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3 | Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor. He became a star in Broadway theatre by 1918 and made his screen debut in 1919. |
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5 | He acted on the stage in Australia before becoming involved in U.S. horror film roles in the 1930s, including leading roles in ''Film/DoctorX'' (1932), ''Film/TheVampireBat'', ''Film/MurdersInTheZoo'' and ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'' (all 1933), and perhaps most memorably as the one-armed Inspector Krogh in ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' (1939), a role famously parodied by Kenneth Mars in Creator/MelBrooks' 1974 satire ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. He appeared in four subsequent Franchise/{{Universal|Horror}} ''Frankenstein'' pictures, as well as many other of the studio's beloved chillers. |
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7 | Atwill's other roles include a romantic lead opposite Creator/MarleneDietrich in Creator/JosefVonSternberg's ''The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935), a crooked insurance investigator in ''The Wrong Road'' (1937) for RKO, Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Fox's film version of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939), and Professor Moriarty in the Universal Studios film ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon'' (1943). He also had a rare comedy role in Creator/ErnstLubitsch's 1942 classic ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' and that same year menaced Creator/AbbottAndCostello in ''Pardon My Sarong''. He died during the filming of his last project, the Universal serial ''Lost City of the Jungle'', causing the makers to use a FakeShemp. |
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10 | !!Lionel Atwill on TV Tropes: |
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14 | * ''Film/DoctorX'' (1932) as Dr. Jerry Xavier |
15 | * ''Film/TheVampireBat'' (1933) as Dr. Otto von Niemann |
16 | * ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'' (1933) as Ivan Igor |
17 | * ''Film/MurdersInTheZoo'' (1933) as Eric Gorman |
18 | * ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'' (1934) as Julius Beaufort |
19 | * ''Film/MarkOfTheVampire'' (1935) as Inspector Neumann |
20 | * ''Film/TheMurderMan'' (1935) as Captain Cole |
21 | * ''Film/CaptainBlood'' (1935) as Colonel Bishop |
22 | * ''Film/{{Rendezvous}}'' (1935) as William Brennan |
23 | * ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' (1939) as Inspector Krogh |
24 | * ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1939}}'' (1939) as De Rochefort |
25 | * ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939) as James Mortimer M.D. |
26 | * ''[[Film/DrKildare The Secret of Dr. Kildare]]'' (1939) as Paul Messenger |
27 | * ''[[Film/CharlieChan Charlie Chan in Panama]]'' (1940) as Cliveden Compton |
28 | * ''[[Film/CharlieChan Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise]]'' (1940) as Dr. Suderman |
29 | * ''Film/{{Boom Town|1940}}'' (1940) as Harry Compton |
30 | * ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' (1941) as Rawitch |
31 | * ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein'' (1942) as Doctor Theodore Bohmer |
32 | * ''Film/PardonMySarong'' (1942) as Varnoff |
33 | * ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon'' (1943) as Moriarty |
34 | * ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' (1943) as Mayor |
35 | * ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' (1944) as Inspector Arnz |
36 | * ''Film/HouseOfDracula'' (1945) as Police Inspector Holtz |
37 | * ''Film/LostCityOfTheJungle'' (1946) as Sir Eric Hazarias |
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