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Biography
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 starring 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. His interment was at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Partial filmography
- In the Latin Quarter (1915) *director
- Madame X (1920)
- Godless Men (1920)
- Kindred of the Dust (1922)
- Iron to Gold (1922)
- The Galloping Kid (1922)
- Oliver Twist (1922)
- Peg o' My Heart (1922)
- A Lady of Quality (1924)
- The Silent Watcher (1924)
- Eve's Secret (1925)
- Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
- Madame Behave (1925)
- Return of Grey Wolf (1926)
- Stop, Look and Listen (1926)
- Shipwrecked (1926)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
- The Return of Peter Grimm (1926)
- Rose-Marie (1928)
- The Matinee Idol (1928)
- Heart Trouble (1928)
- The Circus Kid (1928)
- Stark Mad (1929)
- The Unholy Night (1929)
- Evidence (1929)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Alexander Hamilton (1931)
- Shanghaied Love (1931)
- 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 Vampire11 (1935) bit part
- Maid of Salem (1937)
- Service de Luxe (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- 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)
