Lewis Stone
156 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 14, 1879
- Died
- Sep 12, 1953 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Also known as
- Lewis Shepard Stone · Lewis S. Stone · Mr. Lewis Stone
Biography
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Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player.
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Born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball, Lewis Stone's hair turned gray prematurely (reportedly by age 20). Lewis served in the United States Army in the Spanish–American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting.
Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for The Patriot. After that, he appeared in seven films with Greta Garbo, spanning both the silent and early sound periods. He played the role of Dr. Otternschlag in the Garbo film Grand Hotel, in which he utters the famous closing line: "Grand Hotel. People coming. Going. Nothing ever happens."
He played a larger role in the 1933 Garbo film Queen Christina. His appearance in the successful prison film The Big House furthered his career. He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933). In 1937, Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney Andy Hardy series. Stone appeared as the judge in fifteen movies, beginning with You're Only Young Once (1937).
Stone died in Hancock Park, Los Angeles on September 12, 1953, aged 73.
Lewis Stone was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Blvd.
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Known for
Lewis Stone: movies and TV shows
Acting (156)
- 1998 Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy (archive footage)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
- 1953 All the Brothers Were Valiant
as Captain Holt
- 1952 The Prisoner of Zenda
as The Cardinal
- 1952 Scaramouche
as Georges de Valmorin
- 1952 Talk About a Stranger
as William J. Wardlaw
- 1952 Just This Once
as Judge Samuel Coulter
- 1951 It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
- 1951 The Unknown Man
as James V. Hulbrook
- 1951 Angels in the Outfield
as Arnold P. Hapgood
- 1951 Bannerline
as Josh
- 1951 Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
- 1951 Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
- 1950 Stars in My Crown
as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
- 1950 Key to the City
as Judge Silas Standish
- 1949 Any Number Can Play
as Ben Gavery Snelerr
- 1949 The Sun Comes Up
as Arthur Norton
- 1948 State of the Union
as Sam Thorndyke
- 1946 Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
- 1946 Three Wise Fools
as Judge James Trumbell
- 1946 The Hoodlum Saint
as Father Nolan
- 1944 Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Judge Hardy
- 1944 Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
- 1943 Plan for Destruction
as Commentator
- 1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Judge Hardy
- 1942 The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
- 1942 The Bugle Sounds
as Col. Jack Lawton
- 1941 Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
- 1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Judge Hardy
- 1940 Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
- 1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Judge Hardy
- 1940
- 1939 Judge Hardy and Son
as Judge Hardy
- 1939 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as The President
- 1939 Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Judge Hardy
- 1939 The Hardys Ride High
as Judge Hardy
- 1939 The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
- 1939 Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
as Judge James K. Hardy
- 1938 Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
- 1938 The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
- 1938 Love Finds Andy Hardy
as James Hardy
- 1938 Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
- 1938 Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
- 1938 Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
- 1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
- 1937 You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
- 1937 The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
- 1937 The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
- 1937 Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
- 1936 Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
- 1936 Sworn Enemy
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
- 1936 Suzy
as Baron
- 1936 Small Town Girl
as Dr. Dakin
- 1936 The Unguarded Hour
as General Lawrence
- 1936 Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
- 1935 Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
- 1935 China Seas
as Tom Davids
- 1935 Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
- 1935 Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
- 1935 West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
- 1935 Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
- 1935 David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
- 1934 Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
- 1934 The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
- 1934
- 1934 The Mystery of Mr. X
as Police Superintendent Connor
- 1934 Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
- 1934 You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
- 1933 Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
- 1933 Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
- 1933 The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
- 1933 Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
- 1932 The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
- 1932 The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Nyland Smith
- 1932 Grand Hotel
as Doctor Otternschlag
- 1932 Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
- 1932 Unashamed
as Henry Trask
- 1932 Red-Headed Woman
as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
- 1932 Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
- 1932 New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
- 1932 Letty Lynton
as District Attorney Haney
- 1932 The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
- 1931 Mata Hari
as Andriani
- 1931 Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
- 1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Carlo Boretti
- 1931 The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
- 1931 The Bargain
as Maitland White
- 1931 Always Goodbye
as John Graham
- 1931 My Past
as John Thornley
- 1931 The Secret Six
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
- 1931 Father's Son
as William Emory
- 1931 Inspiration
as Raymond Delval
- 1930 Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
- 1930 The Office Wife
as Larry Fellowes
- 1930 Romance
as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
- 1930 The Big House
as Warden James Adams
- 1930 Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
- 1929 Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
- 1929 Madame X
as Louis Floriot
- 1929 Wonder of Women
as Stephen Tromholt
- 1929 The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
- 1929 Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
- 1928 A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
- 1928 Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
- 1928 The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
- 1928 The Foreign Legion
as Col. Destin
- 1927 The Private Life of Helen of Troy
as Menelaus
- 1927 The Prince of Headwaiters
as Pierre
- 1927 Lonesome Ladies
as John Fosdick
- 1927 The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
- 1927 An Affair of the Follies
as Hammersley
- 1926 The Blonde Saint
as Sebastian Maure
- 1926 Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
- 1926 Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
- 1926 Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
- 1926 The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
- 1926 Too Much Money
as Robert Broadley
- 1925 What Fools Men
as Joseph Greer
- 1925 Fine Clothes
as Earl of Denham
- 1925 The Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
- 1925 The Talker
as Harry Lennox
- 1925 Confessions of a Queen
as The King
- 1925 Cheaper to Marry
as Jim Knight
- 1925 The Lost World
as Sir John Roxton
- 1924 Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
- 1924 Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
- 1924 Cytherea
as Lee Randon
- 1924 Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
- 1924 The Stranger
as Keith Darrant
- 1923 Scaramouche
as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
- 1923 You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Garth McBride
- 1923 The Dangerous Age
as John Emerson
- 1923 The World's Applause
as John Elliott
- 1922 Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
- 1922 The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
- 1922 A Fool There Was
as John Schuyler
- 1922 The Rosary
as Father Brian Kelly
- 1921 The White Mouse
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
- 1921 Pilgrims of the Night
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
- 1921 The Child Thou Gavest Me
as Edward Berkeley
- 1921 Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
- 1921 The Golden Snare
as Sergeant Philip Raine
- 1921 The Northern Trail
as Jan Ducet
- 1921 Beau Revel
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
- 1921 The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
- 1920 Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
- 1920 Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
- 1920 Milestones
as John Rhead
- 1920 The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
- 1919 Man's Desire
as Tom Denton
- 1918 The Man of Bronze
as John Adams
- 1918 Inside the Lines
as Captain Cavendish
- 1916 According to the Code
as Basil Beckenridge
- 1916 The Havoc
as Richard Craig
- 1916 Honor's Altar
as Warren Woods
Behind the camera (1)
- 1919 Man's Desire
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2004
- 2003
- 1955 MGM Parade
1 episode
- 1944
- 1941
- 1940
- 1940
- 1939
- 1938
- 1920