Captain Blood1935
As Colonel Bishop
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Lionel Atwill
Born
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
Filmography (79)
To Be or Not to Be1942
As Rawitch
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Son of Frankenstein1939
As Inspector Krogh
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Ghost of Frankenstein1942
As Dr. Bohmer
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man1943
As Mayor of Vasaria
TMDb 6.2 / 10
House of Dracula1945
As Police Inspector Holtz
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Johnny Apollo1940
As Jim McLaughlin
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Hound of the Baskervilles1939
As Dr. James Mortimer
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Song of Songs1933
As Baron von Merzbach
TMDb 6.0 / 10
House of Frankenstein1944
As Inspector Arnz
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Doctor X1932
As Dr. Jerry Xavier
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon1942
As Professor Moriarty
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Mark of the Vampire1935
As Inspector Neumann
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Pardon My Sarong1942
As Varnoff
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Age of Innocence1934
As Julius Beaufort
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Mystery of the Wax Museum1933
As Ivan Igor
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Man-Made Monster1941
As Dr. Paul Rigas
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Stamboul Quest1934
As Herr Von Sturm
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Boom Town1940
As Harry Compton
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook1991
As Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Murders in the Zoo1933
As Eric Gorman
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Three Comrades1938
As Breuer
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise1940
As Dr. Suderman
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Captain America1944
As Cyrus Maldor
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Night Monster1942
As Dr. King
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Murder Man1935
As Captain Cole
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Cairo1942
As Teutonic Gentleman
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Three Musketeers1939
As De Rochefort
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Vampire Bat1933
As Dr. Otto von Niemann
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Devil Is a Woman1935
As Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation1939
As Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Sun Never Sets1939
As Hugo Zurof
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Mad Doctor of Market Street1942
As Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Sphinx1933
As Jerome Breen
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Last Train from Madrid1937
As Col. Vigo
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Charlie Chan in Panama1940
As Cliveden Compton
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Silent Witness1932
As Sir Austin Howard
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx1942
As Dr. Fish
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Great Waltz1938
As Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Wrong Road1937
As Mike Roberts
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Girl in 3131940
As Russell aka Henry Woodruff
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Crime, Inc.1945
As Pat Coyle
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Lost City of the Jungle1946
As Sir Eric Hazarias
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The High Command1937
As Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Lancer Spy1937
As Col. Fenwick
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Nana1934
As Colonel André Muffat
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Junior G-Men of the Air1942
As The Baron
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Secret of the Blue Room1933
As Robert von Helldorf
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Rendezvous1935
As Maj. William Brennan
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The Secret of Dr. Kildare1939
As Paul Messenger
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Horror Show1979
As (archive footage)
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb2007
As Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
One More River1934
As Brough
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Balalaika1939
As Professor Marakov
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head1934
As Henry Dumont
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Absolute Quiet1936
As Gerald A. Axton
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Great Profile1940
As Dr. Bruce
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Great Garrick1937
As M. Beaumarchais
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Eve's Daughter1918
As Courtenay Urquhart
The Secret of Madame Blanche1933
As Aubrey St. John
TMDb 4.2 / 10
The Horror of It All1983
As Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
TMDb 8.3 / 10
The Marriage Price1919
As Kenneth Gordon
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Mad Empress1939
As General Bazaine
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Genius at Work1946
As Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Till We Meet Again1936
As Ludwig
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Gorilla1939
As Walter Stevens
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Lady in the Death House1944
As Charles Finch
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Fog Island1945
As Alec Ritchfield
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Lady of Secrets1936
As Mr. Stephen Whittaker
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Raiders of Ghost City1944
As Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Solitaire Man1933
As Inspector Wallace
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Secrets of Scotland Yard1944
As Waterlow
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Firebird1934
As John Pointer
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Road Back1937
As Prosecutor
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Highest Bidder1921
As Lester
TMDb 10.0 / 10
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes1996
The Knife
The Knife1929
As The Surgeon
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Dead End Kids Go To War
Dead End Kids Go To War1942
As The Baron
Beggars in Ermine1934
As John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb