
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

The Horror of It All

To Be or Not to Be

Three Comrades

海賊ブラッド

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Murder Man

Boom Town

Johnny Apollo

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan in Panama

フランケンシュタインの復活

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

The Solitaire Man

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Pardon My Sarong

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Beggars in Ermine

The Great Profile

The Road Back

The Devil Is a Woman

Night Monster

フランケンシュタインと狼男

Mark of the Vampire

Man-Made Monster

フランケンシュタインの館

Doctor X

Raiders of Ghost City

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Genius at Work

Junior G-Men of the Air

Lady of Secrets

The Song of Songs

The Great Garrick

Lost City of the Jungle

Cairo

Murders in the Zoo

The Three Musketeers

フランケンシュタインの幽霊

Lancer Spy

The Great Waltz

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The High Command

The Mad Empress

ドラキュラとせむし女

Secret of the Blue Room

Absolute Quiet

The Firebird

The Silent Witness

Girl in 313

Fog Island

The Vampire Bat

Lady in the Death House

Captain America

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Nana

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Stamboul Quest

The Age of Innocence

The Sun Never Sets

The Sphinx

One More River

The Gorilla

Till We Meet Again

Crime, Inc.

Balalaika

The Wrong Road

Rendezvous

The Last Train from Madrid

The Horror Show

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Eve's Daughter

The Marriage Price

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

The Highest Bidder

The Wolfman's Cure

Doom of Dracula

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes