Lionel Atwill
| Lionel Atwill | |
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| Born |
1 March 1885 Croydon, London, England, U.K. |
| Died | 22 April 1946 (aged 61) Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1905–1946 |
| Spouse(s) | Phyllis Relph (1913-1919) (divorced) 1 child Elsie Mackay (1920-1928) (divorced) Henrietta Louise Cromwell Brook MacArthur (1930-1943) (divorced) Mary Paula Pruter (1944-1946) (his death) 1 child |
Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor.
Atwill was born on 1 March 1885 in Croydon, London, England. He studied architecture before his stage debut at the Garrick Theatre, London, in 1904.
He became a star in Broadway theatre by 1918 and made his screen debut in 1919.
He acted on the stage in Australia before becoming involved in U.S. horror film roles in the 1930s, such as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner Brothers, 1933), and as Inspector Krogh in Son of Frankenstein (1939).
His other roles include The Wrong Road (1937) for RKO and Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Fox's film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), and Professor Moriarty in the Universal Studios film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943).
He married four times. His first wife was Phyllis Ralph; the couple married in 1913 and divorced in 1919. In 1941 their son, John Arthur Atwill (born 1914), was killed in action aged 26. Atwill married the American actress Elsie Mackay in 1920, and Louise Cromwell Brooks in 1930; they divorced in 1943.
She had previously been married to Douglas MacArthur. Atwill's fourth and final wife was Mary Paula Shilstone (d. 2002) in 1944 for the remainder of his life; She gave birth to his only surviving child, Lionel Anthony Atwill, now a retired writer.
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