Lewis Stone
Acting • Born 1879-11-14 – Died 1953-09-12
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.
Filmography
166 credits
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Movie • 1932
Nyland Smith
The Lost World
Movie • 1925
Sir John Roxton
Wild Orchids
Movie • 1929
John Sterling
Inspiration
Movie • 1931
Raymond Delval
Queen Christina
Movie • 1934
Oxenstierna
Grand Hotel
Movie • 1932
Doctor Otternschlag
State of the Union
Movie • 1948
Sam Thorndyke
The Secret Six
Movie • 1931
Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
Mata Hari
Movie • 1931
Andriani
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1952
The Cardinal
A Woman of Affairs
Movie • 1928
Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Movie • 1946
Judge Hardy
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Movie • 1941
Judge Hardy
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Movie • 1941
Judge Hardy
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie • 1940
Judge Hardy
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Movie • 1939
Judge Hardy
Treasure Island
Movie • 1934
Captain Smollett
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Movie • 1938
Judge Hardy
David Copperfield
Movie • 1935
Mr. Wickfield
Madame X
Movie • 1929
Louis Floriot
The Big House
Movie • 1930
Warden James Adams
The Unknown Man
Movie • 1951
James V. Hulbrook
Suzy
Movie • 1936
Baron
China Seas
Movie • 1935
Tom Davids
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Movie • 1942
Judge Hardy
Bureau of Missing Persons
Movie • 1933
Police Captain Webb
It's a Big Country
Movie • 1951
Church Sexton
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie • 1946
Father Nolan
The Patriot
Movie • 1928
Count Pahlen
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Movie • 1953
Captain Holt
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Movie • 1944
Judge Hardy
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Carlo Boretti
Romance
Movie • 1930
Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl
The Phantom of Paris
Movie • 1931
Inspector Costaud
Talk About a Stranger
Movie • 1952
William J. Wardlaw
The Office Wife
Movie • 1930
Larry Fellowes
Red-Headed Woman
Movie • 1932
William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
Scaramouche
Movie • 1923
The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
The Bugle Sounds
Movie • 1942
Col. Jack Lawton
Plan for Destruction
Movie • 1943
Commentator
Out West with the Hardys
Movie • 1938
Judge Hardy
Judge Hardy and Son
Movie • 1939
Judge Hardy
Any Number Can Play
Movie • 1949
Ben Gavery Snelerr
Their Own Desire
Movie • 1929
Henry 'Hal' Marlett
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1936
Dr. Dakin
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie • 1929
Edward West
West Point of the Air
Movie • 1935
Gen. Carter
Judge Hardy's Children
Movie • 1938
Judge Hardy
Key to the City
Movie • 1950
Judge Silas Standish
Stars in My Crown
Movie • 1950
Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1922
Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf
The Sun Comes Up
Movie • 1949
Arthur Norton
Divorce In The Family
Movie • 1932
John Parker
The Hardys Ride High
Movie • 1939
Judge Hardy
You're Only Young Once
Movie • 1937
Judge Hardy
The Wet Parade
Movie • 1932
Roger Chilcote
Night Court
Movie • 1932
Judge William Osgood
Letty Lynton
Movie • 1932
District Attorney Haney
The Mystery of Mr. X
Movie • 1934
Police Superintendent Connor
Yellow Jack
Movie • 1938
Maj. Walter Reed
Three Godfathers
Movie • 1936
James 'Doc' Underwood
Strictly Dishonorable
Movie • 1931
Judge Dempsey
The White Sister
Movie • 1933
Prince Guido Chiaromonte
Men Must Fight
Movie • 1933
Edward Seward
The Thirteenth Chair
Movie • 1937
Inspector Marney
Stolen Heaven
Movie • 1938
Joseph Langauer
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Movie • 1935
Adam Paris
Wonder of Women
Movie • 1929
Stephen Tromholt
You Can't Buy Everything
Movie • 1934
John Burton
Passion Flower
Movie • 1930
Antonio Morado
Nomads of the North
Movie • 1920
Cpl. O'Connor
The Notorious Lady
Movie • 1927
Patrick Marlowe / John Carew
Beau Revel
Movie • 1921
Lawrence 'Beau' Revel
The Ice Follies of 1939
Movie • 1939
Douglas Tolliver Jr.
Shipmates Forever
Movie • 1935
Adm. Richard Melville
The Unguarded Hour
Movie • 1936
General Lawrence
The Son-Daughter
Movie • 1932
Dr. Dong Tong
My Past
Movie • 1931
John Thornley
Don't Turn 'em Loose
Movie • 1936
John Webster
Sworn Enemy
Movie • 1936
Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle
Bannerline
Movie • 1951
Josh
Three Wise Fools
Movie • 1946
Judge James Trumbell
Woman Wanted
Movie • 1935
District Attorney
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Movie • 1937
Lawrence Fontaine
New Morals for Old
Movie • 1932
Mr. Thomas
Unashamed
Movie • 1932
Henry Trask
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Movie • 1942
Judge Hardy
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Movie • 1927
Menelaus
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Strictly Unconventional
Movie • 1930
Clive Champion-Cheney
The World's Applause
Movie • 1923
John Elliott
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie • 1937
Jackson Douglas
Holiday Greetings 1941
Movie • 1941
Himself
Grounds for Marriage
Movie • 1951
Dr. Carleton Radwin Young
Looking Forward
Movie • 1933
Gabriel Service Sr.
Always Goodbye
Movie • 1931
John Graham
Don't Neglect Your Wife
Movie • 1921
Langdon Masters
Cytherea
Movie • 1924
Lee Randon
The Girl from Missouri
Movie • 1934
Frank Cousins
Just This Once
Movie • 1952
Judge Samuel Coulter
Scaramouche
Movie • 1952
Georges de Valmorin
Public Hero Number 1
Movie • 1935
Prison Warden
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Movie • 1939
Judge James K. Hardy
Sporting Blood
Movie • 1940
Davis Lockwood
Confessions of a Queen
Movie • 1925
The King
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
Movie • 1940
Judge Hardy
Night Into Morning
Movie • 1951
Dr. Horace Snyder
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Movie • 1939
The President
Angels in the Outfield
Movie • 1951
Arnold P. Hapgood
The Prince of Headwaiters
Movie • 1927
Pierre
Father's Son
Movie • 1931
William Emory
Lonesome Ladies
Movie • 1927
John Fosdick
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940
Movie • 1940
Himself / Narrator
Midnight Lovers
Movie • 1926
Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC
The River's End
Movie • 1920
Derwent Conniston/John Keith
The Dangerous Age
Movie • 1923
John Emerson
Outcast
Movie • 1937
Anthony Abbott
Why Men Leave Home
Movie • 1924
John Emerson
The Child Thou Gavest Me
Movie • 1921
Edward Berkeley
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
The Stranger
Movie • 1924
Keith Darrant
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Movie • 1934
Trifling Women
Movie • 1922
The Marquis Ferroni
The Chaser
Movie • 1938
Delford Prescott
Husbands and Lovers
Movie • 1924
James Livingston
Don Juan's 3 Nights
Movie • 1926
Johann Aradi
Another Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1938
Self (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage)
Some of the Best
Movie • 1944
Himself - Commentator
What Fools Men
Movie • 1925
Joseph Greer
The Girl from Montmartre
Movie • 1926
Jerome Hautrive
Old Loves and New
Movie • 1926
Gervas Carew
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Movie • 1920
Himself
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie • 1923
Garth McBride
A Fool There Was
Movie • 1922
John Schuyler
The Rosary
Movie • 1922
Father Brian Kelly
The White Mouse
Movie • 1921
Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P.
The Northern Trail
Movie • 1921
Jan Ducet
The Golden Snare
Movie • 1921
Sergeant Philip Raine
Held by the Enemy
Movie • 1920
Capt. Gordon Haine
Milestones
Movie • 1920
John Rhead
Pilgrims of the Night
Movie • 1921
Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham
The Concert
Movie • 1921
Augustus Martinot
The Havoc
Movie • 1916
Richard Craig
Inside the Lines
Movie • 1918
Captain Cavendish
Honor's Altar
Movie • 1916
Warren Woods
According to the Code
Movie • 1916
Basil Beckenridge
Man's Desire
Movie • 1919
Tom Denton
The Man of Bronze
Movie • 1918
John Adams
Freedom of the Press
Movie • 1928
Daniel Steele
The Foreign Legion
Movie • 1928
Col. Destin
The Lady Who Lied
Movie • 1925
Horace Pierpont
Cheaper to Marry
Movie • 1925
Jim Knight
Too Much Money
Movie • 1926
Robert Broadley
The Blonde Saint
Movie • 1926
Sebastian Maure
Fine Clothes
Movie • 1925
Earl of Denham
Inez from Hollywood
Movie • 1924
Stewart Cuyler
The Talker
Movie • 1925
Harry Lennox
An Affair of the Follies
Movie • 1927
Hammersley
The Bargain
Movie • 1931
Maitland White
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Movie • 1998
Judge Hardy (archive footage)
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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