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Lewis Stone

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.

Filmography 161

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

as Judge Hardy (archive footage)

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)

All the Brothers Were Valiant

as Captain Holt

The Prisoner of Zenda

as The Cardinal

as Georges de Valmorin

Talk About a Stranger

as William J. Wardlaw

as Judge Samuel Coulter

It's a Big Country

as Church Sexton

The Unknown Man

as James V. Hulbrook

Angels in the Outfield

as Arnold P. Hapgood

Night Into Morning

as Dr. Horace Snyder

Grounds for Marriage

as Dr. Carleton Radwin Young

Stars in My Crown

as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.

Key to the City

as Judge Silas Standish

Any Number Can Play

as Ben Gavery Snelerr

The Sun Comes Up

as Arthur Norton

State of the Union

as Sam Thorndyke

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Three Wise Fools

as Judge James Trumbell

The Hoodlum Saint

as Father Nolan

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

Some of the Best

as Himself - Commentator

Plan for Destruction

Andy Hardy's Double Life

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

The Bugle Sounds

as Col. Jack Lawton

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

as Davis Lockwood

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940

as Himself / Narrator

Judge Hardy and Son

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

as The President

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

From the Ends of the Earth

The Hardys Ride High

The Ice Follies of 1939

as Douglas Tolliver Jr.

Out West with the Hardys

as Delford Prescott

Love Finds Andy Hardy

as Maj. Walter Reed

as Joseph Langauer

Judge Hardy's Children

Another Romance of Celluloid

as Self (uncredited)

The Bad Man of Brimstone

as Jackson Douglas

You're Only Young Once

The Man Who Cried Wolf

as Lawrence Fontaine

The Thirteenth Chair

as Inspector Marney

as Anthony Abbott

Don't Turn 'em Loose

as John Webster

as Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle

Small Town Girl

The Unguarded Hour

as General Lawrence

Three Godfathers

as James 'Doc' Underwood

Shipmates Forever

as Adm. Richard Melville

as District Attorney

Public Hero Number 1

as Prison Warden

West Point of the Air

Vanessa: Her Love Story

David Copperfield

as Mr. Wickfield

Treasure Island

as Captain Smollett

The Girl from Missouri

as Frank Cousins

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

The Mystery of Mr. X

as Police Superintendent Connor

Queen Christina

You Can't Buy Everything

Bureau of Missing Persons

as Police Captain Webb

Looking Forward

as Gabriel Service Sr.

The White Sister

as Prince Guido Chiaromonte

as Edward Seward

The Son-Daughter

as Dr. Dong Tong

The Mask of Fu Manchu

as Nyland Smith

as Doctor Otternschlag

Divorce In The Family

Red-Headed Woman

as William 'Will' Legendre Sr.

as Judge William Osgood

New Morals for Old

as District Attorney Haney

as Roger Chilcote

Strictly Dishonorable

as Judge Dempsey

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

as Carlo Boretti

The Phantom of Paris

as Inspector Costaud

as Maitland White

as John Thornley

as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law

as William Emory

as Raymond Delval

as Antonio Morado

The Office Wife

as Larry Fellowes

as Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl

as Warden James Adams

Strictly Unconventional

as Clive Champion-Cheney

Their Own Desire

as Henry 'Hal' Marlett

as Louis Floriot

Wonder of Women

as Stephen Tromholt

The Trial of Mary Dugan

as John Sterling

A Woman of Affairs

as Dr. Hugh Trevelyan

Freedom of the Press

as Daniel Steele

as Count Pahlen

The Foreign Legion

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

The Prince of Headwaiters

Lonesome Ladies

as John Fosdick

The Notorious Lady

as Patrick Marlowe / John Carew

An Affair of the Follies

The Blonde Saint

as Sebastian Maure

Midnight Lovers

as Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC

Don Juan's 3 Nights

as Johann Aradi

Old Loves and New

as Gervas Carew

The Girl from Montmartre

as Jerome Hautrive

as Robert Broadley

as Joseph Greer

as Earl of Denham

The Lady Who Lied

as Horace Pierpont

as Harry Lennox

Confessions of a Queen

Cheaper to Marry

as Sir John Roxton

Inez from Hollywood

as Stewart Cuyler

Husbands and Lovers

as James Livingston

Why Men Leave Home

as John Emerson

as Keith Darrant

as The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr

You Can't Fool Your Wife

as Garth McBride

The Dangerous Age

as John Emerson

The World's Applause

as John Elliott

as The Marquis Ferroni

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf

A Fool There Was

as John Schuyler

as Father Brian Kelly

The White Mouse

as Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.

Pilgrims of the Night

as Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham

The Child Thou Gavest Me

as Edward Berkeley

Don't Neglect Your Wife

as Langdon Masters

The Golden Snare

as Sergeant Philip Raine

The Northern Trail

as Lawrence 'Beau' Revel

as Augustus Martinot

Held by the Enemy

as Capt. Gordon Haine

Nomads of the North

as Cpl. O'Connor

A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios

The River's End

as Derwent Conniston/John Keith

The Man of Bronze

Inside the Lines

as Captain Cavendish

According to the Code

as Basil Beckenridge

as Richard Craig