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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 14, 1879
Died
September 12, 1953
Place of Birth
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Lewis Shepard Stone
- Lewis S. Stone
- Mr. Lewis Stone
Lewis Stone
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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
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7.0
Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
5.2
Judge Hardy (archive footage)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
1998
6.9
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.3
Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
5.9
Captain Holt
All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953
6.8
The Cardinal
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
7.0
Georges de Valmorin
Scaramouche
1952
6.0
William J. Wardlaw
Talk About a Stranger
1952
3.8
Judge Samuel Coulter
Just This Once
1952
Credits
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy (archive footage)
1998
5.2
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
1964
6.3
All the Brothers Were Valiant
as Captain Holt
1953
5.9
The Prisoner of Zenda
as The Cardinal
1952
6.8
Scaramouche
as Georges de Valmorin
1952
7.0
Talk About a Stranger
as William J. Wardlaw
1952
6.0
Just This Once
as Judge Samuel Coulter
1952
3.8
It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
1951
5.3
The Unknown Man
as Judge James V. Hulbrook
1951
4.8
Angels in the Outfield
as Arnold P. Hapgood
1951
6.7
Bannerline
as Josh
1951
6.0
Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
1951
5.6
Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
1951
4.3
Stars in My Crown
as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
1950
6.9
Key to the City
as Judge Silas Standish
1950
6.2
Any Number Can Play
as Ben Gavery Snelerr
1949
6.9
The Sun Comes Up
as Arthur Norton
1949
6.4
State of the Union
as Sam Thorndyke
1948
6.7
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
1946
5.5
Three Wise Fools
as Judge James Trumbell
1946
5.0
The Hoodlum Saint
as Father Nolan
1946
5.2
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Judge Hardy
1944
5.8
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
Some of the Best
as Himself - Commentator
1944
0.0
Plan for Destruction
as Commentator
1943
6.0
Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Judge Hardy
1942
4.8
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
1942
5.7
The Bugle Sounds
as Col. Jack Lawton
1942
6.0
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Holiday Greetings 1941
as Himself
1941
0.0
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
1941
5.9
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Judge Hardy
1941
5.4
Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
1940
3.5
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Judge Hardy
1940
5.4
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
5.5
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
as Himself / Narrator
1940
0.0
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Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
as Judge Hardy
1940
0.0
Judge Hardy and Son
as Judge Hardy
1939
5.6
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as The President
1939
2.0
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Judge Hardy
1939
5.4
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
The Hardys Ride High
as Judge Hardy
1939
5.8
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
1939
5.6
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Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
as Judge James K. Hardy
1939
5.3
Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
1938
6.4
The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
1938
6.0
Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
1938
6.0
Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
1938
5.6
Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
1938
0.0
Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
1938
6.5
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
1938
5.0
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
1937
6.0
You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
1937
5.5
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
1937
5.5
The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
1937
6.1
Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
1937
0.0
Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
1936
4.0
Sworn Enemy
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
1936
5.3
Suzy
as Baron
1936
5.6
Small Town Girl
as Dr. Dakin
1936
5.9
The Unguarded Hour
as General Lawrence
1936
6.2
Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
1936
6.9
Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
1935
6.5
China Seas
as Tom Davids
1935
6.1
Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
1935
6.3
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
1935
6.2
West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
1935
6.0
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
1935
6.0
David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
1935
6.6
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
1934
6.5
The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
1934
6.9
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.0
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Police Superintendent Connor
1934
6.9
Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
1934
6.8
You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
1934
7.0
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
1933
5.6
Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
1933
6.2
The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
1933
4.9
Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
1933
5.7
The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
1932
7.0
The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Nyland Smith
1932
5.4
Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
1932
6.0
Unashamed
as Henry Trask
1932
6.3
Red-Headed Woman
as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
1932
6.5
Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
1932
6.4
New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
1932
3.6
Grand Hotel
as Doctor Otternschlag
1932
7.0
Letty Lynton
as District Attorney Haney
1932
6.8
The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
1932
5.8
Mata Hari
as Andriani
1931
6.2
Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
1931
5.1
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Carlo Boretti
1931
5.7
The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
1931
5.9
The Bargain
as Maitland White
1931
0.0
Always Goodbye
as John Graham
1931
0.0
My Past
as John Thornley
1931
3.3
The Secret Six
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
1931
5.5
Father's Son
as William Emory
1931
0.0
Inspiration
as Raymond Delval
1931
5.5
Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
1930
5.1
The Office Wife
as Larry Fellowes
1930
4.7
Romance
as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
1930
6.2
The Big House
as Warden James Adams
1930
6.6
Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
1930
2.7
Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
1929
4.7
Madame X
as Louis Floriot
1929
6.1
Wonder of Women
as Stephen Tromholt
1929
3.0
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
1929
6.0
Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
1929
6.3
A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
1928
6.4
Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
1928
0.0
The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
1928
5.0
The Foreign Legion
as Col. Destin
1928
0.0
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
as Menelaus
1927
3.5
The Prince of Headwaiters
as Pierre
1927
0.0
Lonesome Ladies
as John Fosdick
1927
0.0
The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
1927
7.0
An Affair of the Follies
as Hammersley
1927
0.0
The Blonde Saint
as Sebastian Maure
1926
0.0
Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
1926
6.0
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
1926
1.0
Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
1926
2.3
The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
1926
0.0
Too Much Money
as Robert Broadley
1926
0.0
What Fools Men
as Joseph Greer
1925
1.0
Fine Clothes
as Earl of Denham
1925
0.0
The Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
1925
0.0
The Talker
as Harry Lennox
1925
1.0
Confessions of a Queen
as The King
1925
7.0
Cheaper to Marry
as Jim Knight
1925
0.0
The Lost World
as Sir John Roxton
1925
6.7
Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
1924
0.0
Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
1924
0.0
Cytherea
as Lee Randon
1924
0.0
Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
1924
1.0
The Stranger
as Keith Darrant
1924
0.0
Scaramouche
as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
1923
7.2
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Garth McBride
1923
0.0
The Dangerous Age
as John Emerson
1923
0.0
The World's Applause
as John Elliott
1923
0.0
Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
1922
1.0
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
1922
6.3
A Fool There Was
as John Schuyler
1922
0.0
The Rosary
as Father Brian Kelly
1922
0.0
The White Mouse
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
1921
0.0
Pilgrims of the Night
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
1921
0.0
The Child Thou Gavest Me
as Edward Berkeley
1921
0.0
Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
1921
0.0
The Golden Snare
as Sergeant Philip Raine
1921
0.0
The Northern Trail
as Jan Ducet
1921
0.0
Beau Revel
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
1921
4.0
The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
1921
0.0
Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
1920
0.0
Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
1920
5.5
Milestones
as John Rhead
1920
0.0
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
as Himself
1920
6.0
The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
1920
0.0
Man's Desire
as Tom Denton
1919
0.0
The Man of Bronze
as John Adams
1918
0.0
Inside the Lines
as Captain Cavendish
1918
0.0
According to the Code
as Basil Beckenridge
1916
0.0
The Havoc
as Richard Craig
1916
0.0
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Honor's Altar
as Warren Woods
1916
0.0