Cast
Lionel Atwill
Acting
Cast
Lionel Atwill
Known for
Acting
Born
1885-02-27
From
Croydon, London, England, UK
Died
1946-04-22
Also known as Лайонел Этвилл, Lionel Alfred William Atwill, Лайонел Альфред Уильям Этуилл
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
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
Captain America
as Cyrus Maldor
Night Monster
as Dr. King
To Be or Not to Be
as Rawitch
Doctor X
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Mayor of Vasaria
Johnny Apollo
as Jim McLaughlin
Crime, Inc.
as Pat Coyle
Captain Blood
as Colonel Bishop
Lancer Spy
as Col. Fenwick
House of Dracula
as Police Inspector Holtz
The Firebird
as John Pointer
Absolute Quiet
as Gerald A. Axton
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Professor Moriarty
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Dr. James Mortimer
Son of Frankenstein
as Inspector Krogh
Rendezvous
as Maj. William Brennan
The Sphinx
as Jerome Breen
House of Frankenstein
as Inspector Arnz
Boom Town
as Harry Compton
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
Mark of the Vampire
as Inspector Neumann
Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Ivan Igor
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Dr. Bohmer
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Paul Messenger
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
Cairo
as Teutonic Gentleman
Fog Island
as Alec Ritchfield
The Song of Songs
as Baron von Merzbach
Murders in the Zoo
as Eric Gorman
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as Henry Dumont
The Murder Man
as Captain Cole
Girl in 313
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
The Great Waltz
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
The Last Train from Madrid
as Col. Vigo
Man-Made Monster
as Dr. Paul Rigas
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
as Dr. Fish
Lost City of the Jungle
as Sir Eric Hazarias
Stamboul Quest
as Herr Von Sturm
The Three Musketeers
as De Rochefort
Balalaika
as Professor Marakov
The Devil Is a Woman
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Dr. Suderman
The Age of Innocence
as Julius Beaufort
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Aubrey St. John
Three Comrades
as Breuer
The Wrong Road
as Mike Roberts
The Road Back
as Prosecutor
Lady of Secrets
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Charlie Chan in Panama
as Cliveden Compton
The Vampire Bat
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
Pardon My Sarong
as Varnoff
Secret of the Blue Room
as Robert von Helldorf
The Sun Never Sets
as Hugo Zurof
The Gorilla
as Walter Stevens
The Solitaire Man
as Inspector Wallace
Lady in the Death House
as Charles Finch
The Great Profile
as Dr. Bruce
One More River
as Brough
Dead End Kids Go To War
as The Baron
Genius at Work
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
The Great Garrick
as M. Beaumarchais
The Horror of It All
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
The High Command
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
Nana
as Colonel André Muffat
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
Beggars in Ermine
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
The Silent Witness
as Sir Austin Howard
The Marriage Price
as Kenneth Gordon
Raiders of Ghost City
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Till We Meet Again
as Ludwig
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Junior G-Men of the Air
as The Baron
The Mad Empress
as General Bazaine
Doom of Dracula
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
The Highest Bidder
as Lester
Eve's Daughter
as Courtenay Urquhart
Secrets of Scotland Yard
as Waterlow
The Wolfman's Cure
as Inspector Holtz
The Knife
as The Surgeon