Lionel Atwill
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 27, 1885
- Died
- April 22, 1946
- Birthplace
- Croydon, London, England, UK
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
Filmography
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb 2007
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes 1996
Actor
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
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)
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
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
The Great Profile 1940
as Dr. Bruce
Boom Town 1940
as Harry Compton
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 Igor
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
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
Credits from TMDB.