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 Brookss 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 1937s 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 Atwills other notable non-horror roles were opposite his contemporary Basil Rathbone in films featuring Arthur Conan Doyles character Sherlock Holmes, including a role as Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Foxs 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
Dr. Bohmer
Film 1942
Mayor of Vasaria
Film 1943
Inspector Krogh
Film 1939
Dr. Jerry Xavier
Film 1932
Police Inspector Holtz
Film 1945
Ivan Eigor
Film 1933
Dr. James Mortimer
Film 1939
Captain Cole
Film 1935
Courtenay Urquhart
Film 1918
Inspector Neumann
Film 1935
Pat Coyle
Film 1945
Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham
Film 1942
Dr. Otto von Niemann
Film 1933
Teutonic Gentleman
Film 1942
Herr Von Sturm
Film 1934
Russell aka Henry Woodruff
Film 1940
Eric Gorman
Film 1933
Jim McLaughlin
Film 1940
Charles Finch
Film 1944
Professor Moriarty
Film 1942
Inspector Neumann - (archive footage)
Film 1986
The Baron
Film 1942
Dr. Fish
Film 1942
Dr. Paul Rigas
Film 1941
Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand
Film 1939
Aubrey St. John
Film 1933
Baron von Merzbach
Film 1933
Brough
Film 1934
Walter Stevens
Film 1939
Inspector Wallace
Film 1933
Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel
Film 1944
Julius Beaufort
Film 1934
Professor Marakov
Film 1939
Colonel André Muffat
Film 1934
Paul Messenger
Film 1939
Henry Dumont
Film 1934
Robert von Helldorf
Film 1933
Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage)
Film 1991
Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Film 1946
John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels
Film 1934
Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye
Film 1937
Gerald A. Axton
Film 1936
Waterlow
Film 1944
Sir Eric Hazarias
Film 1946
Kenneth Gordon
Film 1919
Hugo Zurof
Film 1939
Mike Roberts
Film 1937
Ludwig
Film 1936
John Pointer
Film 1934
Col. Vigo
Film 1937
Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage)
Film 1983
Dr. Bruce
Film 1940
Sir Austin Howard
Film 1932
Dr. Xavier (archive footage)
Film 2007
Police Official (archive footage)
Film 1965
The Baron
Film 1942
Lester
Film 1921
Film
Mr. Stephen Whittaker
Film 1936
Arntz, police officer
Film 1966
General Bazaine
Film 1939
Film 1996
Prosecutor
Film 1937
The Surgeon
Film 1929