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Profile of Lionel Atwill
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Lionel Atwill |
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1st March 1885 |
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Croydon, London, England, UK |
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Lionel Atwill (March 1, 1885 - April 22, 1946) was a stage and film actor born in London, England.
He began his career in theatre, but was most famous for his horror roles in the 1930s. His two most memorable parts were as the crazed, disfigured sculptor in The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Warner Brothers, 1933) -- a role also played by Vincent Price in the 1953 remake, House of Wax-- and as Inspector Krogh in Son of Frankenstein (1939), memorably sent up by Kenneth Mars in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein (1974). He remained a stalwart of the Universal horror films until his career flagged in the 1940s due to a widely publicized sex scandal.
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