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)
Talk About a Stranger
as William J. Wardlaw
(1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as The Cardinal
(1952)
Just This Once
as Judge Samuel Coulter
(1951)
Grounds for Marriage
as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
(1951)
Angels in the Outfield
as Arnold P. Hapgood
(1951)
Night Into Morning
as Dr. Horace Snyder
(1951)
It's a Big Country
as Church Sexton
(1951)
The Unknown Man
as Judge James V. Hulbrook
(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)
The Sun Comes Up
as Arthur Norton
(1949)
Any Number Can Play
as Ben Gavery Snelerr
(1948)
State of the Union
as Sam Thorndyke
(1946)
The Hoodlum Saint
as Father Nolan
(1946)
Three Wise Fools
as Judge James Trumbell
(1946)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1944)
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1944)
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Judge Hardy
(1944)
Some of the Best
as Himself - Commentator
(1943)
Plan for Destruction
as Commentator
(1942)
The Bugle Sounds
as Col. Jack Lawton
(1942)
Andy Hardy's Double Life
as Judge Hardy
(1942)
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1941)
Holiday Greetings 1941
as Himself
(1941)
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Judge Hardy
(1940)
Sporting Blood
as Davis Lockwood
(1940)
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Judge Hardy
(1940)
(1940)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
as Himself / Narrator
(1939)
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as The President
(1939)
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Douglas Tolliver Jr.
(1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
The Hardys Ride High
as Judge Hardy
(1939)
Judge Hardy and Son
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)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Maj. Walter Reed
(1938)
The Chaser
as Delford Prescott
(1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Out West with the Hardys
as Judge Hardy
(1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Joseph Langauer
(1937)
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Lawrence Fontaine
(1937)
Outcast
as Anthony Abbott
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Jackson Douglas
(1937)
You're Only Young Once
as Judge Hardy
(1937)
The Thirteenth Chair
as Inspector Marney
(1936)
Three Godfathers
as James 'Doc' Underwood
(1936)
Sworn Enemy
as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
(1936)
The Unguarded Hour
as General Lawrence
(1936)
Suzy
as Baron
(1936)
Small Town Girl
as Dr. Dakin
(1936)
Don't Turn 'em Loose
as John Webster
(1935)
China Seas
as Tom Davids
(1935)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Adam Paris
(1935)
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Warden
(1935)
West Point of the Air
as Gen. Carter
(1935)
David Copperfield
as Mr. Wickfield
(1935)
Woman Wanted
as District Attorney
(1935)
Shipmates Forever
as Adm. Richard Melville
(1934)
The Mystery of Mr. X
as Connor
(1934)
(1934)
The Girl from Missouri
as Frank Cousins
(1934)
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
(1934)
You Can't Buy Everything
as John Burton
(1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Police Captain Webb
(1933)
Queen Christina
as Oxenstierna
(1933)
Looking Forward
as Gabriel Service Sr.
(1933)
The White Sister
as Prince Guido Chiaromonte
(1933)
Men Must Fight
as Edward Seward
(1932)
Night Court
as Judge William Osgood
(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)
Grand Hotel
as Doctor Otternschlag
(1932)
Unashamed
as Henry Trask
(1932)
The Wet Parade
as Roger Chilcote
(1932)
New Morals for Old
as Mr. Thomas
(1932)
Divorce In The Family
as John Parker
(1932)
The Son-Daughter
as Dr. Dong Tong
(1931)
The Bargain
as Maitland White
(1931)
Always Goodbye
as John Graham
(1931)
Father's Son
as William Emory
(1931)
Inspiration
as Raymond Delval
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Andriani
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Carlo Boretti
(1931)
The Phantom of Paris
as Inspector Costaud
(1931)
Strictly Dishonorable
as Judge Dempsey
(1931)
The Secret Six
as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
(1931)
My Past
as John Thornley
(1930)
The Big House
as Warden James Adams
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Clive Champion-Cheney
(1930)
Romance
as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
(1930)
Passion Flower
as Antonio Morado
(1930)
The Office Wife
as Larry Fellowes
(1929)
Wonder of Women
as Stephen Tromholt
(1929)
Their Own Desire
as Henry 'Hal' Marlett
(1929)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Edward West
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as John Sterling
(1929)
Madame X
as Louis Floriot
(1928)
A Woman of Affairs
as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
(1928)
Freedom of the Press
as Daniel Steele
(1928)
The Patriot
as Count Pahlen
(1928)
The Foreign Legion
as Col. Destin
(1927)
Lonesome Ladies
as John Fosdick
(1927)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
as Menelaus
(1927)
The Notorious Lady
as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
(1927)
The Prince of Headwaiters
as Pierre
(1927)
An Affair of the Follies
as Hammersley
(1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Johann Aradi
(1926)
Midnight Lovers
as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
(1926)
The Girl from Montmartre
as Jerome Hautrive
(1926)
Old Loves and New
as Gervas Carew
(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 Lady Who Lied
as Horace Pierpont
(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
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Stewart Cuyler
(1924)
Husbands and Lovers
as James Livingston
(1924)
Cytherea
as Lee Randon
(1924)
Why Men Leave Home
as John Emerson
(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)
A Fool There Was
as John Schuyler
(1922)
Trifling Women
as The Marquis Ferroni
(1922)
The Rosary
as Father Brian Kelly
(1922)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
(1921)
Pilgrims of the Night
as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
(1921)
Don't Neglect Your Wife
as Langdon Masters
(1921)
The Concert
as Augustus Martinot
(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 White Mouse
as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
(1920)
The River's End
as Derwent Conniston/John Keith
(1920)
Held by the Enemy
as Capt. Gordon Haine
(1920)
Nomads of the North
as Cpl. O'Connor
(1920)
(1920)
Milestones
as John Rhead
(1919)
Man's Desire
as Tom Denton
(1918)
The Man of Bronze
as John Adams
(1918)
Inside the Lines
as Captain Cavendish
(1916)
The Havoc
as Richard Craig
(1916)
Honor's Altar
as Warren Woods
(1916)
According to the Code
as Basil Beckenridge
Crew
(1919)
Man's Desire
Writer