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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).
The roles that explain the career.
64 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Doctor Bohmer / Krogh (archive footage) | Film |
| 1983 | The Horror of It All | Dr. Otto von Niemann (archive footage) | Film |
| 1946 | Lost City of the Jungle | Sir Eric Hazarias | Film |
| 1946 | Genius at Work | Latimer Marsh / The Cobra | Film |
| 1945 | House of Dracula | Police Inspector Holtz | Film |
| 1945 | Fog Island | Alec Ritchfield | Film |
| 1945 | Crime, Inc. | Pat Coyle | Film |
| 1944 | Lady in the Death House | Charles Finch | Film |
| 1944 | Secrets of Scotland Yard | Waterlow | Film |
| 1944 | Raiders of Ghost City | Erich von Rugen, alias Alex Morel | Film |
| 1944 | Captain America | Cyrus Maldor | Film |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein | Inspector Arnz | Film |
| 1943 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Mayor of Vasaria | Film |
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Professor Moriarty | Film |
| 1942 | Cairo | Teutonic Gentleman | Film |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein | Dr. Bohmer | Film |
| 1942 | Pardon My Sarong | Varnoff | Film |
| 1942 | Junior G-Men of the Air | The Baron | Film |
| 1942 | The Mad Doctor of Market Street | Dr. Ralph Benson, posing as Graham | Film |
| 1942 | The Strange Case of Doctor Rx | Dr. Fish | Film |
| 1942 | Night Monster | Dr. King | Film |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be | Rawitch | Film |
| 1941 | Man-Made Monster | Dr. Paul Rigas | Film |
| 1940 | Girl in 313 | Russell aka Henry Woodruff | Film |
| 1940 | The Great Profile | Dr. Bruce | Film |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan in Panama | Cliveden Compton | Film |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Dr. Suderman | Film |
| 1940 | Johnny Apollo | Jim McLaughlin | Film |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Harry Compton | Film |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation | Prof. Roger Chauncey Hildebrand | Film |
| 1939 | Balalaika | Professor Marakov | Film |
| 1939 | Son of Frankenstein | Inspector Krogh | Film |
| 1939 | The Gorilla | Walter Stevens | Film |
| 1939 | The Three Musketeers | De Rochefort | Film |
| 1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr. James Mortimer | Film |
| 1939 | The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Paul Messenger | Film |
| 1938 | The Great Waltz | Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried | Film |
| 1938 | Three Comrades | Breuer | Film |
| 1937 | The Great Garrick | M. Beaumarchais | Film |
| 1937 | The Road Back | Prosecutor | Film |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy | Col. Fenwick | Film |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road | Mike Roberts | Film |
| 1937 | The High Command | Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye | Film |
| 1936 | Absolute Quiet | Gerald A. Axton | Film |
| 1935 | Captain Blood | Colonel Bishop | Film |
| 1935 | The Devil Is a Woman | Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar | Film |
| 1935 | Rendezvous | Maj. William Brennan | Film |
| 1935 | The Murder Man | Captain Cole | Film |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire | Inspector Neumann | Film |
| 1934 | The Man Who Reclaimed His Head | Henry Dumont | Film |
| 1934 | Stamboul Quest | Herr Von Sturm | Film |
| 1934 | One More River | Brough | Film |
| 1934 | The Age of Innocence | Julius Beaufort | Film |
| 1934 | Nana | Colonel André Muffat | Film |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine | John 'Flint' Dawson aka John Daniels | Film |
| 1933 | The Vampire Bat | Dr. Otto von Niemann | Film |
| 1933 | Secret of the Blue Room | Robert von Helldorf | Film |
| 1933 | Mystery of the Wax Museum | Ivan Igor | Film |
| 1933 | The Solitaire Man | Inspector Wallace | Film |
| 1933 | The Sphinx | Jerome Breen | Film |
| 1933 | Murders in the Zoo | Eric Gorman | Film |
| 1933 | The Secret of Madame Blanche | Aubrey St. John | Film |
| 1933 | The Song of Songs | Baron von Merzbach | Film |
| 1932 | Doctor X | Dr. Jerry Xavier | Film |
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