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
★7.8
MOVIE1942
To Be or Not to Be
as Rawitch
★5.5
MOVIE1945
House of Dracula
as Police Inspector Holtz
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Son of Frankenstein
as Inspector Krogh
★7.2
MOVIE1935
Captain Blood
as Colonel Bishop
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Mayor of Vasaria
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Ivan Igor
★5.8
MOVIE1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Dr. Bohmer
★6.1
MOVIE1944
House of Frankenstein
as Inspector Arnz
★6.0
MOVIE1932
Doctor X
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
★10.0
MOVIE1966
Doom of Dracula
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1941
Man-Made Monster
as Dr. Paul Rigas
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Professor Moriarty
★6.0
MOVIE1933
The Song of Songs
as Baron von Merzbach
★7.1
MOVIE1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Dr. James Mortimer
★5.4
MOVIE1944
Captain America
as Cyrus Maldor
★5.9
MOVIE1938
The Great Waltz
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Three Musketeers
as De Rochefort
★6.7
MOVIE1937
The Road Back
as Prosecutor
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Mark of the Vampire
as Inspector Neumann
★7.0
MOVIE1919
The Marriage Price
as Kenneth Gordon
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Johnny Apollo
as Jim McLaughlin
★5.2
MOVIE1934
The Age of Innocence
as Julius Beaufort
★5.6
MOVIE1933
Secret of the Blue Room
as Robert von Helldorf
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Boom Town
as Harry Compton
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Three Comrades
as Breuer
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Charlie Chan in Panama
as Cliveden Compton
★5.5
MOVIE1933
The Vampire Bat
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
★6.1
MOVIE1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Paul Messenger
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Night Monster
as Dr. King
★4.8
MOVIE1945
Crime, Inc.
as Pat Coyle
★4.8
MOVIE1939
The Gorilla
as Walter Stevens
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Balalaika
as Professor Marakov
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Great Garrick
as M. Beaumarchais
★4.8
MOVIE1937
The Last Train from Madrid
as Col. Vigo
★6.3
MOVIE1935
The Devil Is a Woman
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
★6.8
MOVIE1940
The Great Profile
as Dr. Bruce
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
★6.0
MOVIE1934
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as Henry Dumont
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Lady in the Death House
as Charles Finch
★5.6
MOVIE1940
Girl in 313
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE1946
Lost City of the Jungle
as Sir Eric Hazarias
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Dr. Suderman
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Raiders of Ghost City
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
★5.2
MOVIE1934
One More River
as Brough
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
as The Baron
★4.2
MOVIE1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Aubrey St. John
★7.0
MOVIE1933
The Solitaire Man
as Inspector Wallace
★5.2
MOVIE1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
as Dr. Fish
★8.3
MOVIE1983
The Horror of It All
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE1934
Beggars in Ermine
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
★4.9
MOVIE1935
Rendezvous
as Maj. William Brennan
★7.1
MOVIE1935
The Murder Man
as Captain Cole
★5.5
MOVIE1945
Fog Island
as Alec Ritchfield
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Cairo
as Teutonic Gentleman
★5.8
MOVIE1933
Murders in the Zoo
as Eric Gorman
MOVIE1998
The Wolfman's Cure
as Inspector Holtz
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Lancer Spy
as Col. Fenwick
MOVIE1942
Dead End Kids Go To War
as The Baron
★3.4
MOVIE1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE1937
The Wrong Road
as Mike Roberts
★5.1
MOVIE1933
The Sphinx
as Jerome Breen
★5.5
MOVIE1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
★5.6
MOVIE1936
Absolute Quiet
as Gerald A. Axton
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Secrets of Scotland Yard
as Waterlow
★5.5
MOVIE1939
The Sun Never Sets
as Hugo Zurof
★5.2
MOVIE1934
Stamboul Quest
as Herr Von Sturm
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Lady of Secrets
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
★6.4
MOVIE1934
The Firebird
as John Pointer
★6.0
MOVIE1937
The High Command
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Silent Witness
as Sir Austin Howard
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Pardon My Sarong
as Varnoff
MOVIE1996
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Genius at Work
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
★5.2
MOVIE1936
Till We Meet Again
as Ludwig
★10.0
MOVIE1921
The Highest Bidder
as Lester
★6.0
MOVIE1934
Nana
as Colonel André Muffat
MOVIE1918
Eve's Daughter
as Courtenay Urquhart
★5.8
MOVIE1939
The Mad Empress
as General Bazaine
MOVIE2007
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1929
The Knife
as The Surgeon