Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill

February 27, 1885

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lionel Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England. He studied architecture before his stage debut at the Garrick Theatre, London in 1904. He become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, and made hi…

Known For

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To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

1942 · 1h 39m · Movie

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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Captain Blood

Captain Blood

1935 · 1h 59m · Movie

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

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Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein

1939 · 1h 39m · Movie

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilita...

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4
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · 1h 20m · Movie

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943 · 1h 14m · Movie

The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman cr...

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House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein

1944 · 1h 11m · Movie

A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.

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Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum

1933 · 1h 17m · Movie

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

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The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942 · 1h 7m · Movie

Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.

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9
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942 · 1h 8m · Movie

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.

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10
House of Dracula

House of Dracula

1945 · 1h 7m · Movie

The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.

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Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire

1935 · 1h 0m · Movie

When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.

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12
Doctor X

Doctor X

1932 · 1h 16m · Movie

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

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13
The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman

1935 · 1h 19m · Movie

A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

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14
Boom Town

Boom Town

1940 · 1h 59m · Movie

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman.

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15
The Vampire Bat

The Vampire Bat

1933 · 1h 5m · Movie

When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.

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Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong

1942 · 1h 24m · Movie

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans...

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Three Comrades

Three Comrades

1938 · 1h 38m · Movie

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

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18
Man Made Monster

Man Made Monster

1941 · 59m · Movie

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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19
Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo

1933 · 1h 2m · Movie

A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.

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The Gorilla

The Gorilla

1939 · 1h 6m · Movie

After a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.

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The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

1938 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from h...

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22
Secret of the Blue Room

Secret of the Blue Room

1933 · 1h 6m · Movie

Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.

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23
The Song of Songs

The Song of Songs

1933 · 1h 30m · Movie

Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.

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24
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

1942 · 1h 6m · Movie

A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human ...

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25
Cairo

Cairo

1942 · 1h 41m · Movie

Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied convoys with robot-planes.

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The Mad Doctor of Market Street

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

1942 · 1h 1m · Movie

A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco after his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees wha...

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The Last Train from Madrid

The Last Train from Madrid

1937 · 1h 25m · Movie

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

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Lost City of the Jungle

Lost City of the Jungle

1946 · 4h 25m · Movie

Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias (Lionel Atwill) sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defense against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang.

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The High Command

The High Command

1937 · 1h 24m · Movie

A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921.

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