Lionel Belmore
Known For
Acting
Born
1867-05-11 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Died
1953-01-30
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867, Wimbledon, Surrey, England - 30 January 1953, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lionel Belmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
MGM Parade
as Self
Stingaree
as Governor's Second Aide (uncredited)
Jazzmania
as Baron Bolo
Rose-Marie
as Henri Duray
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Judge at Esmeralda's Trial (uncredited)
Vanity Fair
as Sir Pitt Crawley
Frankenstein
as The Burgomaster
Malay Nights
as Buck - Bartender
Bonnie Scotland
as Blacksmith
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Humility Prim
Madame Behave
as Seth Corwin
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
Son of Frankenstein
as Emil Lang
Evidence
as Inkeeper
Milestones
as Richard Sibley Sr
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Councilman (uncredited)
Cleopatra
as Fidius
Cavalcade
as Uncle George (uncredited)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Higgins
Madame X
as M. Robert Parissard