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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.
Movie | Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 |
Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Baron in 'Suzy' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963-07-01 | |
Movie | All the Brothers Were Valiant | Captain Holt | 1953-11-13 |
Movie | Talk About a Stranger | William J. Wardlaw | 1952-04-18 |
Movie | Just This Once | Judge Samuel Coulter | 1952-02-27 |
Movie | Scaramouche | Georges de Valmorin | 1952-05-08 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Zenda | The Cardinal | 1952-11-04 |
Movie | Night Into Morning | Dr. Horace Snyder | 1951-06-08 |
Movie | Grounds for Marriage | Dr. Carleton Radwin Young | 1951-01-12 |
Movie | Bannerline | Josh | 1951-10-12 |
Movie | Angels in the Outfield | Arnold P. Hapgood | 1951-10-19 |
Movie | It's a Big Country | Church Sexton | 1951-11-20 |
Movie | The Unknown Man | Judge James V. Hulbrook | 1951-11-09 |
Movie | Key to the City | Judge Silas Standish | 1950-02-02 |
Movie | Stars in My Crown | Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr. | 1950-05-11 |
Movie | The Sun Comes Up | Arthur Norton | 1949-05-12 |
Movie | Any Number Can Play | Ben Gavery Snelerr | 1949-07-15 |
Movie | State of the Union | Sam Thorndyke | 1948-04-30 |
Movie | The Hoodlum Saint | Father Nolan | 1946-04-04 |
Movie | Three Wise Fools | Judge James Trumbell | 1946-09-26 |
Movie | Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy | 1946-12-25 |
Movie | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944-01-01 |
Movie | Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble | Judge Hardy | 1944-05-04 |
Movie | Plan for Destruction | Commentator | 1943-04-22 |
Movie | The Bugle Sounds | Col. Jack Lawton | 1942-01-30 |
Movie | Andy Hardy's Double Life | Judge Hardy | 1942-12-01 |
Movie | The Courtship of Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy | 1942-03-03 |
Movie | Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | Judge Hardy | 1941-02-21 |
Movie | Holiday Greetings 1941 | Himself | 1941-12-25 |
Movie | Life Begins for Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade Hits for 1940 | Himself / Narrator | 1940-01-01 |
Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
Movie | Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things | Judge Hardy | 1940-01-01 |
Movie | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | Judge Hardy | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | Sporting Blood | Davis Lockwood | 1940-07-11 |
Movie | The Ice Follies of 1939 | Douglas Tolliver Jr. | 1939-03-10 |
Movie | The Hardys Ride High | Judge Hardy | 1939-04-21 |
Movie | Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) | Judge James K. Hardy | 1939-01-09 |
Movie | Judge Hardy and Son | Judge Hardy | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939-05-28 |
Movie | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | The President | 1939-12-01 |
Movie | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Judge Hardy | 1939-07-21 |
Movie | Stolen Heaven | Joseph Langauer | 1938-05-11 |
Movie | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | Yellow Jack | Maj. Walter Reed | 1938-05-19 |
Movie | Judge Hardy's Children | Judge Hardy | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | Love Finds Andy Hardy | Judge Hardy | 1938-07-22 |
Movie | The Chaser | Delford Prescott | 1938-07-29 |
Movie | Out West with the Hardys | Judge Hardy | 1938-11-25 |
Movie | The Thirteenth Chair | Inspector Marney | 1937-05-07 |
Movie | Outcast | Anthony Abbott | 1937-02-05 |
Movie | The Man Who Cried Wolf | Lawrence Fontaine | 1937-08-29 |
Movie | You're Only Young Once | Judge Hardy | 1937-12-10 |
Movie | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Jackson Douglas | 1937-12-31 |
Movie | Small Town Girl | Dr. Dakin | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Three Godfathers | James 'Doc' Underwood | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | The Unguarded Hour | General Lawrence | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Suzy | Baron | 1936-07-20 |
Movie | Sworn Enemy | Doctor Simon 'Doc' Gattle | 1936-09-11 |
Movie | Don't Turn 'em Loose | John Webster | 1936-09-18 |
Movie | West Point of the Air | Gen. Carter | 1935-03-23 |
Movie | David Copperfield | Mr. Wickfield | 1935-01-18 |
Movie | Public Hero Number 1 | Prison Warden | 1935-05-31 |
Movie | Vanessa: Her Love Story | Adam Paris | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Woman Wanted | District Attorney | 1935-08-02 |
Movie | Shipmates Forever | Adm. Richard Melville | 1935-10-12 |
Movie | China Seas | Tom Davids | 1935-08-09 |
Movie | You Can't Buy Everything | John Burton | 1934-01-26 |
Movie | The Mystery of Mr. X | Connor | 1934-02-23 |
Movie | The Girl from Missouri | Frank Cousins | 1934-08-03 |
Movie | Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | 1934-03-02 | |
Movie | Treasure Island | Captain Smollett | 1934-08-17 |
Movie | Men Must Fight | Edward Seward | 1933-02-17 |
Movie | The White Sister | Prince Guido Chiaromonte | 1933-03-17 |
Movie | Queen Christina | Oxenstierna | 1933-12-26 |
Movie | Bureau of Missing Persons | Police Captain Webb | 1933-09-16 |
Movie | Looking Forward | Gabriel Service Sr. | 1933-04-28 |
Movie | Grand Hotel | Doctor Otternschlag | 1932-05-25 |
Movie | Letty Lynton | District Attorney Haney | 1932-04-30 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Roger Chilcote | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Night Court | Judge William Osgood | 1932-06-04 |
Movie | New Morals for Old | Mr. Thomas | 1932-06-04 |
Movie | The Son-Daughter | Dr. Dong Tong | 1932-12-23 |
Movie | Divorce In The Family | John Parker | 1932-08-27 |
Movie | The Mask of Fu Manchu | Nyland Smith | 1932-11-05 |
Movie | Unashamed | Henry Trask | 1932-07-02 |
Movie | Red-Headed Woman | William 'Will' Legendre Sr. | 1932-06-25 |
Movie | My Past | John Thornley | 1931-05-03 |
Movie | Father's Son | William Emory | 1931-03-07 |
Movie | Inspiration | Raymond Delval | 1931-01-31 |
Movie | Always Goodbye | John Graham | 1931-05-24 |
Movie | The Secret Six | Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | The Phantom of Paris | Inspector Costaud | 1931-09-12 |
Movie | Strictly Dishonorable | Judge Dempsey | 1931-12-01 |
Movie | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Carlo Boretti | 1931-10-23 |
Movie | Mata Hari | Andriani | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | Strictly Unconventional | Clive Champion-Cheney | 1930-05-03 |
Movie | The Big House | Warden James Adams | 1930-06-14 |
Movie | The Office Wife | Larry Fellowes | 1930-08-23 |
Movie | Passion Flower | Antonio Morado | 1930-12-06 |
Movie | Romance | Cornelius 'Conny' Van Tuyl | 1930-08-20 |
Movie | Wild Orchids | John Sterling | 1929-02-23 |
Movie | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Edward West | 1929-06-08 |
Movie | Their Own Desire | Henry 'Hal' Marlett | 1929-12-27 |
Movie | Wonder of Women | Stephen Trombolt | 1929-07-13 |
Movie | Madame X | Louis Floriot | 1929-08-17 |
Movie | The Patriot | Count Pahlen | 1928-09-01 |
Movie | The Foreign Legion | Col. Destin | 1928-06-23 |
Movie | Freedom of the Press | Daniel Steele | 1928-10-28 |
Movie | A Woman of Affairs | Dr. Hugh Trevelyan | 1928-12-15 |
Movie | Lonesome Ladies | John Fosdick | 1927-07-03 |
Movie | The Notorious Lady | Patrick Marlowe / John Carew | 1927-03-26 |
Movie | The Prince of Headwaiters | Pierre | 1927-07-09 |
Movie | The Private Life of Helen of Troy | Menelaus | 1927-12-09 |
Movie | Too Much Money | Robert Broadley | 1926-01-03 |
Movie | Don Juan's 3 Nights | 1926-09-04 | |
Movie | Midnight Lovers | Maj. William Ridgewell, RFC | 1926-10-25 |
Movie | The Lost World | Sir John Roxton | 1925-02-02 |
Movie | The Talker | Harry Lennox | 1925-05-24 |
Movie | Confessions of a Queen | The King | 1925-03-30 |
Movie | What Fools Men | Joseph Greer | 1925-09-13 |
Movie | Fine Clothes | Earl of Denham | 1925-08-09 |
Movie | The Stranger | Keith Darrant | 1924-02-04 |
Movie | Why Men Leave Home | John Emerson | 1924-03-03 |
Movie | Husbands and Lovers | James Livingston | 1924-11-02 |
Movie | Cytherea | Lee Randon | 1924-05-04 |
Movie | Inez from Hollywood | Stewart Cuyler | 1924-12-14 |
Movie | The Dangerous Age | John Emerson | 1923-02-04 |
Movie | The World's Applause | John Elliott | 1923-01-29 |
Movie | You Can't Fool Your Wife | Garth McBride | 1923-04-29 |
Movie | Scaramouche | The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr | 1923-09-15 |
Movie | A Fool There Was | John Schuyler | 1922-06-18 |
Movie | The Rosary | Father Brian Kelly | 1922-01-16 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Zenda | Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf | 1922-09-11 |
Movie | Trifling Women | The Marquis Ferroni | 1922-11-06 |
Movie | The Northern Trail | Jan Ducet | 1921-07-03 |
Movie | Beau Revel | Lawrence 'Beau' Revel | 1921-03-19 |
Movie | Don't Neglect Your Wife | Langdon Masters | 1921-07-31 |
Movie | The Child Thou Gavest Me | Edward Berkeley | 1921-08-20 |
Movie | The White Mouse | Sgt. Blake, R.C.M.P. | 1921-11-06 |
Movie | Pilgrims of the Night | Philip Champion / Lord Ellingham | 1921-09-26 |
Movie | The River's End | Derwent Conniston/John Keith | 1920-02-22 |
Movie | A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios | Himself | 1920-08-15 |
Movie | Milestones | John Rhead | 1920-09-09 |
Movie | Nomads of the North | Cpl. O'Connor | 1920-09-25 |
Movie | Man's Desire | Tom Denton | 1919-07-20 |
Movie | Inside the Lines | Captain Cavendish | 1918-08-26 |
Movie | Honor's Altar | Warren Woods | 1916-02-14 |