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

Born: Croydon, London, England, UK, 1885-02-27

Died: 1946-04-22

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1918	Eve's Daughter	Courtenay Urquhart	0
2	1919	The Marriage Price	Kenneth Gordon	0
3	1921	The Highest Bidder	Lester	0
4	1929	The Knife	The Surgeon	0
5	1932	The Silent Witness	Sir Austin Howard	55
6	1932	Doctor X	Dr. Jerry Xavier	60
7	1933	The Vampire Bat	Dr. Otto von Niemann	54
8	1933	The Secret of Madame Blanche	Aubrey St. John	40
9	1933	Mystery of the Wax Museum	Ivan Eigor	65
10	1933	Murders in the Zoo	Eric Gorman	59
11	1933	The Sphinx	Jerome Breen	45
12	1933	The Song of Songs	Baron von Merzbach	61
13	1933	Secret of the Blue Room	Robert von Helldorf	56
14	1933	The Solitaire Man	Inspector Wallace	65
15	1934	Nana	Colonel André Muffat	50
16	1934	Beggars in Ermine	John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels	63
17	1934	Stamboul Quest	Herr Von Sturm	54
18	1934	One More River	Brough	53
19	1934	The Age of Innocence	Julius Beaufort	54
20	1934	The Firebird	John Pointer	55
21	1934	The Man Who Reclaimed His Head	Henry Dumont	60
22	1935	Mark of the Vampire	Inspector Neumann	61
23	1935	The Devil Is a Woman	Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar	63
24	1935	The Murder Man	Captain Cole	69
25	1935	Rendezvous	Maj. William Brennan	48
26	1935	Captain Blood	Colonel Bishop	72
27	1936	Lady of Secrets	Mr. Stephen Whittaker	60
28	1936	Till We Meet Again	Ludwig	50
29	1936	Absolute Quiet	Gerald A. Axton	55
30	1937	The Road Back	Prosecutor	63
31	1937	The Last Train from Madrid	Col. Vigo	47
32	1937	The High Command	Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye	56
33	1937	Lancer Spy	Col. Fenwick	52
34	1937	The Wrong Road	Mike Roberts	44
35	1937	The Great Garrick	M. Beaumarchais	59
36	1938	Three Comrades	Breuer	71
37	1938	The Great Waltz	Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried	57
38	1939	Son of Frankenstein	Inspector Krogh	67
39	1939	The Three Musketeers	De Rochefort	58
40	1939	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Dr. James Mortimer	71
41	1939	The Gorilla	Walter Stevens	46
42	1939	The Sun Never Sets	Hugo Zurof	48
43	1939	Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation	Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand	66
44	1939	The Secret of Dr. Kildare	Paul Messenger	56
45	1939	Balalaika	Professor Marakov	44
46	1939	The Mad Empress	General Bazaine	56
47	1940	Charlie Chan in Panama	Cliveden Compton	68
48	1940	Johnny Apollo	Jim McLaughlin	68
49	1940	Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise	Dr. Suderman	67
50	1940	Girl in 313	Russell aka Henry Woodruff	56
51	1940	Boom Town	Harry Compton	69
52	1940	The Great Profile	Dr. Bruce	63
53	1941	Man-Made Monster	Dr. Paul Rigas	61
54	1942	The Mad Doctor of Market Street	Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham	52
55	1942	To Be or Not to Be	Rawitch	78
56	1942	The Ghost of Frankenstein	Dr. Bohmer	58
57	1942	The Strange Case of Doctor Rx	Dr. Fish	51
58	1942	Junior G-Men of the Air	The Baron	60
59	1942	Pardon My Sarong	Varnoff	65
60	1942	Cairo	Teutonic Gentleman	58
61	1942	Dead End Kids Go To War	The Baron	0
62	1942	Night Monster	Dr. King	62
63	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	Professor Moriarty	63
64	1943	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man	Mayor of Vasaria	62
65	1944	Captain America	Cyrus Maldor	55
66	1944	Lady in the Death House	Charles Finch	54
67	1944	Raiders of Ghost City	Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel	60
68	1944	Secrets of Scotland Yard	Waterlow	53
69	1944	House of Frankenstein	Inspector Arnz	60
70	1945	Fog Island	Alec Ritchfield	52
71	1945	Crime, Inc.	Pat Coyle	42
72	1945	House of Dracula	Police Inspector Holtz	55
73	1946	Lost City of the Jungle	Sir Eric Hazarias	59
74	1946	Genius at Work	Latimer Marsh / The Cobra	60
75	1966	Doom of Dracula	Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)	0
76	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	38
77	1983	The Horror of It All	Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)	80
78	1991	Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)	57
79	1996	In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes		0
80	1998	The Wolfman's Cure	Inspector Holtz	0
81	2007	Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb	Dr. Xavier (archive footage)	0

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Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1918