Lionel Atwill
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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
Credits
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
as Rawitch
House of Dracula (1945)
as Police Inspector Holtz
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
as Inspector Krogh
Captain Blood (1935)
as Colonel Bishop
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
as Mayor of Vasaria
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
as Ivan Igor
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
as Dr. Bohmer
House of Frankenstein (1944)
as Inspector Arnz
Doctor X (1932)
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
Doom of Dracula (1966)
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
Man-Made Monster (1941)
as Dr. Paul Rigas
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
as Professor Moriarty
The Song of Songs (1933)
as Baron von Merzbach
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
as Dr. James Mortimer
Captain America (1944)
as Cyrus Maldor
The Great Waltz (1938)
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
The Three Musketeers (1939)
as De Rochefort
The Road Back (1937)
as Prosecutor
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
as Inspector Neumann
The Marriage Price (1919)
as Kenneth Gordon
Johnny Apollo (1940)
as Jim McLaughlin
The Age of Innocence (1934)
as Julius Beaufort
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
as Robert von Helldorf
Boom Town (1940)
as Harry Compton
Three Comrades (1938)
as Breuer
Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
as Cliveden Compton
The Vampire Bat (1933)
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Paul Messenger
Night Monster (1942)
as Dr. King
Crime, Inc. (1945)
as Pat Coyle
The Gorilla (1939)
as Walter Stevens
Balalaika (1939)
as Professor Marakov
The Great Garrick (1937)
as M. Beaumarchais
The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
as Col. Vigo
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
The Great Profile (1940)
as Dr. Bruce
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
as Henry Dumont
Lady in the Death House (1944)
as Charles Finch
Girl in 313 (1940)
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
Lost City of the Jungle (1946)
as Sir Eric Hazarias
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
as Dr. Suderman
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
One More River (1934)
as Brough
Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)
as The Baron
The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
as Aubrey St. John
The Solitaire Man (1933)
as Inspector Wallace
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
as Dr. Fish
The Horror of It All (1983)
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Rendezvous (1935)
as Maj. William Brennan
The Murder Man (1935)
as Captain Cole
Fog Island (1945)
as Alec Ritchfield
Cairo (1942)
as Teutonic Gentleman
Murders in the Zoo (1933)
as Eric Gorman
The Wolfman's Cure (1998)
as Inspector Holtz
Lancer Spy (1937)
as Col. Fenwick
Dead End Kids Go To War (1942)
as The Baron
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
The Wrong Road (1937)
as Mike Roberts
The Sphinx (1933)
as Jerome Breen
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Absolute Quiet (1936)
as Gerald A. Axton
Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
as Waterlow
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Hugo Zurof
Stamboul Quest (1934)
as Herr Von Sturm
Lady of Secrets (1936)
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
The Firebird (1934)
as John Pointer
The High Command (1937)
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
The Silent Witness (1932)
as Sir Austin Howard
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
as Varnoff
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (1996)
Actor
Genius at Work (1946)
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Till We Meet Again (1936)
as Ludwig
The Highest Bidder (1921)
as Lester
Nana (1934)
as Colonel André Muffat
Eve's Daughter (1918)
as Courtenay Urquhart
The Mad Empress (1939)
as General Bazaine
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
The Knife (1929)
as The Surgeon