Private Life
He married four times:
- Phyllis Ralph in 1913 and divorced in 1919. In 1941 their son, John Arthur Atwill (born 1914), was killed in action aged 26.
- American actress Elsie Mackay in 1919. (One source claims he had a son, John, with her.) In 1925 Atwill had detectives raid an apartment on Manhattan's 68th Street, where Mackay was found with actor Max Montesole. A divorce was finally granted in March 1928.
- Louise Cromwell Brooks in 1930 and divorced in 1943. She had previously been married to Douglas MacArthur.
- Mary Paula Shilstone in 1944 to his death in 1946. She gave birth to his only surviving child, Lionel Anthony Atwill, now a retired writer.
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