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