Lewis Stone
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1879-11-14
Day of Death
1953-09-12 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Lewis Stone
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.
Known For
Acting
(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)
(1953)
All the Brothers Were Valiant
as Captain Holt
(1952)
Scaramouche
as Georges de Valmorin
(1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as The Cardinal
(1952)
Talk About a Stranger
as William J. Wardlaw
(1952)
Just This Once
as Judge Samuel Coulter
(1951)
Angels in the Outfield
as Arnold P. Hapgood
(1951)
It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
(1951)
The Unknown Man
as Judge James V. Hulbrook
(1951)
Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
(1951)
Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
(1951)
Bannerline
as Josh
(1950)
Key to the City
as Judge Silas Standish
(1950)
Stars in My Crown
as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
(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)
The Hoodlum Saint
as Father Nolan
(1946)
Three Wise Fools
as Judge James Trumbell
(1944)
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Judge Hardy
(1944)
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1944)
Some of the Best
as Himself - Commentator
(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)
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Holiday Greetings 1941
as Himself
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Judge Hardy
(1940)
(1940)
Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
(1940)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
as Himself / Narrator
(1940)
(1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
(1939)
Judge Hardy and Son
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as The President
(1939)
The Hardys Ride High
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1939)
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
as Judge James K. Hardy
(1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1938)
Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
(1937)
You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
(1937)
Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
(1937)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
(1937)
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
(1936)
Small Town Girl
as Dr. Dakin
(1936)
Suzy
as Baron
(1936)
Sworn Enemy
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
(1936)
The Unguarded Hour
as General Lawrence
(1936)
Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
(1936)
Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
(1935)
David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
(1935)
China Seas
as Tom Davids
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
(1935)
West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
(1935)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
(1935)
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
(1935)
Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
(1934)
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
(1934)
The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
(1934)
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
(1934)
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Connor
(1933)
Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
(1933)
Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
(1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
(1933)
The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
(1933)
Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
(1932)
Grand Hotel
as Doctor Otternschlag
(1932)
Red-Headed Woman
as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
(1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Nyland Smith
(1932)
Letty Lynton
as District Attorney Haney
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
(1932)
Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
(1932)
The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
(1932)
Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
(1932)
Unashamed
as Henry Trask
(1932)
New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
(1931)
The Secret Six
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Andriani
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Carlo Boretti
(1931)
Inspiration
as Raymond Delval
(1931)
The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
(1931)
My Past
as John Thornley
(1931)
Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
(1931)
The Bargain
as Maitland White
(1931)
Always Goodbye
as John Graham
(1931)
Father's Son
as William Emory
(1930)
The Big House
as Warden James Adams
(1930)
Romance
as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
(1930)
The Office Wife
as Larry Fellowes
(1930)
Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
(1929)
Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
(1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
(1929)
Madame X
as Louis Floriot
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
(1929)
Wonder of Women
as Stephen Trombolt
(1928)
The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
(1928)
A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
(1928)
Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
(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)
An Affair of the Follies
as Hammersley
(1927)
The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
(1926)
The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
(1926)
Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
(1926)
Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
(1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
(1926)
Too Much Money
as Robert Broadley
(1926)
The Blonde Saint
as Sebastian Maure
(1925)
The Lost World
as Sir John Roxton
(1925)
Cheaper to Marry
as Jim Knight
(1925)
The Talker
as Harry Lennox
(1925)
Fine Clothes
as Earl of Denham
(1925)
Confessions of a Queen
as The King
(1925)
What Fools Men
as Joseph Greer
(1925)
The Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
(1924)
Cytherea
as Lee Randon
(1924)
Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
(1924)
Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
(1924)
The Stranger
as Keith Darrant
(1923)
Scaramouche
as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
(1923)
The Dangerous Age
as John Emerson
(1923)
The World's Applause
as John Elliott
(1923)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Garth McBride
(1922)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
(1922)
Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
(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)
The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
(1921)
Beau Revel
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
(1921)
Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
(1921)
The Northern Trail
as Jan Ducet
(1921)
The Golden Snare
as Sergeant Philip Raine
(1920)
Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
(1920)
Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
(1920)
(1920)
The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
(1920)
Milestones
as John Rhead
(1919)
Man's Desire
as Tom Denton
(1918)
Inside the Lines
as Captain Cavendish
(1918)
The Man of Bronze
as John Adams
(1916)
According to the Code
as Basil Beckenridge
(1916)
The Havoc
as Richard Craig
(1916)
Honor's Altar
as Warren Woods
Crew
(1919)
Man's Desire
Writer