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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 14, 1879
Place of Birth:
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy (archive footage) |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage) |
| 1953 | All the Brothers Were Valiant | Captain Holt |
| 1952 | The Prisoner of Zenda | The Cardinal |
| 1952 | Talk About a Stranger | William J. Wardlaw |
| 1952 | Just This Once | Judge Samuel Coulter |
| 1952 | Scaramouche | Georges de Valmorin |
| 1951 | The Unknown Man | Judge James V. Hulbrook |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Church Sexton |
| 1951 | Bannerline | Josh |
| 1951 | Grounds for Marriage | Dr. Carleton Radwin Young |
| 1951 | Night Into Morning | Dr. Horace Snyder |
| 1951 | Angels in the Outfield | Arnold P. Hapgood |
| 1950 | Key to the City | Judge Silas Standish |
| 1950 | Stars in My Crown | Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr. |
| 1949 | Any Number Can Play | Ben Gavery Snelerr |
| 1949 | The Sun Comes Up | Arthur Norton |
| 1948 | State of the Union | Sam Thorndyke |
| 1946 | Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy |
| 1946 | The Hoodlum Saint | Father Nolan |
| 1946 | Three Wise Fools | Judge James Trumbell |
| 1944 | Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble | Judge Hardy |
| 1944 | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) |
| 1944 | Some of the Best | Himself - Commentator |
| 1943 | Plan for Destruction | Commentator |
| 1942 | The Courtship of Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy |
| 1942 | The Bugle Sounds | Col. Jack Lawton |
| 1942 | Andy Hardy's Double Life | Judge Hardy |
| 1941 | Life Begins for Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy |
| 1941 | Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | Judge Hardy |
| 1941 | Holiday Greetings 1941 | Himself |
| 1940 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | Judge Hardy |
| 1940 | Sporting Blood | Davis Lockwood |
| 1940 | Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things | Judge Hardy |
| 1940 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940 | Himself / Narrator |
| 1940 | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self |
| 1939 | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Judge Hardy |
| 1939 | Judge Hardy and Son | Judge Hardy |
| 1939 | The Hardys Ride High | Judge Hardy |
| 1939 | The Ice Follies of 1939 | Douglas Tolliver Jr. |
| 1939 | Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) | Judge James K. Hardy |
| 1939 | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | The President |
| 1939 | From the Ends of the Earth | Self |
| 1938 | Love Finds Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy |
| 1938 | Out West with the Hardys | Judge Hardy |
| 1938 | Judge Hardy's Children | Judge Hardy |
| 1938 | Yellow Jack | Maj. Walter Reed |
| 1938 | Stolen Heaven | Joseph Langauer |
| 1938 | The Chaser | Delford Prescott |
| 1938 | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) |
| 1937 | You're Only Young Once | Judge Hardy |
| 1937 | The Thirteenth Chair | Inspector Marney |
| 1937 | The Man Who Cried Wolf | Lawrence Fontaine |
| 1937 | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Jackson Douglas |
| 1937 | Outcast | Anthony Abbott |
| 1936 | Suzy | Baron |
| 1936 | Small Town Girl | Dr. Dakin |
| 1936 | Three Godfathers | James 'Doc' Underwood |
| 1936 | The Unguarded Hour | General Lawrence |
| 1936 | Don't Turn 'em Loose | John Webster |
| 1936 | Sworn Enemy | Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle |
| 1935 | David Copperfield | Mr. Wickfield |
| 1935 | China Seas | Tom Davids |
| 1935 | West Point of the Air | Gen. Carter |
| 1935 | Vanessa: Her Love Story | Adam Paris |
| 1935 | Shipmates Forever | Adm. Richard Melville |
| 1935 | Woman Wanted | District Attorney |
| 1935 | Public Hero Number 1 | Prison Warden |
| 1934 | Treasure Island | Captain Smollett |
| 1934 | The Mystery of Mr. X | Connor |
| 1934 | You Can't Buy Everything | John Burton |
| 1934 | The Girl from Missouri | Frank Cousins |
| 1934 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | |
| 1933 | Queen Christina | Oxenstierna |
| 1933 | Bureau of Missing Persons | Police Captain Webb |
| 1933 | The White Sister | Prince Guido Chiaromonte |
| 1933 | Men Must Fight | Edward Seward |
| 1933 | Looking Forward | Gabriel Service Sr. |
| 1932 | The Mask of Fu Manchu | Nyland Smith |
| 1932 | Grand Hotel | Doctor Otternschlag |
| 1932 | Red-Headed Woman | William 'Will' Legendre Sr. |
| 1932 | Divorce In The Family | John Parker |
| 1932 | The Wet Parade | Roger Chilcote |
| 1932 | Night Court | Judge William Osgood |
| 1932 | Letty Lynton | District Attorney Haney |
| 1932 | The Son-Daughter | Dr. Dong Tong |
| 1932 | New Morals for Old | Mr. Thomas |
| 1932 | Unashamed | Henry Trask |
| 1931 | Inspiration | Raymond Delval |
| 1931 | The Secret Six | Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law |
| 1931 | Mata Hari | Andriani |
| 1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Carlo Boretti |
| 1931 | The Phantom of Paris | Inspector Costaud |
| 1931 | Strictly Dishonorable | Judge Dempsey |
| 1931 | My Past | John Thornley |
| 1931 | Always Goodbye | John Graham |
| 1931 | Father's Son | William Emory |
| 1931 | The Bargain | Maitland White |
| 1930 | The Big House | Warden James Adams |
| 1930 | Romance | Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl |
| 1930 | The Office Wife | Larry Fellowes |
| 1930 | Passion Flower | Antonio Morado |
| 1930 | Strictly Unconventional | Clive Champion-Cheney |
| 1929 | Wild Orchids | John Sterling |
| 1929 | Madame X | Louis Floriot |
| 1929 | Their Own Desire | Henry 'Hal' Marlett |
| 1929 | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Edward West |
| 1929 | Wonder of Women | Stephen Trombolt |
| 1928 | A Woman of Affairs | Dr. Hugh Trevelyan |
| 1928 | The Patriot | Count Pahlen |
| 1928 | The Foreign Legion | Col. Destin |
| 1928 | Freedom of the Press | Daniel Steele |
| 1927 | The Notorious Lady | Patrick Marlowe / John Carew |
| 1927 | The Private Life of Helen of Troy | Menelaus |
| 1927 | The Prince of Headwaiters | Pierre |
| 1927 | Lonesome Ladies | John Fosdick |
| 1927 | An Affair of the Follies | Hammersley |
| 1926 | Midnight Lovers | Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC |
| 1926 | Don Juan's 3 Nights | Johann Aradi |
| 1926 | The Girl from Montmartre | Jerome Hautrive |
| 1926 | Old Loves and New | Gervas Carew |
| 1926 | Too Much Money | Robert Broadley |
| 1926 | The Blonde Saint | Sebastian Maure |
| 1925 | The Lost World | Sir John Roxton |
| 1925 | Confessions of a Queen | The King |
| 1925 | What Fools Men | Joseph Greer |
| 1925 | The Lady Who Lied | Horace Pierpont |
| 1925 | The Talker | Harry Lennox |
| 1925 | Cheaper to Marry | Jim Knight |
| 1925 | Fine Clothes | Earl of Denham |
| 1924 | Cytherea | Lee Randon |
| 1924 | Why Men Leave Home | John Emerson |
| 1924 | The Stranger | Keith Darrant |
| 1924 | Husbands and Lovers | James Livingston |
| 1924 | Inez from Hollywood | Stewart Cuyler |
| 1923 | Scaramouche | The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr |
| 1923 | The World's Applause | John Elliott |
| 1923 | The Dangerous Age | John Emerson |
| 1923 | You Can't Fool Your Wife | Garth McBride |
| 1922 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf |
| 1922 | Trifling Women | The Marquis Ferroni |
| 1922 | A Fool There Was | John Schuyler |
| 1922 | The Rosary | Father Brian Kelly |
| 1921 | Beau Revel | Lawrence 'Beau' Revel |
| 1921 | Don't Neglect Your Wife | Langdon Masters |
| 1921 | The Child Thou Gavest Me | Edward Berkeley |
| 1921 | The White Mouse | Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P. |
| 1921 | Pilgrims of the Night | Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham |
| 1921 | The Golden Snare | Sergeant Philip Raine |
| 1921 | The Northern Trail | Jan Ducet |
| 1921 | The Concert | Augustus Martinot |
| 1920 | Nomads of the North | Cpl. O'Connor |
| 1920 | The River's End | Derwent Conniston/John Keith |
| 1920 | A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios | Himself |
| 1920 | Held by the Enemy | Capt. Gordon Haine |
| 1920 | Milestones | John Rhead |
| 1919 | Man's Desire | Tom Denton |
| 1918 | The Man of Bronze | John Adams |
| 1918 | Inside the Lines | Captain Cavendish |
| 1916 | According to the Code | Basil Beckenridge |
| 1916 | The Havoc | Richard Craig |
| 1916 | Honor's Altar | Warren Woods |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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