Lionel Atwill
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 27, 1885, Croydon, London, England, UK
- Died
- April 22, 1946
- Movies
- 79
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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).
Best-Known Movies
To Be or Not to Be
1942
Son of Frankenstein
1939
Captain Blood
1935
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
House of Frankenstein
1944
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
House of Dracula
1945
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
Filmography
| 2007 | Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb | Dr. Xavier (archive footage) |
| 1996 | In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes | |
| 1991 | Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage) |
| 1983 | The Horror of It All | Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage) |
| 1979 | The Horror Show | (archive footage) |
| 1946 | Genius at Work | Latimer Marsh / The Cobra |
| 1946 | Lost City of the Jungle | Sir Eric Hazarias |
| 1945 | House of Dracula | Police Inspector Holtz |
| 1945 | Crime, Inc. | Pat Coyle |
| 1945 | Fog Island | Alec Ritchfield |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein | Inspector Arnz |
| 1944 | Secrets of Scotland Yard | Waterlow |
| 1944 | Raiders of Ghost City | Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel |
| 1944 | Lady in the Death House | Charles Finch |
| 1944 | Captain America | Cyrus Maldor |
| 1943 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Mayor of Vasaria |
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Professor Moriarty |
| 1942 | Night Monster | Dr. King |
| 1942 | Dead End Kids Go To War | The Baron |
| 1942 | Cairo | Teutonic Gentleman |
| 1942 | Pardon My Sarong | Varnoff |
| 1942 | Junior G-Men of the Air | The Baron |
| 1942 | The Strange Case of Doctor Rx | Dr. Fish |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein | Dr. Bohmer |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be | Rawitch |
| 1942 | The Mad Doctor of Market Street | Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham |
| 1941 | Man-Made Monster | Dr. Paul Rigas |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Harry Compton |
| 1940 | The Great Profile | Dr. Bruce |
| 1940 | Girl in 313 | Russell aka Henry Woodruff |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Dr. Suderman |
| 1940 | Johnny Apollo | Jim McLaughlin |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan in Panama | Cliveden Compton |
| 1939 | The Mad Empress | General Bazaine |
| 1939 | Balalaika | Professor Marakov |
| 1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Paul Messenger |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation | Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand |
| 1939 | The Sun Never Sets | Hugo Zurof |
| 1939 | The Gorilla | Walter Stevens |
| 1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr. James Mortimer |
| 1939 | The Three Musketeers | De Rochefort |
| 1939 | Son of Frankenstein | Inspector Krogh |
| 1938 | The Great Waltz | Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried |
| 1938 | Three Comrades | Breuer |
| 1937 | The Great Garrick | M. Beaumarchais |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road | Mike Roberts |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy | Col. Fenwick |
| 1937 | The High Command | Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye |
| 1937 | The Last Train from Madrid | Col. Vigo |
| 1937 | The Road Back | Prosecutor |
| 1936 | Absolute Quiet | Gerald A. Axton |
| 1936 | Till We Meet Again | Ludwig |
| 1936 | Lady of Secrets | Mr. Stephen Whittaker |
| 1935 | Captain Blood | Colonel Bishop |
| 1935 | Rendezvous | Maj. William Brennan |
| 1935 | The Murder Man | Captain Cole |
| 1935 | The Devil Is a Woman | Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire | Inspector Neumann |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Henry Dumont |
| 1934 | The Firebird | John Pointer |
| 1934 | The Age of Innocence | Julius Beaufort |
| 1934 | One More River | Brough |
| 1934 | Stamboul Quest | Herr Von Sturm |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine | John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels |
| 1934 | Nana | Colonel André Muffat |
| 1933 | The Solitaire Man | Inspector Wallace |
| 1933 | Secret of the Blue Room | Robert von Helldorf |
| 1933 | The Song of Songs | Baron von Merzbach |
| 1933 | The Sphinx | Jerome Breen |
| 1933 | Murders in the Zoo | Eric Gorman |
| 1933 | Mystery of the Wax Museum | Ivan Igor |
| 1933 | The Secret of Madame Blanche | Aubrey St. John |
| 1933 | The Vampire Bat | Dr. Otto von Niemann |
| 1932 | Doctor X | Dr. Jerry Xavier |
| 1932 | The Silent Witness | Sir Austin Howard |
| 1929 | The Knife | The Surgeon |
| 1921 | The Highest Bidder | Lester |
| 1919 | The Marriage Price | Kenneth Gordon |
| 1918 | Eve's Daughter | Courtenay Urquhart |
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