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The Horror of It All
1983
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
Lionel Atwill
Acting
Born:February 27, 1885
Died:April 22, 1946(aged 61)
Birthplace: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
Filmography (81 movies)
7.8
7.8
To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Rawitch
7.2
7.2
Captain Blood
1935
as Colonel Bishop
7.2
7.2
Three Comrades
1938
as Breuer
7.1
7.1
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
as Dr. James Mortimer
6.9
6.9
The Murder Man
1935
as Captain Cole
6.8
6.8
Boom Town
1940
as Harry Compton
6.8
6.8
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Jim McLaughlin
6.8
6.8
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940
as Cliveden Compton
6.7
6.7
Son of Frankenstein
1939
as Inspector Krogh
6.7
6.7
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
as Dr. Suderman
6.6
6.6
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
6.5
6.5
Pardon My Sarong
1942
as Varnoff
6.5
6.5
The Solitaire Man
1933
as Inspector Wallace
6.4
6.4
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
as Ivan Igor
6.3
6.3
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
as Professor Moriarty
6.3
6.3
The Great Profile
1940
as Dr. Bruce
6.3
6.3
Beggars in Ermine
1934
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
6.2
6.2
The Devil Is a Woman
1935
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
6.2
6.2
Night Monster
1942
as Dr. King
6.2
6.2
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
as Mayor of Vasaria
6.1
6.1
Man-Made Monster
1941
as Dr. Paul Rigas
6.1
6.1
Mark of the Vampire
1935
as Inspector Neumann
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6.0
Doctor X
1932
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
6.0
6.0
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
6.0
6.0
House of Frankenstein
1944
as Inspector Arnz
6.0
6.0
Junior G-Men of the Air
1942
as The Baron
6.0
6.0
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
6.0
6.0
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
1934
as Henry Dumont
6.0
6.0
Genius at Work
1946
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
5.9
5.9
Lost City of the Jungle
1946
as Sir Eric Hazarias
5.9
5.9
The Great Garrick
1937
as M. Beaumarchais
5.9
5.9
The Song of Songs
1933
as Baron von Merzbach
5.8
5.8
Cairo
1942
as Teutonic Gentleman
5.8
5.8
The Three Musketeers
1939
as De Rochefort
5.8
5.8
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Dr. Bohmer
5.8
5.8
Murders in the Zoo
1933
as Eric Gorman
5.7
5.7
The Road Back
1937
as Prosecutor
5.7
5.7
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
5.6
5.6
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
as Paul Messenger
5.6
5.6
The High Command
1937
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
5.6
5.6
The Mad Empress
1939
as General Bazaine
5.5
5.5
House of Dracula
1945
as Police Inspector Holtz
5.5
5.5
The Firebird
1934
as John Pointer
5.5
5.5
Absolute Quiet
1936
as Gerald A. Axton
5.5
5.5
Secret of the Blue Room
1933
as Robert von Helldorf
5.5
5.5
The Silent Witness
1932
as Sir Austin Howard
5.4
5.4
Girl in 313
1940
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
5.4
5.4
The Great Waltz
1938
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
5.4
5.4
The Vampire Bat
1933
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
5.4
5.4
Fog Island
1945
as Alec Ritchfield
5.4
5.4
Lady in the Death House
1944
as Charles Finch
5.4
5.4
Captain America
1944
as Cyrus Maldor
5.3
5.3
Lancer Spy
1937
as Col. Fenwick
5.3
5.3
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944
as Waterlow
5.2
5.2
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
5.2
5.2
Nana
1934
as Colonel André Muffat
5.1
5.1
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942
as Dr. Fish
5.0
5.0
Stamboul Quest
1934
as Herr Von Sturm
4.9
4.9
The Age of Innocence
1934
as Julius Beaufort
4.8
4.8
The Sun Never Sets
1939
as Hugo Zurof
4.7
4.7
One More River
1934
as Brough
4.6
4.6
The Gorilla
1939
as Walter Stevens
4.5
4.5
The Sphinx
1933
as Jerome Breen
4.5
4.5
Till We Meet Again
1936
as Ludwig
4.4
4.4
The Wrong Road
1937
as Mike Roberts
4.4
4.4
Balalaika
1939
as Professor Marakov
4.3
4.3
Rendezvous
1935
as Maj. William Brennan
4.3
4.3
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
as Col. Vigo
4.2
4.2
Crime, Inc.
1945
as Pat Coyle
3.8
3.8
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
3.4
3.4
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933
as Aubrey St. John
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
Eve's Daughter
1918
as Courtenay Urquhart
Dead End Kids Go To War
1942
as The Baron
The Marriage Price
1919
as Kenneth Gordon
The Wolfman's Cure
1998
as Inspector Holtz
Doom of Dracula
1966
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
The Highest Bidder
1921
as Lester
The Knife
1929
as The Surgeon
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
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