Lewis Stone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball, Lewis Stone's hair turned gray prematurely (reportedly by age 20). Lewis served in the United States Army in the Spanish–American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for The Patriot. After that, he appeared in seven films with Greta Garbo, spanning both the silent and early sound periods. He played the role of Dr. Otternschlag in the Garbo film Grand Hotel, in which he utters the famous closing line: "Grand Hotel. People coming. Going. Nothing ever happens." He played a larger role in the 1933 Garbo film Queen Christina. His appearance in the successful prison film The Big House furthered his career. He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). In 1937, Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney Andy Hardy series. Stone appeared as the judge in fifteen movies, beginning with You're Only Young Once (1937). Stone died in Hancock Park, Los Angeles on September 12, 1953, aged 73. Lewis Stone was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Blvd.

Known For: Acting

Born: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, 1879-11-14

Died: 1953-09-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1916	Honor's Altar	Warren Woods	0
2	1916	The Havoc	Richard Craig	0
3	1916	According to the Code	Basil Beckenridge	0
4	1918	Inside the Lines	Captain Cavendish	0
5	1918	The Man of Bronze	John Adams	0
6	1919	Man's Desire	Tom Denton	0
7	1920	The River's End	Derwent Conniston/John Keith	0
8	1920	A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios	Himself	60
9	1920	Milestones	John Rhead	0
10	1920	Nomads of the North	Cpl. O'Connor	55
11	1920	Held by the Enemy	Capt. Gordon Haine	0
12	1921	The Concert	Augustus Martinot	0
13	1921	Beau Revel	Lawrence 'Beau' Revel	40
14	1921	The Northern Trail	Jan Ducet	0
15	1921	The Golden Snare	Sergeant Philip Raine	0
16	1921	Don't Neglect Your Wife	Langdon Masters	0
17	1921	The Child Thou Gavest Me	Edward Berkeley	0
18	1921	Pilgrims of the Night	Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham	0
19	1921	The White Mouse	Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.	0
20	1922	The Rosary	Father Brian Kelly	0
21	1922	A Fool There Was	John Schuyler	0
22	1922	The Prisoner of Zenda	Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf	62
23	1922	Trifling Women	The Marquis Ferroni	10
24	1923	The World's Applause	John Elliott	0
25	1923	The Dangerous Age	John Emerson	0
26	1923	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Garth McBride	0
27	1923	Scaramouche	The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr	72
28	1924	The Stranger	Keith Darrant	0
29	1924	Why Men Leave Home	John Emerson	10
30	1924	Cytherea	Lee Randon	0
31	1924	Husbands and Lovers	James Livingston	0
32	1924	Inez from Hollywood	Stewart Cuyler	0
33	1925	The Lost World	Sir John Roxton	67
34	1925	Cheaper to Marry	Jim Knight	0
35	1925	Confessions of a Queen	The King	70
36	1925	The Talker	Harry Lennox	10
37	1925	The Lady Who Lied	Horace Pierpont	0
38	1925	Fine Clothes	Earl of Denham	0
39	1925	What Fools Men	Joseph Greer	10
40	1926	Too Much Money	Robert Broadley	0
41	1926	The Girl from Montmartre	Jerome Hautrive	0
42	1926	Old Loves and New	Gervas Carew	30
43	1926	Don Juan's 3 Nights	Johann Aradi	10
44	1926	Midnight Lovers	Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC	60
45	1926	The Blonde Saint	Sebastian Maure	0
46	1927	An Affair of the Follies	Hammersley	0
47	1927	The Notorious Lady	Patrick Marlowe / John Carew	70
48	1927	Lonesome Ladies	John Fosdick	0
49	1927	The Prince of Headwaiters	Pierre	0
50	1927	The Private Life of Helen of Troy	Menelaus	43
51	1928	The Foreign Legion	Col. Destin	0
52	1928	The Patriot	Count Pahlen	50
53	1928	Freedom of the Press	Daniel Steele	0
54	1928	A Woman of Affairs	Dr. Hugh Trevelyan	67
55	1929	Wild Orchids	John Sterling	66
56	1929	The Trial of Mary Dugan	Edward West	60
57	1929	Wonder of Women	Stephen Trombolt	37
58	1929	Madame X	Louis Floriot	61
59	1929	Their Own Desire	Henry 'Hal' Marlett	49
60	1930	Strictly Unconventional	Clive Champion-Cheney	35
61	1930	The Big House	Warden James Adams	67
62	1930	Romance	Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl	62
63	1930	The Office Wife	Larry Fellowes	50
64	1930	Passion Flower	Antonio Morado	56
65	1931	Inspiration	Raymond Delval	61
66	1931	Father's Son	William Emory	0
67	1931	The Secret Six	Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law	58
68	1931	My Past	John Thornley	38
69	1931	Always Goodbye	John Graham	0
70	1931	The Bargain	Maitland White	0
71	1931	The Phantom of Paris	Inspector Costaud	59
72	1931	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Carlo Boretti	59
73	1931	Strictly Dishonorable	Judge Dempsey	51
74	1931	Mata Hari	Andriani	62
75	1932	The Wet Parade	Roger Chilcote	58
76	1932	Letty Lynton	District Attorney Haney	68
77	1932	Grand Hotel	Doctor Otternschlag	69
78	1932	Night Court	Judge William Osgood	64
79	1932	New Morals for Old	Mr. Thomas	42
80	1932	Red-Headed Woman	William 'Will' Legendre Sr.	67
81	1932	Unashamed	Henry Trask	63
82	1932	Divorce In The Family	John Parker	60
83	1932	The Mask of Fu Manchu	Nyland Smith	55
84	1932	The Son-Daughter	Dr. Dong Tong	70
85	1933	Men Must Fight	Edward Seward	57
86	1933	The White Sister	Prince Guido Chiaromonte	54
87	1933	Looking Forward	Gabriel Service Sr.	62
88	1933	Bureau of Missing Persons	Police Captain Webb	58
89	1933	Queen Christina	Oxenstierna	68
90	1934	You Can't Buy Everything	John Burton	70
91	1934	The Mystery of Mr. X	Connor	69
92	1934	Hollywood on Parade No. B-1		60
93	1934	The Girl from Missouri	Frank Cousins	69
94	1934	Treasure Island	Captain Smollett	65
95	1935	David Copperfield	Mr. Wickfield	67
96	1935	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Adam Paris	60
97	1935	West Point of the Air	Gen. Carter	60
98	1935	Public Hero Number 1	Prison Warden	62
99	1935	Woman Wanted	District Attorney	63
100	1935	China Seas	Tom Davids	63
101	1935	Shipmates Forever	Adm. Richard Melville	65
102	1936	Three Godfathers	James 'Doc' Underwood	68
103	1936	Small Town Girl	Dr. Dakin	59
104	1936	The Unguarded Hour	General Lawrence	62
105	1936	Suzy	Baron	58
106	1936	Sworn Enemy	Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle	53
107	1936	Don't Turn 'em Loose	John Webster	48
108	1937	Outcast	Anthony Abbott	0
109	1937	The Thirteenth Chair	Inspector Marney	61
110	1937	The Man Who Cried Wolf	Lawrence Fontaine	55
111	1937	You're Only Young Once	Judge Hardy	58
112	1937	The Bad Man of Brimstone	Jackson Douglas	60
113	1938	Another Romance of Celluloid	Self (uncredited)	50
114	1938	Judge Hardy's Children	Judge Hardy	65
115	1938	Stolen Heaven	Joseph Langauer	0
116	1938	Yellow Jack	Maj. Walter Reed	56
117	1938	Love Finds Andy Hardy	Judge Hardy	62
118	1938	The Chaser	Delford Prescott	60
119	1938	Out West with the Hardys	Judge Hardy	64
120	1939	Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)	Judge James K. Hardy	53
121	1939	The Ice Follies of 1939	Douglas Tolliver Jr.	56
122	1939	The Hardys Ride High	Judge Hardy	58
123	1939	From the Ends of the Earth	Self	0
124	1939	Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever	Judge Hardy	57
125	1939	Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President	The President	20
126	1939	Judge Hardy and Son	Judge Hardy	56
127	1940	Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things	Judge Hardy	0
128	1940	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940	Himself / Narrator	0
129	1940	Hollywood: Style Center of the World	Self	55
130	1940	Andy Hardy Meets Debutante	Judge Hardy	54
131	1940	Sporting Blood	Davis Lockwood	43
132	1941	Andy Hardy's Private Secretary	Judge Hardy	54
133	1941	Life Begins for Andy Hardy	Judge Hardy	59
134	1941	Holiday Greetings 1941	Himself	0
135	1942	The Bugle Sounds	Col. Jack Lawton	60
136	1942	The Courtship of Andy Hardy	Judge Hardy	57
137	1942	Andy Hardy's Double Life	Judge Hardy	48
138	1943	Plan for Destruction	Commentator	60
139	1944	Twenty Years After	(archive footage)	60
140	1944	Some of the Best	Himself - Commentator	0
141	1944	Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble	Judge Hardy	58
142	1946	The Hoodlum Saint	Father Nolan	52
143	1946	Three Wise Fools	Judge James Trumbell	50
144	1946	Love Laughs at Andy Hardy	Judge Hardy	55
145	1948	State of the Union	Sam Thorndyke	67
146	1949	The Sun Comes Up	Arthur Norton	64
147	1949	Any Number Can Play	Ben Gavery Snelerr	69
148	1950	Key to the City	Judge Silas Standish	62
149	1950	Stars in My Crown	Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.	69
150	1951	Grounds for Marriage	Dr. Carleton Radwin Young	43
151	1951	Night Into Morning	Dr. Horace Snyder	58
152	1951	Bannerline	Josh	60
153	1951	Angels in the Outfield	Arnold P. Hapgood	67
154	1951	The Unknown Man	Judge James V. Hulbrook	48
155	1951	It's a Big Country	Church Sexton	53
156	1952	Just This Once	Judge Samuel Coulter	38
157	1952	Talk About a Stranger	William J. Wardlaw	61
158	1952	Scaramouche	Georges de Valmorin	71
159	1952	The Prisoner of Zenda	The Cardinal	68
160	1953	All the Brothers Were Valiant	Captain Holt	59
161	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)	63
162	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
163	1998	Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy	Judge Hardy (archive footage)	52
164	2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	67
165	2004	Checking Out: Grand Hotel	Self (archive footage)	70

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