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