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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

81

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-02-27

Day of Death

1946-04-22 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Croydon, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Лайонел Этвилл

Lionel Alfred William Atwill

Lionel Atwill

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

Known For

Acting

To Be or Not to Be

1942

To Be or Not to Be

as

Rawitch

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

as

Mayor of Vasaria

Son of Frankenstein

1939

Son of Frankenstein

as

Inspector Krogh

House of Frankenstein

1944

House of Frankenstein

as

Inspector Arnz

Doctor X

1932

Doctor X

as

Dr. Jerry Xavier

House of Dracula

1945

House of Dracula

as

Police Inspector Holtz

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as

Dr. James Mortimer

The Horror Show

1979

The Horror Show

as

(archive footage)

The Murder Man

1935

The Murder Man

as

Captain Cole

Eve's Daughter

1918

Eve's Daughter

as

Courtenay Urquhart

Fog Island

1945

Fog Island

as

Alec Ritchfield

Mark of the Vampire

1935

Mark of the Vampire

as

Inspector Neumann

Crime, Inc.

1945

Crime, Inc.

as

Pat Coyle

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

as

Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham

The Devil Is a Woman

1935

The Devil Is a Woman

as

Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar

The Vampire Bat

1933

The Vampire Bat

as

Dr. Otto von Niemann

Cairo

1942

Cairo

as

Teutonic Gentleman

Stamboul Quest

1934

Stamboul Quest

as

Herr Von Sturm

The Great Waltz

1938

The Great Waltz

as

Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried

Charlie Chan in Panama

1940

Charlie Chan in Panama

as

Cliveden Compton

Captain Blood

1935

Captain Blood

as

Colonel Bishop

Girl in 313

1940

Girl in 313

as

Russell aka Henry Woodruff

Murders in the Zoo

1933

Murders in the Zoo

as

Eric Gorman

Johnny Apollo

1940

Johnny Apollo

as

Jim McLaughlin

Lady in the Death House

1944

Lady in the Death House

as

Charles Finch

The Sphinx

1933

The Sphinx

as

Jerome Breen

Rendezvous

1935

Rendezvous

as

Maj. William Brennan

Boom Town

1940

Boom Town

as

Harry Compton

Man-Made Monster

1941

Man-Made Monster

as

Dr. Paul Rigas

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

as

Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand

The Secret of Madame Blanche

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

as

Aubrey St. John

The Song of Songs

1933

The Song of Songs

as

Baron von Merzbach

One More River

1934

One More River

as

Brough

The Gorilla

1939

The Gorilla

as

Walter Stevens

Night Monster

1942

Night Monster

as

Dr. King

The Solitaire Man

1933

The Solitaire Man

as

Inspector Wallace

Lancer Spy

1937

Lancer Spy

as

Col. Fenwick

Raiders of Ghost City

1944

Raiders of Ghost City

as

Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel

The Age of Innocence

1934

The Age of Innocence

as

Julius Beaufort

The Three Musketeers

1939

The Three Musketeers

as

De Rochefort

Balalaika

1939

Balalaika

as

Professor Marakov

Nana

1934

Nana

as

Colonel André Muffat

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as

Paul Messenger

The Great Garrick

1937

The Great Garrick

as

M. Beaumarchais

Secret of the Blue Room

1933

Secret of the Blue Room

as

Robert von Helldorf

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as

Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)

Genius at Work

1946

Genius at Work

as

Latimer Marsh / The Cobra

Beggars in Ermine

1934

Beggars in Ermine

as

John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels

The High Command

1937

The High Command

as

Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye

Absolute Quiet

1936

Absolute Quiet

as

Gerald A. Axton

Lost City of the Jungle

1946

Lost City of the Jungle

as

Sir Eric Hazarias

The Marriage Price

1919

The Marriage Price

as

Kenneth Gordon

The Sun Never Sets

1939

The Sun Never Sets

as

Hugo Zurof

The Wrong Road

1937

The Wrong Road

as

Mike Roberts

Till We Meet Again

1936

Till We Meet Again

as

Ludwig

The Firebird

1934

The Firebird

as

John Pointer

The Horror of It All

1983

The Horror of It All

as

Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)

The Great Profile

1940

The Great Profile

as

Dr. Bruce

The Silent Witness

1932

The Silent Witness

as

Sir Austin Howard

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

2007

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

as

Dr. Xavier (archive footage)

Pardon My Sarong

1942

Pardon My Sarong

as

Varnoff

The Highest Bidder

1921

The Highest Bidder

as

Lester

The Wolfman's Cure

1998

The Wolfman's Cure

as

Inspector Holtz

Three Comrades

1938

Three Comrades

as

Breuer

Lady of Secrets

1936

Lady of Secrets

as

Mr. Stephen Whittaker

Doom of Dracula

1966

Doom of Dracula

as

Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)

The Mad Empress

1939

The Mad Empress

as

General Bazaine

Captain America

1944

Captain America

as

Cyrus Maldor

The Road Back

1937

The Road Back

as

Prosecutor

The Knife

1929

The Knife

as

The Surgeon

Production

Crew

Directing