Lionel Atwill

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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,...

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To Be or Not to BeMovie • 1942Captain BloodMovie • 1935Frankenstein Meets the Wolf ManMovie • 1943Mark of the VampireMovie • 1935The Hound of the BaskervillesMovie • 1939Son of FrankensteinMovie • 1939House of FrankensteinMovie • 1944House of DraculaMovie • 1945Sherlock Holmes and the Secret WeaponMovie • 1942The Ghost of FrankensteinMovie • 1942Mystery of the Wax MuseumMovie • 1933Boom TownMovie • 1940Johnny ApolloMovie • 1940The Devil Is a WomanMovie • 1935Doctor XMovie • 1932Three ComradesMovie • 1938Man-Made MonsterMovie • 1941Murders in the ZooMovie • 1933Captain AmericaMovie • 1944The Song of SongsMovie • 1933Charlie Chan in PanamaMovie • 1940Pardon My SarongMovie • 1942The GorillaMovie • 1939Fog IslandMovie • 1945