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Lionel Atwill [2495]
Age: 61 years
Birthday: 1885-02-27
Deathday: 1946-04-22
Birthplace: Croydon, London, England, UK
Credits: 78
Popularity: 0.4479
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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

Terror in the Phar…
2007-03-10
In the Footsteps o…
1996-07-01
The Horror of It All
1983-02-23
The Horror Show
1979-02-06
Doom of Dracula
1966-01-01
Genius at Work
1946-10-20
Lost City of the J…
1946-04-23
House of Dracula
1945-12-07
Crime, Inc.
1945-04-15
Fog Island
1945-02-15
House of Frankenstein
1944-12-01
Secrets of Scotlan…
1944-07-26
Raiders of Ghost City
1944-07-25
Lady in the Death …
1944-03-15
Captain America
1944-02-05
Frankenstein Meets…
1943-03-05
Sherlock Holmes an…
1942-12-25
Night Monster
1942-10-20
Cairo
1942-08-17
Pardon My Sarong
1942-08-07
Junior G-Men of th…
1942-06-30
The Strange Case o…
1942-03-27
The Ghost of Frank…
1942-03-13
The Mad Doctor of …
1942-02-27
To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
Man-Made Monster
1941-03-28
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
Boom Town
1940-08-30
Girl in 313
1940-05-31
Charlie Chan's Mur…
1940-05-02
Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Charlie Chan in Pa…
1940-03-01
The Mad Empress
1939-12-16
Balalaika
1939-12-15
The Secret of Dr. …
1939-11-24
Mr. Moto Takes a V…
1939-07-07
The Sun Never Sets
1939-05-31
The Gorilla
1939-05-26
The Hound of the B…
1939-03-24
The Three Musketeers
1939-02-17
Son of Frankenstein
1939-01-13
The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
Three Comrades
1938-06-02
The Great Garrick
1937-10-30
The Wrong Road
1937-10-11
Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
The High Command
1937-08-23
The Last Train fro…
1937-06-11
The Road Back
1937-06-01
Absolute Quiet
1936-04-24
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
Lady of Secrets
1936-02-21
Captain Blood
1935-12-26
Rendezvous
1935-10-25
The Murder Man
1935-07-12
The Devil Is a Woman
1935-05-03
Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
The Man Who Reclai…
1934-12-24
The Firebird
1934-11-03
The Age of Innocence
1934-09-14
One More River
1934-08-06
Stamboul Quest
1934-07-13
Beggars in Ermine
1934-02-21
Nana
1934-02-01
The Solitaire Man
1933-09-22
Secret of the Blue…
1933-07-20
The Song of Songs
1933-07-19
The Sphinx
1933-06-01
Murders in the Zoo
1933-03-31
Mystery of the Wax…
1933-02-18
The Secret of Mada…
1933-02-03
The Vampire Bat
1933-01-21
Doctor X
1932-08-03
The Silent Witness
1932-02-07
The Highest Bidder
1921-01-01
The Marriage Price
1919-03-09
Eve's Daughter
1918-03-04
The Wolfman's Cure