Lionel Alfred William Atwill
| Sign | Pisces |
| Born | Mar 1, 1885 Croydon, London |
| Died | Apr 22, 1946 Pacific Palisades, CA |
| Age | Died at 61 |
| Final Resting PlaceChapel Of The Pines Crematory | |
Lionel Atwill | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1905-1946 |
| Known for | Suave, impeccable diction, faintly seedy sophistication; mad professors, crooked lawyers, staring-eyed scientists |
| Top Roles | Professor James Moriarty, Prof. Marakov, Mayor of Vasaria, Jim McLaughlin, Col. Bishop |
| Top Genres | Drama, Horror, Romance, Mystery, Comedy, Crime |
| Top Topics | Monster, Spies, World War II |
| Top Collaborators | Holmes Herbert, Basil Rathbone, Darryl F. Zanuck (Producer), Carl Laemmle Jr. (Producer) |
| Shares birthday with | David Niven, Harry Belafonte, Jack Clayton see more.. |
Lionel Atwill Overview:
Character actor, Lionel Atwill, was born Lionel Alfred William Atwill on Mar 1, 1885 in Croydon, London. Atwill appeared in 75 film roles. His best known films include Captain Blood (as Colonel Bishop), To Be or Not to Be (as Rawitch), Boom Town (as Harry Compton), and most notably -- Mystery of the Wax Museum (as Ivan Igor), Son of Frankenstein (as Krogh) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (as Professor James Moriarty). Atwill died at the age of 61 on Apr 22, 1946 in Pacific Palisades, CA and was laid to rest in Chapel Of The Pines Crematory Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.
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Suave and usually moustachioed, Lionel Atwill was an actor of impeccable diction and an air of faintly seedy sophistication. His characters suppurated corruption under their skins of suavity. He went from Britain to Hollywood, where he was soon playing dozens of mad professors, crooked lawyers and staring-eyed scientists, but made a memorable Moriarty to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. His career survived a rather pofaced scandal in the early 1940s over the showing of 'blue movies' at his home.
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Lionel Atwill Quotes:
Inspector Neumann: I know. We all thought our vampire scheme was so simple, so certain of success. We never thought we'd fail.
Dr. Paul Rigas: ...eventually a race of superior men can be developed, men whose only wants are electricity.
Dr. John Lawrence: But, man, you're challenging the forces of Creation!
Dr. Paul Rigas: The forces of Creation? Bah! You know as well as I do that more than half the people of the world are doomed to a life of mediocrity - born to be nonentities, millstones around the neck of progress, men who have to be fed, watched, looked over, and taken care of by a superior intelligence. My theory is to make these people of more use to the world. By successive treatments their bodies can be so electrolyzed that they are no longer subject to the pains and frailties of ordinary mankind.
Dr. John Lawrence: Sometimes I think you are mad.
Dr. Paul Rigas: I am! So was Archimedes, Galileo. Newton, Pasteur, Lister, and all the others who dared to dream!
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