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.
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)
Just This Once
as Judge Samuel Coulter
(1952)
Talk About a Stranger
as William J. Wardlaw
(1951)
Angels in the Outfield
as Arnold P. Hapgood
(1951)
The Unknown Man
as Judge James V. Hulbrook
(1951)
It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
(1951)
Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
(1951)
Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
(1951)
Bannerline
as Josh
(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)
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)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Holiday Greetings 1941
as Himself
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Judge Hardy
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
(1940)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
as Himself / Narrator
(1939)
Judge Hardy and Son
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
The Hardys Ride High
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
(1939)
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as The President
(1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
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)
Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
(1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
(1938)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1938)
The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
(1937)
You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
(1937)
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
(1937)
Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
(1937)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
(1936)
Small Town Girl
as Dr. Dakin
(1936)
Suzy
as Baron
(1936)
The Unguarded Hour
as General Lawrence
(1936)
Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
(1936)
Sworn Enemy
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
(1936)
Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
(1935)
David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
(1935)
China Seas
as Tom Davids
(1935)
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
(1935)
West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
(1935)
Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
(1935)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
(1934)
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
(1934)
The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
(1934)
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Connor
(1934)
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
(1933)
Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
(1933)
The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
(1933)
Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
(1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
(1933)
Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
(1932)
Grand Hotel
as Doctor Otternschlag
(1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Nyland Smith
(1932)
Red-Headed Woman
as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
(1932)
Letty Lynton
as District Attorney Haney
(1932)
The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
(1932)
Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
(1932)
New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
(1932)
Unashamed
as Henry Trask
(1932)
Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
(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)
Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
(1931)
The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
(1931)
My Past
as John Thornley
(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)
Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
(1930)
Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
(1929)
Madame X
as Louis Floriot
(1929)
Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
(1929)
Wonder of Women
as Stephen Tromholt
(1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
(1928)
A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
(1928)
The Foreign Legion
as Col. Destin
(1928)
Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
(1928)
The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
(1927)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
as Menelaus
(1927)
An Affair of the Follies
as Hammersley
(1927)
Lonesome Ladies
as John Fosdick
(1927)
The Prince of Headwaiters
as Pierre
(1927)
The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
(1926)
The Blonde Saint
as Sebastian Maure
(1926)
The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
(1926)
Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
(1926)
Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
(1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
(1926)
Too Much Money
as Robert Broadley
(1925)
The Lost World
as Sir John Roxton
(1925)
What Fools Men
as Joseph Greer
(1925)
Confessions of a Queen
as The King
(1925)
The Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
(1925)
Cheaper to Marry
as Jim Knight
(1925)
The Talker
as Harry Lennox
(1925)
Fine Clothes
as Earl of Denham
(1924)
Cytherea
as Lee Randon
(1924)
Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
(1924)
Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
(1924)
The Stranger
as Keith Darrant
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
(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 Rosary
as Father Brian Kelly
(1922)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
(1922)
A Fool There Was
as John Schuyler
(1922)
Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
(1921)
The White Mouse
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
(1921)
Pilgrims of the Night
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
(1921)
Beau Revel
as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
(1921)
The Child Thou Gavest Me
as Edward Berkeley
(1921)
The Northern Trail
as Jan Ducet
(1921)
The Golden Snare
as Sergeant Philip Raine
(1921)
The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
(1921)
Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
(1920)
Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
(1920)
Milestones
as John Rhead
(1920)
Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
(1920)
(1920)
The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
(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