1885-02-27 Croydon, London, England, UK
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
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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb | Dr. Xavier (archive footage) | 2007-03-10 |
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes | 1996-07-01 | |
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
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The Horror of It All | Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage) | 1983-02-23 |
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The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979-02-06 |
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Doom of Dracula | Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage) | 1966-01-01 |
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Genius at Work | Latimer Marsh / The Cobra | 1946-10-20 |
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Lost City of the Jungle | Sir Eric Hazarias | 1946-04-23 |
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Fog Island | Alec Ritchfield | 1945-02-15 |
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Crime, Inc. | Pat Coyle | 1945-04-15 |
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House of Dracula | Police Inspector Holtz | 1945-12-07 |
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Raiders of Ghost City | Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel | 1944-07-25 |
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House of Frankenstein | Inspector Arnz | 1944-12-01 |
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Secrets of Scotland Yard | Waterlow | 1944-07-26 |
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Lady in the Death House | Charles Finch | 1944-03-15 |
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Captain America | Cyrus Maldor | 1944-02-05 |
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Mayor of Vasaria | 1943-03-05 |
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Dead End Kids Go To War | The Baron | 1942-10-02 |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Professor Moriarty | 1942-12-25 |
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx | Dr. Fish | 1942-03-27 |
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Junior G-Men of the Air | The Baron | 1942-06-30 |
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Pardon My Sarong | Varnoff | 1942-08-07 |
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To Be or Not to Be | Rawitch | 1942-03-06 |
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Night Monster | Dr. King | 1942-10-20 |
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The Ghost of Frankenstein | Dr. Bohmer | 1942-03-13 |
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Cairo | Teutonic Gentleman | 1942-08-17 |
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street | Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham | 1942-02-27 |
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Man-Made Monster | Dr. Paul Rigas | 1941-03-28 |
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Girl in 313 | Russell aka Henry Woodruff | 1940-05-31 |
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Boom Town | Harry Compton | 1940-08-30 |
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Charlie Chan in Panama | Cliveden Compton | 1940-03-01 |
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Johnny Apollo | Jim McLaughlin | 1940-04-19 |
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Dr. Suderman | 1940-05-02 |
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The Great Profile | Dr. Bruce | 1940-08-30 |
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Balalaika | Professor Marakov | 1939-12-15 |
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Paul Messenger | 1939-11-24 |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr. James Mortimer | 1939-03-24 |
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The Sun Never Sets | Hugo Zurof | 1939-05-31 |
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The Gorilla | Walter Stevens | 1939-05-26 |
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The Three Musketeers | De Rochefort | 1939-02-17 |
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation | Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand | 1939-07-07 |
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The Mad Empress | General Bazaine | 1939-12-16 |
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Son of Frankenstein | Inspector Krogh | 1939-01-13 |
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The Great Waltz | Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried | 1938-11-04 |
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Three Comrades | Breuer | 1938-06-02 |
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The Road Back | Prosecutor | 1937-06-01 |
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The Great Garrick | M. Beaumarchais | 1937-10-30 |
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The High Command | Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye | 1937-08-23 |
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The Wrong Road | Mike Roberts | 1937-10-11 |
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The Last Train from Madrid | Col. Vigo | 1937-06-11 |
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Lancer Spy | Col. Fenwick | 1937-10-08 |
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Absolute Quiet | Gerald A. Axton | 1936-04-24 |
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Lady of Secrets | Mr. Stephen Whittaker | 1936-02-21 |
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Till We Meet Again | Ludwig | 1936-04-04 |
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Captain Blood | Colonel Bishop | 1935-12-26 |
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Mark of the Vampire | Inspector Neumann | 1935-04-26 |
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Rendezvous | Maj. William Brennan | 1935-10-25 |
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The Devil Is a Woman | Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar | 1935-05-03 |
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The Murder Man | Captain Cole | 1935-07-12 |
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The Age of Innocence | Julius Beaufort | 1934-09-14 |
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One More River | Brough | 1934-08-06 |
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The Firebird | John Pointer | 1934-11-03 |
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Nana | Colonel André Muffat | 1934-02-01 |
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Stamboul Quest | Herr Von Sturm | 1934-07-13 |
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Henry Dumont | 1934-12-24 |
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Beggars in Ermine | John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels | 1934-02-21 |
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Mystery of the Wax Museum | Ivan Eigor | 1933-02-18 |
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The Vampire Bat | Dr. Otto von Niemann | 1933-01-21 |
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The Song of Songs | Baron von Merzbach | 1933-07-19 |
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The Secret of Madame Blanche | Aubrey St. John | 1933-02-03 |
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The Sphinx | Jerome Breen | 1933-06-01 |
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Murders in the Zoo | Eric Gorman | 1933-03-31 |
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Secret of the Blue Room | Robert von Helldorf | 1933-07-20 |
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The Solitaire Man | Inspector Wallace | 1933-09-22 |
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The Silent Witness | Sir Austin Howard | 1932-02-07 |
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Doctor X | Dr. Jerry Xavier | 1932-08-03 |
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The Knife | The Surgeon | 1929-05-05 |
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The Highest Bidder | Lester | 1921-01-01 |
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The Marriage Price | Kenneth Gordon | 1919-03-09 |
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Eve's Daughter | Courtenay Urquhart | 1918-03-04 |
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