Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill

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
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1885-02-27
Place of Birth: Croydon, London, England, UK
Also Known As: Лайонел Этвилл, Lionel Alfred William Atwill

Movies List of Lionel Atwill

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To Be or Not to Be

1942 Movie
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Son of Frankenstein

1939 Movie
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House of Frankenstein

1944 Movie
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Doctor X

1932 Movie
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House of Dracula

1945 Movie
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The Horror Show

1979 Movie
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The Murder Man

1935 Movie
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Eve's Daughter

1918 Movie
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Fog Island

1945 Movie
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Mark of the Vampire

1935 Movie
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Crime, Inc.

1945 Movie
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The Devil Is a Woman

1935 Movie
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The Vampire Bat

1933 Movie
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Cairo

1942 Movie
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Stamboul Quest

1934 Movie
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The Great Waltz

1938 Movie
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Captain Blood

1935 Movie
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Girl in 313

1940 Movie
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Murders in the Zoo

1933 Movie
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Johnny Apollo

1940 Movie
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The Sphinx

1933 Movie
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Rendezvous

1935 Movie
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Boom Town

1940 Movie
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Man-Made Monster

1941 Movie
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The Song of Songs

1933 Movie
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One More River

1934 Movie
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The Gorilla

1939 Movie
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Night Monster

1942 Movie
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The Solitaire Man

1933 Movie
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Lancer Spy

1937 Movie
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Raiders of Ghost City

1944 Movie
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The Age of Innocence

1934 Movie
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The Three Musketeers

1939 Movie
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Balalaika

1939 Movie
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Nana

1934 Movie
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The Great Garrick

1937 Movie
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Genius at Work

1946 Movie
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Beggars in Ermine

1934 Movie
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The High Command

1937 Movie
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Absolute Quiet

1936 Movie
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The Marriage Price

1919 Movie
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The Sun Never Sets

1939 Movie
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The Wrong Road

1937 Movie
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Till We Meet Again

1936 Movie
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The Firebird

1934 Movie
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The Horror of It All

1983 Movie
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The Great Profile

1940 Movie
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The Silent Witness

1932 Movie
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Pardon My Sarong

1942 Movie
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The Highest Bidder

1921 Movie
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Three Comrades

1938 Movie
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Lady of Secrets

1936 Movie
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Doom of Dracula

1966 Movie
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The Mad Empress

1939 Movie
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Captain America

1944 Movie
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The Road Back

1937 Movie