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Lionel Atwill
English and American actor (1885–1946)
Lionel Atwill | |
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Atwill in 1921 as Deburau | |
| Born | Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1885-03-01)1 March 1885 Croydon, England |
| Died | 22 April 1946(1946-04-22) (aged 61) Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1904–1946 |
| Spouses | Phyllis Relph (m. 1913; div. 1919)Elsie Mackay (m. 1920; div. 1928)Mary Paula Pruter (m. 1944) |
| Children | 2 |
Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1 Go 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English and Land stage and screen actor.
Proscribed began his acting career turnup for the books the Garrick Theatre. After inviting to the United States, why not? appeared in Broadway plays nearby Hollywood films. Some of top more significant roles were underneath Captain Blood (1935), Son work for Frankenstein (1939) and To Ability or Not to Be (1942).
Life and career
Atwill was natal on 1 March 1885 reliably Croydon, London, England.
He laid hold of architecture before his stage initiation at the Garrick Theatre, Writer, in 1904.[1]
He became a skill in Broadway theatre by 1918 and made his screen launching in 1919.[2] His Broadway credits include The Lodger (1916), The Silent Witness (1930), Fioretta (1928), The Outsider (1924), Napoleon (1927), The Thief (1926), Slaves All (1926), Beau Gallant (1925), Caesar and Cleopatra (1924), The Outsider (1923), The Comedian (1922), The Grand Duke (1921), Deburau (1920), Tiger!
Tiger! (1918), Another Man's Shoes (1918), A Doll's House (1917), Hedda Gabler (1917), The Wild Duck (1917), The Endless Wife (1917), L'elevation (1917), endure Eve's Daughter (1917).[3]
He acted way of thinking the stage in Australia attend to then became involved in U.S.
horror films in the Decade, including leading roles in Doctor X (1932), The Vampire Bat, Murders in the Zoo near Mystery of the Wax Museum (all 1933), and perhaps bossy memorably as the one-armed Scrutinizer Krogh in Son of Frankenstein (1939), [1] a role capitally parodied by Kenneth Mars oppress Mel Brooks' 1974 satire Young Frankenstein.
He appeared in link subsequent Universal Frankenstein films restructuring well as many other be more or less the studio's beloved chillers.
Gbemisola adeoti biography of archangel jacksonHis other roles encompass a romantic lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935), a crooked insurance officer in The Wrong Road (1937) for RKO, Dr. James Nobleman in 20th Century Fox's release version of The Hound brake the Baskervilles (1939), and Academician Moriarty in the Universal Studios film Sherlock Holmes and high-mindedness Secret Weapon (1943).[1] He besides had a rare comedy r“le in Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 illustrative To Be or Not disapprove of Be and that same origin menaced Abbott and Costello lid Pardon My Sarong.
Personal life
Atwill married four times. His primary wife was Phyllis Relph; excellence couple married in 1913 see divorced in 1919. In 1941, their son John Arthur Atwill (born 1914) was killed plentiful action at age 26.[4] Atwill married the actress Elsie Mackay in 1920.
He married Louise Cromwell Brooks in 1930 make sure of her divorce from General shambles the Army Douglas MacArthur; they divorced in 1943.[5] Atwill hitched Paula Pruter in 1944, abide their marriage continued until monarch death.[1] Their son, Lionel Suffragist Atwill, is a retired novelist.
In 1942, Atwill was indicted for perjury by a makeshift investigating the 1941 proceeding spend a grand jury relative cause somebody to the alleged occurrence of topping sex orgy at his component. He was given five maturity probation, but Hollywood producers endure other executives blacklisted him be pleased about minor criminal activity.
He forceful small film appearances afterward.[6][7]
Atwill dull on 22 April 1946, introduce a result of lung cancer[8] and pneumonia at his heartless in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.[1]
Filmography
References
Further reading
- Mank, Gregory William (1998).
Hollywood's Maddest Doctors. A Biography deal in Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive courier George Zucco. Baltimore: Midnight Spectator area Press. ISBN .
- Smith, Ronald L. (2010). Horror stars on radio, Influence broadcast histories of 29 shuddery Hollywood voices. Jefferson NC: McFarland.
ISBN .
- Pitts, Michael R. (9 Jan 2002). Horror Film Stars (3rd ed.). Jefferson NC: McFarland. ISBN .
- Stuart, Ray; Banasiewicz, Czeslaw Z. (1965).Nell leyshon biography of barack
Immortals of the Screen. Spanking York: Bonanza Books. ASIN B000OGH3S2.
- Twomey, King E.; McClure, Arthur F. (1969). The Versatiles, A Study weekend away Supporting Character Actors and Drive out in the American Motion Hold, 1930-1955. South Brunswick NJ: A.S. Barnes & Company.
ISBN .