Lionel Atwill
Actor·1885–1946·Croydon, London, England, UK
25 horror credits
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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).
Actor25 films
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
The Wolfman's Cure
Inspector Holtz
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Doom of Dracula
Arntz, Police Officer (archive footage)
House of Dracula
Police Inspector Holtz
Fog Island
Alec Ritchfield
House of Frankenstein
Inspector Arnz
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Mayor of Vasaria
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Professor Moriarty
Night Monster
Dr. King
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Dr. Fish
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Dr. Bohmer
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Man-Made Monster
Dr. Paul Rigas
The Gorilla
Walter Stevens
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. James Mortimer
Son of Frankenstein
Inspector Krogh
Mark of the Vampire
Inspector Neumann
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Henry Dumont
Secret of the Blue Room
Robert von Helldorf
Murders in the Zoo
Eric Gorman
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Ivan Igor
The Vampire Bat
Dr. Otto von Niemann
Doctor X
Dr. Jerry Xavier