Lionel Belmore

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lionel Belmore 12 May 1867 Wimbledon Surrey England 30 January 1953 Woodland Hills Los Angeles California was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century Onstage Belmore appeared with Wilson Barrett Sir Henry Irving William Faversham Lily Langtry and other famous actors He entered in films from 1911 In total he had some 200 titles to his film credit He was notable as the huffypuffy Herr Vogel the Burgomaster in Frankenstein 1931 Belmore played bit parts in several 1930s film classics Unusually he was a director before he became a prolific actor He directed from 1914 to 1920 only acting in a limited number of films until concentrating as an actor from then on He was the brother of the actress Daisy Belmore Mrs Samuel Waxman 18741954 and the actor Paul Belmore He was married to stage actress Emmeline Florence Carder and they had two daughters Their daughter Violet had decided to follow in her fathers footsteps and go into acting Description above from the Wikipedia article Lionel Belmore licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia