Lionel Belmore
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
Frankenstein
as The Burgomaster 1931
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Humility Prim 1938
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Innkeeper (uncredited) 1935
Son of Frankenstein
as Emil Lang 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Judge at Esmeralda's Trial (uncredited) 1939
Design for Living
as Theatre Patron (uncredited) 1933
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Councilman (uncredited) 1942
Three Ages
as Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed) 1923
Topper
as Bank Guard (uncredited) 1937
Cavalcade
as Uncle George (uncredited) 1933
Cleopatra
as Fidius 1934
The Vampire Bat
as Bürgermeister Gustave Schoen 1933
David Copperfield
as Old Bailey Warden (uncredited) 1935
Bonnie Scotland
as Blacksmith 1935
The King of Kings
as Roman Noble 1927
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Higgins 1936
Tower of London
as Beacon - a Chamberlain 1939