Edmund Gwenn
Gender: Male
Born: 26th September 1877
Died: 6th September 1959
Nationality: United Kingdom
Movies: Lassie Come Home, Miracle on 34th Street, The Skin Game, The Trouble with Harry, Them!, Waltzes from Vienna, Bonzo Goes to College, The Walking Dead, Sylvia Scarlett, A Yank at Oxford, Peking Express, Les Misérables, The Student Prince, Scotland Yard, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Challenge to Lassie, Pride and Prejudice, Calabuch, Parnell, Hills of Home, Green Dolphin Street, The Keys of the Kingdom, Apartment for Peggy, The Real Thing at Last, Of Human Bondage, The Bigamist, Between Two Worlds, The Devil and Miss Jones, For Heaven's Sake, South Riding, Charley's Aunt, Foreign Correspondent, Anthony Adverse, Undercurrent, Penny Paradise, If I Were Rich, Life with father, Channel Crossing, Money for Nothing, Love on Wheels, The Admiral's Secret, Bewitched, Pretty Baby, Cash, Laburnum Grove, The Bishop Misbehaves, Dangerous Partners, Mad Holiday, She Went to the Races, It's a Dog's Life, Cheer Boys Cheer
Edmund Gwenn (26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English theatre and film actor.
Born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London and educated at St. Olave's School and later at King's College London, Gwenn began his acting career in the theatre in 1895. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays. Gwenn's career was interrupted by his military service during World War I; however, after the war, he began appearing in films in London. (Cecil Kellaway was his cousin and Arthur Chesney was his brother.)
Gwenn appeared in more than eighty films during his career, including the Greer Garson/Laurence Olivier version of Pride and Prejudice (1940), Cheers for Miss Bishop, Of Human Bondage, and The Keys of the Kingdom. George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett (1935) marked his first appearance in a Hollywood film, as Katharine Hepburn's father; - his final British film, as a capitalist trying to take over a family brewery in Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) is credited with being the first authentic Ealing comedy. He settled in Hollywood in 1940 and became part of its British colony.
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