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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Character:Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
Release Date:10/03/2007
The Wolfman's Cure
Character:Inspector Holtz
Release Date:08/05/1998
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1996
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character:Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1991
The Horror of It All
Character:Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
Release Date:23/02/1983
The Horror Show
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:06/02/1979
Doom of Dracula
Character:Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1966
Genius at Work
Character:Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Release Date:20/10/1946
Lost City of the Jungle
Character:Sir Eric Hazarias
Release Date:23/04/1946
House of Dracula
Character:Police Inspector Holtz
Release Date:07/12/1945
Crime, Inc.
Character:Pat Coyle
Release Date:15/04/1945
Fog Island
Character:Alec Ritchfield
Release Date:15/02/1945
House of Frankenstein
Character:Inspector Arnz
Release Date:15/12/1944
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Character:Waterlow
Release Date:26/07/1944
Raiders of Ghost City
Character:Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Release Date:25/07/1944
Lady in the Death House
Character:Charles Finch
Release Date:15/03/1944
Captain America
Character:Cyrus Maldor
Release Date:05/02/1944
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Character:Mayor of Vasaria
Release Date:12/03/1943
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character:Professor Moriarty
Release Date:25/12/1942
Night Monster
Character:Dr. King
Release Date:23/10/1942
Dead End Kids Go To War
Character:The Baron
Release Date:02/10/1942
Cairo
Character:Teutonic Gentleman
Release Date:17/08/1942
Pardon My Sarong
Character:Varnoff
Release Date:07/08/1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
Character:The Baron
Release Date:30/06/1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character:Dr. Fish
Release Date:27/03/1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Character:Dr. Bohmer
Release Date:13/03/1942
To Be or Not to Be
Character:Rawitch
Release Date:06/03/1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Character:Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Release Date:04/01/1942
Man-Made Monster
Character:Dr. Paul Rigas
Release Date:28/03/1941
Boom Town
Character:Harry Compton
Release Date:30/08/1940
The Great Profile
Character:Dr. Bruce
Release Date:30/08/1940
Girl in 313
Character:Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Release Date:31/05/1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Character:Dr. Suderman
Release Date:02/05/1940
Johnny Apollo
Character:Jim McLaughlin
Release Date:19/04/1940
Charlie Chan in Panama
Character:Cliveden Compton
Release Date:01/03/1940
The Mad Empress
Character:General Bazaine
Release Date:16/12/1939
Balalaika
Character:Professor Marakov
Release Date:15/12/1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character:Paul Messenger
Release Date:24/11/1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character:Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
Release Date:07/07/1939
The Sun Never Sets
Character:Hugo Zurof
Release Date:31/05/1939
The Gorilla
Character:Walter Stevens
Release Date:26/05/1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character:Dr. James Mortimer
Release Date:24/03/1939
The Three Musketeers
Character:De Rochefort
Release Date:17/02/1939
Son of Frankenstein
Character:Inspector Krogh
Release Date:13/01/1939
The Great Waltz
Character:Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Release Date:04/11/1938
Three Comrades
Character:Breuer
Release Date:02/06/1938
The Great Garrick
Character:M. Beaumarchais
Release Date:30/10/1937
The Wrong Road
Character:Mike Roberts
Release Date:11/10/1937
Lancer Spy
Character:Col. Fenwick
Release Date:08/10/1937
The High Command
Character:Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
Release Date:23/08/1937
The Last Train from Madrid
Character:Col. Vigo
Release Date:25/06/1937
The Road Back
Character:Prosecutor
Release Date:01/06/1937
Absolute Quiet
Character:Gerald A. Axton
Release Date:24/04/1936
Till We Meet Again
Character:Ludwig
Release Date:04/04/1936
Lady of Secrets
Character:Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Release Date:21/02/1936
Captain Blood
Character:Colonel Bishop
Release Date:26/12/1935
Rendezvous
Character:Maj. William Brennan
Release Date:25/10/1935
The Murder Man
Character:Captain Cole
Release Date:12/07/1935
The Devil Is a Woman
Character:Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
Release Date:03/05/1935
Mark of the Vampire
Character:Inspector Neumann
Release Date:26/04/1935
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Character:Henry Dumont
Release Date:24/12/1934
The Firebird
Character:John Pointer
Release Date:03/11/1934
The Age of Innocence
Character:Julius Beaufort
Release Date:14/09/1934
One More River
Character:Brough
Release Date:06/08/1934
Stamboul Quest
Character:Herr Von Sturm
Release Date:13/07/1934
Beggars in Ermine
Character:John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Release Date:21/02/1934
Nana
Character:Colonel André Muffat
Release Date:01/02/1934
The Solitaire Man
Character:Inspector Wallace
Release Date:22/09/1933
Secret of the Blue Room
Character:Robert von Helldorf
Release Date:20/07/1933
The Song of Songs
Character:Baron von Merzbach
Release Date:19/07/1933
The Sphinx
Character:Jerome Breen
Release Date:01/06/1933
Murders in the Zoo
Character:Eric Gorman
Release Date:31/03/1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character:Ivan Igor
Release Date:18/02/1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Character:Aubrey St. John
Release Date:03/02/1933
The Vampire Bat
Character:Dr. Otto von Niemann
Release Date:21/01/1933
Doctor X
Character:Dr. Jerry Xavier
Release Date:03/08/1932
The Silent Witness
Character:Sir Austin Howard
Release Date:07/02/1932
The Knife
Character:The Surgeon
Release Date:05/05/1929
The Highest Bidder
Character:Lester
Release Date:01/01/1921
The Marriage Price
Character:Kenneth Gordon
Release Date:09/03/1919
Eve's Daughter
Character:Courtenay Urquhart
Release Date:04/03/1918
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