Lewis Stone
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball, Lewis Stone's hair turned gray prematurely (reportedly by age 20). Lewis served in the United States Army in the Spanish–American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for The Patriot. After that, he appeared in seven films with Greta Garbo, spanning both the silent and early sound periods. He played the role of Dr. Otternschlag in the Garbo film Grand Hotel, in which he utters the famous closing line: "Grand Hotel. People coming. Going. Nothing ever happens." He played a larger role in the 1933 Garbo film Queen Christina. His appearance in the successful prison film The Big House furthered his career. He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). In 1937, Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney Andy Hardy series. Stone appeared as the judge in fifteen movies, beginning with You're Only Young Once (1937). Stone died in Hancock Park, Los Angeles on September 12, 1953, aged 73. Lewis Stone was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Blvd.
Known for
Credits
Grand Hotel (1932)
as Doctor Otternschlag
Scaramouche (1952)
as Georges de Valmorin
Mata Hari (1931)
as Andriani
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
as Arnold P. Hapgood
Treasure Island (1934)
as Captain Smollett
Queen Christina (1934)
as Oxenstierna
Passion Flower (1930)
as Antonio Morado
State of the Union (1948)
as Sam Thorndyke
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
as The Cardinal
David Copperfield (1935)
as Mr. Wickfield
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
as Captain Holt
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
as Nyland Smith
China Seas (1935)
as Tom Davids
Stolen Heaven (1938)
as Joseph Langauer
Madame X (1929)
as Louis Floriot
The Lost World (1925)
as Sir John Roxton
Bannerline (1951)
as Josh
Out West with the Hardys (1938)
as Judge Hardy
Small Town Girl (1936)
as Dr. Dakin
Outcast (1937)
as Anthony Abbott
Key to the City (1950)
as Judge Silas Standish
The Patriot (1928)
as Count Pahlen
Stars in My Crown (1950)
as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Just This Once (1952)
as Judge Samuel Coulter
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
The Big House (1930)
as Warden James Adams
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
Night Into Morning (1951)
as Dr. Horace Snyder
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
Three Godfathers (1936)
as James 'Doc' Underwood
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Judge Hardy
Letty Lynton (1932)
as District Attorney Haney
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
as Judge Hardy
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
as Father Nolan
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Church Sexton
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
as Police Captain Webb
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
as Jackson Douglas
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
Romance (1930)
as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
The White Sister (1933)
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Carlo Boretti
The Chaser (1938)
as Delford Prescott
Any Number Can Play (1949)
as Ben Gavery Snelerr
Three Wise Fools (1946)
as Judge James Trumbell
The Secret Six (1931)
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
as Judge Hardy
Suzy (1936)
as Baron
The Wet Parade (1932)
as Roger Chilcote
West Point of the Air (1935)
as Gen. Carter
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
as Judge Hardy
The Unknown Man (1951)
as James V. Hulbrook
The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Dr. Dong Tong
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
as James Hardy
Talk About a Stranger (1952)
as William J. Wardlaw
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
as Frank Cousins
Woman Wanted (1935)
as District Attorney
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
as Judge Hardy
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
as Judge Hardy
The Bugle Sounds (1942)
as Col. Jack Lawton
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
as Judge Hardy
Sworn Enemy (1936)
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Maj. Walter Reed
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
as The President
Wild Orchids (1929)
as John Sterling
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
as Judge Hardy
Looking Forward (1933)
as Gabriel Service Sr.
The Office Wife (1930)
as Larry Fellowes
Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
as Prison Warden
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
as Judge Hardy
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
as Arthur Norton
The Blonde Saint (1926)
as Sebastian Maure
Old Loves and New (1926)
as Gervas Carew
Cytherea (1924)
as Lee Randon
My Past (1931)
as John Thornley
Strictly Unconventional (1930)
as Clive Champion-Cheney
The Prince of Headwaiters (1927)
as Pierre
New Morals for Old (1932)
as Mr. Thomas
Their Own Desire (1929)
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
Inspiration (1931)
as Raymond Delval
Night Court (1932)
as Judge William Osgood
You're Only Young Once (1937)
as Judge Hardy
The White Mouse (1921)
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
as Judge Hardy
The Phantom of Paris (1931)
as Inspector Costaud
The Talker (1925)
as Harry Lennox
Shipmates Forever (1935)
as Adm. Richard Melville
Wonder of Women (1929)
as Stephen Tromholt
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934)
Actor
The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
as Lawrence Fontaine
Man's Desire (1919)
as Tom Denton
Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936)
as John Webster
Sporting Blood (1940)
as Davis Lockwood
Scaramouche (1923)
as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
as Judge Hardy (archive footage)
The World's Applause (1923)
as John Elliott
Trifling Women (1922)
as The Marquis Ferroni
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
as Judge Hardy
A Fool There Was (1922)
as John Schuyler
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Adam Paris
You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
as John Burton
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
as Inspector Marney
The Northern Trail (1921)
as Jan Ducet
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
as Police Superintendent Connor
The Man of Bronze (1918)
as John Adams
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) (1939)
as Judge James K. Hardy
Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921)
as Langdon Masters
The Rosary (1922)
as Father Brian Kelly
Midnight Lovers (1926)
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
Husbands and Lovers (1924)
as James Livingston
Strictly Dishonorable (1931)
as Judge Dempsey
Don Juan's 3 Nights (1926)
as Johann Aradi
Men Must Fight (1933)
as Edward Seward
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
as Edward West
The Lady Who Lied (1925)
as Horace Pierpont
Milestones (1920)
as John Rhead
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
as Jerome Hautrive
Unashamed (1932)
as Henry Trask
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
as Menelaus
Father's Son (1931)
as William Emory
The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
The Bargain (1931)
as Maitland White
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
as General Lawrence
Nomads of the North (1920)
as Cpl. O'Connor
Divorce In The Family (1932)
as John Parker
The Foreign Legion (1928)
as Col. Destin
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things (1940)
as Judge Hardy
Inside the Lines (1918)
as Captain Cavendish
Beau Revel (1921)
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
Too Much Money (1926)
as Robert Broadley
An Affair of the Follies (1927)
as Hammersley
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
as Stewart Cuyler
The River's End (1920)
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
The Stranger (1924)
as Keith Darrant
Plan for Destruction (1943)
as Commentator
Lonesome Ladies (1927)
as John Fosdick
Confessions of a Queen (1925)
as The King
Cheaper to Marry (1925)
as Jim Knight
What Fools Men (1925)
as Joseph Greer
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
as Self (uncredited)
The Golden Snare (1921)
as Sergeant Philip Raine
The Notorious Lady (1927)
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
The Concert (1921)
as Augustus Martinot
According to the Code (1916)
as Basil Beckenridge
Always Goodbye (1931)
as John Graham
The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921)
as Edward Berkeley
Freedom of the Press (1928)
as Daniel Steele
Honor's Altar (1916)
as Warren Woods
Why Men Leave Home (1924)
as John Emerson
Pilgrims of the Night (1921)
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
The Dangerous Age (1923)
as John Emerson
The Havoc (1916)
as Richard Craig
Held by the Enemy (1920)
as Capt. Gordon Haine
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920)
as Himself
Fine Clothes (1925)
as Earl of Denham
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923)
as Garth McBride
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940 (1940)
as Himself / Narrator
Some of the Best (1944)
as Himself - Commentator
Holiday Greetings 1941 (1941)
as Himself