Lionel Atwill

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-02-27 (61 years old)

Deathday

1946-04-22

Place of Birth

Croydon, London, England, UK

Lionel Atwill

Biography

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 Youn...

Acting

1942

1942

1943

1939

Son of Frankenstein

as Inspector Krogh

1944

House of Frankenstein

as Inspector Arnz

1932

Doctor X

as Dr. Jerry Xavier

1945

House of Dracula

as Police Inspector Holtz

1933

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Dr. James Mortimer

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1935

The Murder Man

as Captain Cole

1918

Eve's Daughter

as Courtenay Urquhart

1945

Fog Island

as Alec Ritchfield

1935

Mark of the Vampire

as Inspector Neumann

1945

Crime, Inc.

as Pat Coyle

1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham

1935

The Devil Is a Woman

as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar

1933

The Vampire Bat

as Dr. Otto von Niemann

1942

Cairo

as Teutonic Gentleman

1934

Stamboul Quest

as Herr Von Sturm

1938

The Great Waltz

as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried

1940

Charlie Chan in Panama

as Cliveden Compton

1940

1935

Captain Blood

as Colonel Bishop

1940

Girl in 313

as Russell aka Henry Woodruff

1933

Murders in the Zoo

as Eric Gorman

1940

Johnny Apollo

as Jim McLaughlin

1944

Lady in the Death House

as Charles Finch

1942

1933

The Sphinx

as Jerome Breen

1935

Rendezvous

as Maj. William Brennan

1942

1940

Boom Town

as Harry Compton

1941

Man-Made Monster

as Dr. Paul Rigas

1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand

1933

1933

The Song of Songs

as Baron von Merzbach

1934

1939

The Gorilla

as Walter Stevens

1942

Night Monster

as Dr. King

1933

The Solitaire Man

as Inspector Wallace

1937

Lancer Spy

as Col. Fenwick

1944

Raiders of Ghost City

as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel

1934

The Age of Innocence

as Julius Beaufort

1939

The Three Musketeers

as De Rochefort

1939

Balalaika

as Professor Marakov

1934

Nana

as Colonel André Muffat

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as Paul Messenger

1937

The Great Garrick

as M. Beaumarchais

1933

Secret of the Blue Room

as Robert von Helldorf

1991

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)

1946

Genius at Work

as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra

1934

Beggars in Ermine

as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels

1937

The High Command

as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye

1936

Absolute Quiet

as Gerald A. Axton

1946

Lost City of the Jungle

as Sir Eric Hazarias

1919

The Marriage Price

as Kenneth Gordon

1939

The Sun Never Sets

as Hugo Zurof

1937

The Wrong Road

as Mike Roberts

1936

1934

The Firebird

as John Pointer

1983

The Horror of It All

as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)

1940

The Great Profile

as Dr. Bruce

1932

The Silent Witness

as Sir Austin Howard

2007

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)

1942

1942

1921

1998

The Wolfman's Cure

as Inspector Holtz

1938

1936

Lady of Secrets

as Mr. Stephen Whittaker

1966

Doom of Dracula

as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)

1939

The Mad Empress

as General Bazaine

1944

Captain America

as Cyrus Maldor

1937

The Road Back

as Prosecutor

1929

The Knife

as The Surgeon

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