Acting
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
Filmography
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Film · 2007
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Film · 1996
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Film · 1991
The Horror of It All
Film · 1983
The Horror Show
Film · 1979
Genius at Work
Film · 1946
Lost City of the Jungle
Film · 1946
House of Dracula
Film · 1945
Fog Island
Film · 1945
Crime, Inc.
Film · 1945
House of Frankenstein
Film · 1944
Lady in the Death House
Film · 1944
Raiders of Ghost City
Film · 1944
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Film · 1944
Captain America
Film · 1944
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Film · 1943
To Be or Not to Be
Film · 1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Film · 1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Film · 1942
Cairo
Film · 1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Film · 1942
Dead End Kids Go To War
Film · 1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Film · 1942
Night Monster
Film · 1942
Pardon My Sarong
Film · 1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
Film · 1942
Man-Made Monster
Film · 1941
Charlie Chan in Panama
Film · 1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Film · 1940
Girl in 313
Film · 1940
Johnny Apollo
Film · 1940
Boom Town
Film · 1940
The Great Profile
Film · 1940
Son of Frankenstein
Film · 1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Film · 1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Film · 1939
The Gorilla
Film · 1939
The Three Musketeers
Film · 1939
Balalaika
Film · 1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Film · 1939
The Sun Never Sets
Film · 1939
The Mad Empress
Film · 1939
The Great Waltz
Film · 1938
Three Comrades
Film · 1938
Lancer Spy
Film · 1937
The Great Garrick
Film · 1937
The High Command
Film · 1937
The Wrong Road
Film · 1937
The Last Train from Madrid
Film · 1937
The Road Back
Film · 1937
Absolute Quiet
Film · 1936
Till We Meet Again
Film · 1936
Lady of Secrets
Film · 1936
The Murder Man
Film · 1935
Mark of the Vampire
Film · 1935
The Devil Is a Woman
Film · 1935
Captain Blood
Film · 1935
Rendezvous
Film · 1935
Stamboul Quest
Film · 1934
One More River
Film · 1934
The Age of Innocence
Film · 1934
Nana
Film · 1934
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Film · 1934
Beggars in Ermine
Film · 1934
The Firebird
Film · 1934
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Film · 1933
The Vampire Bat
Film · 1933
Murders in the Zoo
Film · 1933
The Sphinx
Film · 1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Film · 1933
The Song of Songs
Film · 1933
The Solitaire Man
Film · 1933
Secret of the Blue Room
Film · 1933
Doctor X
Film · 1932
The Silent Witness
Film · 1932
The Knife
Film · 1929
The Highest Bidder
Film · 1921
The Marriage Price
Film · 1919
Eve's Daughter
Film · 1918