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)
(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)
The Unknown Man
as Judge James V. Hulbrook
(1951)
Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
(1951)
Bannerline
as Josh
(1951)
It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
(1951)
Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
(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)
The Hoodlum Saint
as Father Nolan
(1946)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(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)
The Bugle Sounds
as Col. Jack Lawton
(1942)
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1942)
Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Judge Hardy
(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)
Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
as Himself / Narrator
(1939)
The Hardys Ride High
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)
Judge Hardy and Son
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
(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)
The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
(1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1938)
Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
(1938)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
(1937)
Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
(1937)
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
(1937)
You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
(1937)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
(1936)
Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
(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)
Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
(1935)
David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
(1935)
China Seas
as Tom Davids
(1935)
West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
(1935)
Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
(1935)
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
(1935)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
(1934)
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
(1934)
The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
(1934)
(1934)
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Connor
(1933)
Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
(1933)
The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
(1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
(1933)
Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
(1933)
Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
(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)
Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
(1932)
New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
(1932)
Letty Lynton
as District Attorney Haney
(1932)
Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
(1932)
The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
(1932)
Unashamed
as Henry Trask
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Andriani
(1931)
The Secret Six
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Carlo Boretti
(1931)
Inspiration
as Raymond Delval
(1931)
My Past
as John Thornley
(1931)
Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
(1931)
The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
(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)
Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
(1930)
The Office Wife
as Larry Fellowes
(1929)
Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
(1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
(1929)
Madame X
as Louis Floriot
(1929)
Wonder of Women
as Stephen Trombolt
(1928)
A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
(1928)
The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
(1928)
The Foreign Legion
as Col. Destin
(1928)
Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
(1927)
The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
(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
(1926)
The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
(1926)
Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
(1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
(1926)
The Blonde Saint
as Sebastian Maure
(1926)
Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
(1926)
Too Much Money
as Robert Broadley
(1925)
The Lost World
as Sir John Roxton
(1925)
The Talker
as Harry Lennox
(1925)
The Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
(1925)
Cheaper to Marry
as Jim Knight
(1925)
Confessions of a Queen
as The King
(1925)
Fine Clothes
as Earl of Denham
(1925)
What Fools Men
as Joseph Greer
(1924)
Cytherea
as Lee Randon
(1924)
Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
(1924)
The Stranger
as Keith Darrant
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
(1924)
Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
(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)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
(1922)
A Fool There Was
as John Schuyler
(1922)
The Rosary
as Father Brian Kelly
(1922)
Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
(1921)
Beau Revel
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
(1921)
The Child Thou Gavest Me
as Edward Berkeley
(1921)
The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
(1921)
Pilgrims of the Night
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
(1921)
The Golden Snare
as Sergeant Philip Raine
(1921)
The White Mouse
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
(1921)
Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
(1921)
The Northern Trail
as Jan Ducet
(1920)
Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
(1920)
Milestones
as John Rhead
(1920)
Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
(1920)
The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
(1920)
(1919)
Man's Desire
as Tom Denton
(1918)
Inside the Lines
as Captain Cavendish
(1918)
The Man of Bronze
as John Adams
(1916)
The Havoc
as Richard Craig
(1916)
According to the Code
as Basil Beckenridge
(1916)
Honor's Altar
as Warren Woods
Crew
(1919)
Man's Desire
Writer