Lionel Belmore
Lionel Belmore | |
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![]() Lionel Belmore in Little Lord Fauntleroy | |
Born |
Wimbledon, Surrey, England | 12 May 1867
Died |
30 January 1953 85) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California | (aged
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1914–45 |
Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867 – 30 January 1953) was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century.
Life and career
Onstage, Belmore appeared with Wilson Barrett, Sir Henry Irving, William Faversham, Lily Langtry, and other famous actors. He entered in films from 1911. In total, he had some 200 titles to his film credit. He was notable as the huffy-puffy Herr Vogel the Burgomaster in Frankenstein (1931). Belmore played bit parts in several 1930s film classics. Unusually, he was a director before he became a prolific actor. He directed from 1914 to 1920, only acting in a limited number of films, until concentrating as an actor from then on.
He was the brother of the actress Daisy Belmore (Mrs. Samuel Waxman) (1874-1954) and the actor Paul Belmore. He was married to stage actress Emmeline Florence Carder and they had two daughters. Their daughter Violet had decided to follow in her father's footsteps and go into acting.
[1] His interment was at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Partial filmography
- In the Latin Quarter (1915) (director)
- The Wasp (1918) (director, actor)
- Duds (1920)
- Madame X (1920)
- Godless Men (1920)
- Jes' Call Me Jim (1920)
- The Strange Boarder (1920)
- The Great Lover (1920)
- Two Minutes to Go (1921)
- Guile of Women (1921)
- The Barnstormer (1922)
- Kindred of the Dust (1922)
- Iron to Gold (1922)
- The Galloping Kid (1922)
- Oliver Twist (1922)
- Peg o' My Heart (1922)
- Jazzmania (1923)
- A Lady of Quality (1924)
- A Boy of Flanders (1924)
- The Sea Hawk (1924)
- The Silent Watcher (1924)
- Eve's Secret (1925)
- Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
- Madame Behave (1925)
- Stop, Look and Listen (1926)
- The Blackbird (1926)
- Shipwrecked (1926)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
- The Checkered Flag (1926)
- The Return of Peter Grimm (1926)
- Return of Grey Wolf (1926)
- Oh Billy, Behave (1926)
- The Demi-Bride (1927)
- The Tender Hour (1927)
- The Sunset Derby (1927)
- Rose-Marie (1928)
- The Matinee Idol (1928)
- The Good-Bye Kiss (1928)
- Heart Trouble (1928)
- The Play Girl (1928)
- The Circus Kid (1928)
- Stark Mad (1929)
- The Unholy Night (1929)
- Evidence (1929)
- Devil-May-Care (1929)
- From Headquarters (1929)
- Captain of the Guard (1930)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Alexander Hamilton (1931)
- Shanghaied Love (1931)
- Police Court (1932)
- Vanity Fair (1932)
- The Man Called Back (1932)
- The Vampire Bat (1933)
- Oliver Twist (1933)
- Jane Eyre (1934)
- Caravan (1934)
- Cleopatra (1934)
- Red Morning (1934)
- Mark of the Vampire (1935) bit part
- Maid of Salem (1937)
- The Toast of New York (1937)
- Service de Luxe (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Humility Prim (uncredited)
- Son of Frankenstein (1939)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
- Tower of London (1939)
- The Sun Never Sets (1939)
- My Son, My Son! (1940)
- The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
- The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, released in 1945)
Footnotes
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lionel Belmore. |
- Lionel Belmore on IMDb
- Lionel Belmore at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lionel Belmore at Find a Grave