Lewis Stone
Born: 1879-11-14 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1953-09-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2004
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
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)
1955
- MGM Parade as self
1953
- All the Brothers Were Valiant as Captain Holt
1952
- Scaramouche as Georges de Valmorin
- The Prisoner of Zenda as The Cardinal
- Just This Once as Judge Samuel Coulter
- Talk About a Stranger as William J. Wardlaw
1951
- Angels in the Outfield as Arnold P. Hapgood
- It's a Big Country as Church Sexton
- The Unknown Man as James V. Hulbrook
- Bannerline as Josh
- Night Into Morning as Dr. Horace Snyder
- Grounds for Marriage as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
1950
- Key to the City as Judge Silas Standish
- Stars in My Crown as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
1949
- Any Number Can Play as Ben Gavery Snelerr
- The Sun Comes Up as Arthur Norton
1948
- State of the Union as Sam Thorndyke
1946
- The Hoodlum Saint as Father Nolan
- Three Wise Fools as Judge James Trumbell
- Love Laughs at Andy Hardy as Judge Hardy
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble as Judge Hardy
- Some of the Best as Himself - Commentator
1943
- Plan for Destruction as Commentator
1942
- The Bugle Sounds as Col. Jack Lawton
- Andy Hardy's Double Life as Judge Hardy
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy as Judge Hardy
1941
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary as Judge Hardy
- Life Begins for Andy Hardy as Judge Hardy
- Holiday Greetings 1941 as Himself
1940
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- Sporting Blood as Davis Lockwood
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Judge Hardy
- Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things as Judge Hardy
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940 as Himself / Narrator
1939
- The Ice Follies of 1939 as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as The President
- From the Ends of the Earth as Self
- Judge Hardy and Son as Judge Hardy
- Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever as Judge Hardy
- The Hardys Ride High as Judge Hardy
- Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) as Judge James K. Hardy
1938
- Yellow Jack as Maj. Walter Reed
- Love Finds Andy Hardy as Judge Hardy
- Judge Hardy's Children as Judge Hardy
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
- Out West with the Hardys as Judge Hardy
- The Chaser as Delford Prescott
- Stolen Heaven as Joseph Langauer
1937
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Jackson Douglas
- Outcast as Anthony Abbott
- You're Only Young Once as Judge Hardy
- The Thirteenth Chair as Inspector Marney
- The Man Who Cried Wolf as Lawrence Fontaine
1936
- Suzy as Baron
- Small Town Girl as Dr. Dakin
- Three Godfathers as James 'Doc' Underwood
- Don't Turn 'em Loose as John Webster
- Sworn Enemy as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
- The Unguarded Hour as General Lawrence
1935
- David Copperfield as Mr. Wickfield
- China Seas as Tom Davids
- Shipmates Forever as Adm. Richard Melville
- Public Hero Number 1 as Prison Warden
- Woman Wanted as District Attorney
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as Adam Paris
- West Point of the Air as Gen. Carter
1934
- Queen Christina as Oxenstierna
- Treasure Island as Captain Smollett
- The Girl from Missouri as Frank Cousins
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
- You Can't Buy Everything as John Burton
- The Mystery of Mr. X as Police Superintendent Connor
1933
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Police Captain Webb
- Looking Forward as Gabriel Service Sr.
- The White Sister as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
- Men Must Fight as Edward Seward
1932
- Grand Hotel as Doctor Otternschlag
- Red-Headed Woman as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
- The Mask of Fu Manchu as Nyland Smith
- Night Court as Judge William Osgood
- Letty Lynton as District Attorney Haney
- New Morals for Old as Mr. Thomas
- The Wet Parade as Roger Chilcote
- The Son-Daughter as Dr. Dong Tong
- Unashamed as Henry Trask
- Divorce In The Family as John Parker
1931
- Mata Hari as Andriani
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Carlo Boretti
- The Secret Six as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
- Strictly Dishonorable as Judge Dempsey
- Inspiration as Raymond Delval
- The Phantom of Paris as Inspector Costaud
- My Past as John Thornley
- Father's Son as William Emory
- Always Goodbye as John Graham
- The Bargain as Maitland White
1930
- The Big House as Warden James Adams
- Romance as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
- Strictly Unconventional as Clive Champion-Cheney
- The Office Wife as Larry Fellowes
- Passion Flower as Antonio Morado
1929
- Madame X as Louis Floriot
- Their Own Desire as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
- Wild Orchids as John Sterling
- Wonder of Women as Stephen Tromholt
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Edward West
1928
- A Woman of Affairs as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
- The Patriot as Count Pahlen
- Freedom of the Press as Daniel Steele
- The Foreign Legion as Col. Destin
1927
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy as Menelaus
- The Prince of Headwaiters as Pierre
- Lonesome Ladies as John Fosdick
- An Affair of the Follies as Hammersley
- The Notorious Lady as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
1926
- The Girl from Montmartre as Jerome Hautrive
- The Blonde Saint as Sebastian Maure
- Old Loves and New as Gervas Carew
- Too Much Money as Robert Broadley
- Don Juan's 3 Nights as Johann Aradi
- Midnight Lovers as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
1925
- The Lost World as Sir John Roxton
- What Fools Men as Joseph Greer
- The Lady Who Lied as Horace Pierpont
- Cheaper to Marry as Jim Knight
- Confessions of a Queen as The King
- Fine Clothes as Earl of Denham
- The Talker as Harry Lennox
1924
- Why Men Leave Home as John Emerson
- Husbands and Lovers as James Livingston
- Cytherea as Lee Randon
- Inez from Hollywood as Stewart Cuyler
- The Stranger as Keith Darrant
1923
- Scaramouche as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
- The World's Applause as John Elliott
- The Dangerous Age as John Emerson
- You Can't Fool Your Wife as Garth McBride
1922
- A Fool There Was as John Schuyler
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
- Trifling Women as The Marquis Ferroni
- The Rosary as Father Brian Kelly
1921
- The Child Thou Gavest Me as Edward Berkeley
- Pilgrims of the Night as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
- The Northern Trail as Jan Ducet
- The Concert as Augustus Martinot
- The White Mouse as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
- Beau Revel as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
- The Golden Snare as Sergeant Philip Raine
- Don't Neglect Your Wife as Langdon Masters
1920
- The River's End as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
- Nomads of the North as Cpl. O'Connor
- Milestones as John Rhead
- Held by the Enemy as Capt. Gordon Haine
- A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios as Himself
1919
- Man's Desire as Tom Denton
1918
- Inside the Lines as Captain Cavendish
- The Man of Bronze as John Adams
1916
- According to the Code as Basil Beckenridge
- Honor's Altar as Warren Woods
- The Havoc as Richard Craig