
Film · 1937
Col. Fenwick
★ 6.0The High Command
Film · 1937
Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
★ 4.8The Last Train from Madrid
Film · 1937
Col. Vigo
★ 6.7The Road Back
Film · 1937
Prosecutor
★ 5.6Absolute Quiet
Film · 1936
Gerald A. Axton
★ 5.2Till We Meet Again
Film · 1936
Ludwig
★ 6.7Lady of Secrets
Film · 1936
Mr. Stephen Whittaker
★ 7.2Captain Blood
Film · 1935
Colonel Bishop
★ 4.9Rendezvous
Film · 1935
Maj. William Brennan
★ 7.1The Murder Man
Film · 1935
Captain Cole
★ 6.3The Devil Is a Woman
Film · 1935
Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
★ 6.2Mark of the Vampire
Film · 1935
Inspector Neumann
★ 6.0The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Film · 1934
Henry Dumont
★ 6.4The Firebird
Film · 1934
John Pointer
★ 5.2The Age of Innocence
Film · 1934
Julius Beaufort
★ 5.2One More River
Film · 1934
Brough
★ 5.2Stamboul Quest
Film · 1934
Herr Von Sturm
★ 7.3Beggars in Ermine
Film · 1934
John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
★ 6.0Nana
Film · 1934
Colonel André Muffat
★ 7.0The Solitaire Man
Film · 1933
Inspector Wallace
★ 5.6Secret of the Blue Room
Film · 1933
Robert von Helldorf
★ 6.0The Song of Songs
Film · 1933
Baron von Merzbach
★ 5.1The Sphinx
Film · 1933
Jerome Breen
★ 5.9Murders in the Zoo
Film · 1933
Eric Gorman
★ 6.5Mystery of the Wax Museum
Film · 1933
Ivan Igor
★ 4.2The Secret of Madame Blanche
Film · 1933
Aubrey St. John
★ 5.5The Vampire Bat
Film · 1933
Dr. Otto von Niemann
★ 6.0Doctor X
Film · 1932
Dr. Jerry Xavier
★ 7.0The Silent Witness
Film · 1932
Sir Austin Howard
★ 10.0The Highest Bidder
Film · 1921
Lester
★ 7.0The Marriage Price
Film · 1919
Kenneth Gordon
Eve's Daughter
Film · 1918
Courtenay Urquhart