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BIRTHDAY
DIED
April 22, 1946

RECENT CREDITS
Murders in the Zoo (FILM)  Jan. 1, 2003
Boom Town (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1940
The Devil Is a Woman (FILM)  Mar. 15, 1935
Captain Blood (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1935
Song of Songs (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1933
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BIOGRAPHY
Prolific British stage actor who came to America in 1916 and starred as a romantic lead on Broadway. Although Atwill made his screen debut in 1916, he is best known as the suavely menacing villain (most often a sinister....
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Prolific British stage actor who came to America in 1916 and starred as a romantic lead on Broadway. Although Atwill made his screen debut in 1916, he is best known as the suavely menacing villain (most often a sinister mad doctor) of countless Hollywood horror films of the 1930s and 40s, most notably "Doctor X" (1932), "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933, an especially superb performance), "Murders in the Zoo" (1933) and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1939). He was also memorable as the stolid, one-armed police chief doggedly searching for the monster in the horror sequel, "Son of Frankenstein" (1939). Rather stocky in middle age, with an incisive manner and a rich voice beautifully suited to the delivery of ruefully ironic dialogue, Atwill also gave a fine account of himself as one of several men dangerously obsessed with Concha (Marlene Dietrich) in Josef von Sternberg's memorable "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).
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Charles Ruggles
Murders in the Zoo
Released: Jan. 1, 2003

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Boom Town
Released: Jan. 1, 1940

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The Devil Is a Woman
Released: Mar. 15, 1935

Errol Flynn
Captain Blood
Released: Jan. 1, 1935

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Released: Jan. 1, 1932


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