
Lewis Stone
Born November 14, 1879 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Grand Hotel

Treasure Island

Mata Hari

China Seas

State of the Union

David Copperfield

That's Entertainment, Part II

Stars in My Crown

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Prisoner of Zenda

Stolen Heaven

Three Godfathers

The Big Parade of Comedy

Passion Flower

The Lost World

Bannerline

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

It's a Big Country

Twenty Years After

Key to the City

Any Number Can Play

All the Brothers Were Valiant

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Out West with the Hardys

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

The White Sister

The Patriot

The Wet Parade

The Son-Daughter

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Public Hero Number 1

Red-Headed Woman

A Fool There Was

Bureau of Missing Persons

The Hardys Ride High

Outcast

Sworn Enemy

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Talk About a Stranger

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Small Town Girl

Inspiration

Romance

You're Only Young Once

Love Finds Andy Hardy

The Secret Six

Old Loves and New

The Sun Comes Up

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

From the Ends of the Earth

The Ice Follies of 1939

Three Wise Fools

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

The Mystery of Mr. X

Judge Hardy's Children

Another Romance of Celluloid

The Phantom of Paris

Night Into Morning

The Girl from Missouri

Complicated Women

The Chaser

A Woman of Affairs

Suzy

West Point of the Air

Judge Hardy and Son

Scaramouche

The Big House

New Morals for Old

Woman Wanted

The Man Who Cried Wolf

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Letty Lynton

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Just This Once

Night Court

The Office Wife

You Can't Buy Everything

The Bad Man of Brimstone

The River's End

The Unknown Man

The Lady Who Lied

Madame X

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

Wild Orchids

Don't Turn 'em Loose

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Confessions of a Queen

Pilgrims of the Night

The White Mouse

Yellow Jack

The Stranger

Why Men Leave Home

The Hoodlum Saint

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

The Man of Bronze

Their Own Desire

Looking Forward

Strictly Unconventional

Strictly Dishonorable

The Prisoner of Zenda

Men Must Fight

The World's Applause

Held by the Enemy

Shipmates Forever

The Prince of Headwaiters

The Unguarded Hour

Cytherea

The Blonde Saint

Beau Revel

The Thirteenth Chair

Sporting Blood

Grounds for Marriage

Wonder of Women

Don't Neglect Your Wife

Freedom of the Press

The Notorious Lady

Unashamed

Don Juan's 3 Nights

The Girl from Montmartre

Nomads of the North

Inside the Lines

Inez from Hollywood

My Past

The Golden Snare

The Rosary

Husbands and Lovers

What Fools Men

Cheaper to Marry

Father's Son

The Northern Trail

Some of the Best

Fine Clothes

Divorce In The Family

Milestones

The Concert

The Talker

Man's Desire

The Bugle Sounds

Plan for Destruction

You Can't Fool Your Wife

An Affair of the Follies

The Havoc

The Dangerous Age

Too Much Money

Trifling Women

The Bargain

A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios

Midnight Lovers

Lonesome Ladies

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

According to the Code

Always Goodbye

The Foreign Legion




