Lionel Belmore

Lionel Belmore
Belmore in 1923
Born	(1867-05-12)12 May 1867 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
Died	30 January 1953(1953-01-30) (aged 85) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
Burial place	Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1911–1945
Spouse	Emmeline Florence Carder
Children	2

Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867 – 30 January 1953) was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century.

Life and career[edit]

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 huffy-puffy 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) and the actors Herbert Belmore and Paul Belmore. He was the brother-in-law of actress Bertha Belmore. He was married to stage actress Emmeline Florence Carder and they had two daughters. Their daughter Violet had decided to follow in her father's footsteps and go into acting.^[1]

He is interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lionel Belmore.

• Lionel Belmore at IMDb
• Lionel Belmore at the Internet Broadway Database