Lewis Stone
Acting
Born 1879-11-14
Died 1953-09-12
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
MGM Parade
Grand Hotel
Angels in the Outfield
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
Scaramouche
Queen Christina
Mata Hari
The Lost World
That's Entertainment, Part II
State of the Union
Passion Flower
China Seas
Stolen Heaven
The Patriot
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Mask of Fu Manchu
It's a Big Country
Complicated Women
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Just This Once
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Red-Headed Woman
Three Godfathers
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Twenty Years After
Romance
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
The Wet Parade
Small Town Girl
West Point of the Air
The Big Parade of Comedy
Outcast
Three Wise Fools
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Stars in My Crown
The Unknown Man
Judge Hardy's Children
Night Court
The Hoodlum Saint
The Big House
The Secret Six
Key to the City
A Woman of Affairs
The Son-Daughter
Bureau of Missing Persons
Letty Lynton
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Night Into Morning
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Bannerline
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy's Double Life
The Ice Follies of 1939
Any Number Can Play
From the Ends of the Earth
Talk About a Stranger
The Office Wife
You're Only Young Once
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