Lionel Atwill

Also Known As: Лайонел Этвилл, Lionel Alfred William 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

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Croydon, London, England, UK

Birthday: February 27, 1885

Deathday: April 22, 1946

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

To Be or Not to Be
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Son of Frankenstein
House of Frankenstein
Doctor X
House of Dracula
Mystery of the Wax Museum
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Horror Show
The Murder Man
Eve's Daughter
Fog Island
Mark of the Vampire
Crime, Inc.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
The Devil Is a Woman
The Vampire Bat
Cairo
Stamboul Quest
The Great Waltz
Charlie Chan in Panama
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Captain Blood
Girl in 313
Murders in the Zoo
Johnny Apollo
Lady in the Death House
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
The Sphinx
Rendezvous
Dead End Kids Go To War
Boom Town
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Man-Made Monster
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
The Secret of Madame Blanche
The Song of Songs
One More River
The Gorilla
Night Monster
The Solitaire Man
Lancer Spy
Raiders of Ghost City
The Age of Innocence
The Three Musketeers
Balalaika
Nana
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
The Great Garrick
Secret of the Blue Room
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Genius at Work
Beggars in Ermine
The High Command
Absolute Quiet
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Lost City of the Jungle
The Marriage Price
The Sun Never Sets
The Wrong Road
Till We Meet Again
The Firebird
The Last Train from Madrid
The Horror of It All
The Great Profile
The Silent Witness
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Pardon My Sarong
Junior G-Men of the Air
The Highest Bidder
The Wolfman's Cure
Three Comrades
Lady of Secrets
Doom of Dracula
The Mad Empress
Captain America
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
The Road Back
The Knife