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Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway, 26 September 1877– 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for being in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, Gwenn was associated with a wide range of works by modern playwrights, including Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and J. B. Priestley. After the Second World War, he lived in the United States, where he had a successful career in Hollywood and on Broadway.
Actor Arthur Chesney was his brother and actor Cecil Kellaway was their cousin.
Edmund Gwenn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Edmund Gwenn |
| Also Know | Edmund John Kellaway, Ðдмунд Гвенн |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Wandsworth, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1877-09-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1959-09-06 |
Edmund Gwenn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Trouble with Harry | Capt. Albert Wiles | 1955-10-03 | When a local man’s corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town’s residents secretly wonder if the… |
| Challenge to Lassie | John Traill | 1949-10-31 | When Lassie’s master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog’s life should be spared…. |
| Waltzes from Vienna | Johann Strauss, the Elder | 1934-03-15 | The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger…. |
| The Rocket from Calabuch | Prof. Jorge Serra Hamilton | 1956-09-28 | Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. H… |
| Hills of Home | Mr. Milton | 1948-11-25 | William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to … |
| Cash | Edmund Gilbert | 1933-10-08 | A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cas… |
| Penny Paradise | Joe Higgins | 1938-09-23 | A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he’s won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a larg… |
| Laburnum Grove | Mr. Radfern | 1936-11-16 | To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has… |
| The Bishop Misbehaves | Bishop | 1935-09-13 | On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester ask… |
| The Admiral’s Secret | Adm. Fitzporter | 1934-01-01 | A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits…. |
| Mad Men of Europe | Tom Brown | 1940-01-27 | A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion…. |
| Passing Shadows | David Lawrence | 1934-10-22 | The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man…. |
| The Greatest Gift | Bartolomé the Juggler | 1942-09-05 | Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitud… |
| The Skin Game | Hornblower | 1921-01-07 | An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapt… |
| The Real Thing at Last | Rupert K. Thunder / Macbeth | 1916-03-08 | Shakespeare parody… |
| Bewitched | Dr. Bergson | 1945-07-04 | A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality…. |
| Bonzo Goes to College | Coach Ted ‘Pop’ Drew | 1952-09-01 | When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college…. |
| The Good Companions | Jess Oakroyd | 1933-02-28 | Film musical taken from JB Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos…. |
| Mister Scoutmaster | Dr. Stone | 1953-09-02 | Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that’s why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Sco… |
| Sally and Saint Anne | Grandpa Pat Ryan | 1952-07-01 | An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman…. |
| Cheer Boys Cheer | Edward Ironside | 1939-08-01 | Shades of “Romeo and Juliet” with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love…. |
| A Yank at Eton | Headmaster Justin | 1942-09-01 | An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline…. |
| Scotland Yard | Insp. Cork | 1941-04-03 | Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni… |
| Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle | 1947-06-04 | Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy’s following his performance in the Thanksgivin… |
| The Walking Dead | Dr. Evan Beaumont | 1936-03-01 | Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge’s murder. After he’s convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence… |
| The Bigamist | Mr. Jordan | 1953-12-03 | San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. J… |
| Mister 880 | ‘Skipper’ Miller | 1950-09-29 | The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don’t know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama… |
| South Riding | Alfred Huggins | 1938-08-01 | Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity again… |
| The Doctor Takes a Wife | Lionel Sterling | 1940-04-25 | A best-selling author of women’s issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married…. |
| Dangerous Partners | Albert Richard Kingby | 1945-06-07 | A young couple’s accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring…. |
| A Woman of Distinction | J.M. Middlecott | 1950-03-16 | Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there’s no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touri… |
| Peking Express | Father Joseph Murray | 1951-08-01 | A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws…. |
| It’s a Dog’s Life | Jeremiah Edward Emmett Augustus Nolan | 1955-12-23 | A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury…. |
| Thunder in the Valley | Adam MacAdam | 1947-11-01 | The popular Alfred Ollivant novel “Bob, Son of Battle” is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in… |
| Something for the Birds | ‘Admiral’ Johnnie Adams | 1952-09-30 | A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oi… |
| Apartment for Peggy | Prof. Henry C. Barnes | 1948-09-30 | Professor Henry Barnes decides he’s lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be … |
| Frail Women | Jim Willis | 1932-05-23 | An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster…. |
| Channel Crossing | Trotter | 1933-10-14 | Money isn’t everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value sys… |
| Cheers for Miss Bishop | President Corcoran | 1941-02-21 | Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only op… |
| Lassie Come Home | Rowlie | 1943-12-01 | Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t… |
| Them! | Dr. Harold Medford | 1954-06-16 | As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists … |
| Sylvia Scarlett | Henry Scarlett | 1935-12-25 | When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with th… |
| Life with Father | Rev. Dr. Lloyd | 1947-09-13 | A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost…. |
| The Devil and Miss Jones | Hooper | 1941-04-11 | The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley’s Department Store… |
| Undercurrent | Professor Hamilton | 1946-11-11 | After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant… |
| The Skin Game | Mr. Hornblower | 1931-02-26 | An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village…. |
| For Heaven’s Sake | Arthur | 1950-12-15 | An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born…. |
| The Earl of Chicago | Munsey, the Butler | 1940-01-05 | A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley…. |
| Les Miserables | Bishop Courbet | 1952-08-14 | Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pu… |
| Of Human Bondage | Athelny | 1946-07-05 | A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help… |
| Pretty Baby | Cyrus Baxter | 1950-09-16 | A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway…. |
| I Was A Spy | Burgomaster | 1933-09-04 | During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte… |
| Java Head | Jeremy Ammidon | 1934-07-31 | The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, i… |
| Parnell | Henry Campbell | 1937-06-04 | Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea t… |
| She Went to the Races | Dr. Homer Pecke | 1945-11-04 | A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy…. |
| The Meanest Man in the World | Frederick P. Leggitt | 1943-02-12 | Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend’s advice and tr… |
| Hindle Wakes | Chris Hawthorne | 1931-01-01 | A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner’s son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play…. |
| All American Chump | Jeffrey Crane | 1936-10-16 | A country bumpkin who’s a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters…. |
| Louisa | Mr. Hammond | 1950-05-31 | Architect Ronald Reagan and wife Ruth Hussey invite his widowed mother (Spring Byington) to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady… |
| Love on Wheels | Philpotts | 1932-07-26 | A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious…. |
| Money for Nothing | Sir Henry Blossom | 1932-06-20 | As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan’s stockbroker fath… |
| Be Mine Tonight | Mayor Pategg | 1932-10-31 | An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager…. |
| Friday the Thirteenth | Wakefield | 1933-11-01 | It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a… |
| Between Two Worlds | Scrubby | 1944-05-20 | Passengers on an ocean liner can’t recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in commo… |
| Charley’s Aunt | Stephen Spettigue | 1941-08-01 | In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil–where the nuts come from…. |
| Anthony Adverse | John Bonnyfeather | 1936-08-29 | Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by… |
| The Student Prince | Prof. Juttner | 1954-06-15 | A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty…. |
| Mad Holiday | Williams | 1936-11-13 | A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder…. |
| A Yank at Oxford | Dean of Cardinal | 1938-02-18 | A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist’s sister…. |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Father Hamish MacNabb | 1944-12-15 | A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a prie… |
| Green Dolphin Street | Octavius Patourel | 1947-01-15 | Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie… |
| Foreign Correspondent | Rowley | 1940-08-16 | The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to… |
| Condemned to Death | Banting | 1932-01-21 | A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man’s death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man…. |
| One Night In Lisbon | Lord Fitzleigh | 1941-06-13 | Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex…. |
| Forever and a Day | Stubbs | 1943-01-21 | In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, … |
| Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Bennet | 1940-07-26 | Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentle… |
| Hollywood’s Children | Self (archive footage) | 1982-02-24 | A documentary about child actors in Hollywood, exploring their history from the early days of film…. |
Credit: TMDB
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