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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 27, 1885
Died
April 22, 1946
Place of Birth
Croydon, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Лайонел Этвилл
- Lionel Alfred William Atwill
Lionel Atwill
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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 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
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Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
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Inspector Holtz
The Wolfman's Cure
1998
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
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Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
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Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
The Horror of It All
1983
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(archive footage)
The Horror Show
1979
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Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
Doom of Dracula
1966
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Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Genius at Work
1946
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Sir Eric Hazarias
Lost City of the Jungle
1946
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Police Inspector Holtz
House of Dracula
1945
Credits
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
2007
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The Wolfman's Cure
as Inspector Holtz
1998
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
1991
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The Horror of It All
as Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
1983
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The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979
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Doom of Dracula
as Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
1966
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Genius at Work
as Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
1946
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Lost City of the Jungle
as Sir Eric Hazarias
1946
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House of Dracula
as Police Inspector Holtz
1945
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Crime, Inc.
as Pat Coyle
1945
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Fog Island
as Alec Ritchfield
1945
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House of Frankenstein
as Inspector Arnz
1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard
as Waterlow
1944
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Raiders of Ghost City
as Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
1944
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Lady in the Death House
as Charles Finch
1944
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Captain America
as Cyrus Maldor
1944
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Mayor of Vasaria
1943
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Professor Moriarty
1942
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Night Monster
as Dr. King
1942
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Dead End Kids Go To War
as The Baron
1942
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Cairo
as Teutonic Gentleman
1942
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Pardon My Sarong
as Varnoff
1942
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Junior G-Men of the Air
as The Baron
1942
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
as Dr. Fish
1942
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Dr. Bohmer
1942
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To Be or Not to Be
as Rawitch
1942
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street
as Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
1942
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Man-Made Monster
as Dr. Paul Rigas
1941
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The Great Profile
as Dr. Bruce
1940
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Boom Town
as Harry Compton
1940
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Girl in 313
as Russell aka Henry Woodruff
1940
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Dr. Suderman
1940
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Johnny Apollo
as Jim McLaughlin
1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama
as Cliveden Compton
1940
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The Mad Empress
as General Bazaine
1939
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Balalaika
as Professor Marakov
1939
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Paul Messenger
1939
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
as Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
1939
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The Sun Never Sets
as Hugo Zurof
1939
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The Gorilla
as Walter Stevens
1939
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Dr. James Mortimer
1939
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The Three Musketeers
as De Rochefort
1939
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Son of Frankenstein
as Inspector Krogh
1939
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The Great Waltz
as Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
1938
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Three Comrades
as Breuer
1938
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The Great Garrick
as M. Beaumarchais
1937
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The Wrong Road
as Mike Roberts
1937
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Lancer Spy
as Col. Fenwick
1937
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The High Command
as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
1937
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The Last Train from Madrid
as Col. Vigo
1937
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The Road Back
as Prosecutor
1937
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Absolute Quiet
as Gerald A. Axton
1936
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Till We Meet Again
as Ludwig
1936
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Lady of Secrets
as Mr. Stephen Whittaker
1936
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Captain Blood
as Colonel Bishop
1935
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Rendezvous
as Maj. William Brennan
1935
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The Murder Man
as Captain Cole
1935
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The Devil Is a Woman
as Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
1935
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Mark of the Vampire
as Inspector Neumann
1935
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as Henry Dumont
1934
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The Firebird
as John Pointer
1934
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The Age of Innocence
as Julius Beaufort
1934
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One More River
as Brough
1934
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Stamboul Quest
as Herr Von Sturm
1934
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Beggars in Ermine
as John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
1934
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Nana
as Colonel André Muffat
1934
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The Solitaire Man
as Inspector Wallace
1933
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Secret of the Blue Room
as Robert von Helldorf
1933
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The Song of Songs
as Baron von Merzbach
1933
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The Sphinx
as Jerome Breen
1933
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Murders in the Zoo
as Eric Gorman
1933
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Ivan Igor
1933
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Aubrey St. John
1933
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The Vampire Bat
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
1933
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Doctor X
as Dr. Jerry Xavier
1932
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The Silent Witness
as Sir Austin Howard
1932
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The Knife
as The Surgeon
1929
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The Highest Bidder
as Lester
1921
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The Marriage Price
as Kenneth Gordon
1919
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Eve's Daughter
as Courtenay Urquhart
1918
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