Edmund Gwenn
Born: 1877-09-26 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Died: 1959-09-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2021
- Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies as Self - (archive footage)
1982
- Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
1957
- The Greer Case as Jack Baldwin
1956
- The Rocket from Calabuch as Prof. Jorge Serra Hamilton
1955
- Matinee Theater
- The Millionaire as Walter Clinton Carter
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Joe Saunders
- MGM Parade as Self
- The Trouble with Harry as Captain Wiles
- It's a Dog's Life as Jeremiah Edward Emmett Augustus Nolan
1954
- Them! as Dr. Harold Medford
- The Student Prince as Prof. Juttner
1953
- The Bigamist as Mr. Jordan
- Mister Scoutmaster as Dr. Stone
1952
- Les Miserables as Bishop Courbet
- Sally and Saint Anne as Grandpa Pat Ryan
- Bonzo Goes to College as Coach Ted 'Pop' Drew
- Something for the Birds as 'Admiral' Johnnie Adams
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Self - Narrator
- Peking Express as Father Joseph Murray
1950
- Pretty Baby as Cyrus Baxter
- Mister 880 as William "Skipper" Miller
- A Woman of Distinction as J.D. Middlecott
- For Heaven's Sake as Arthur
- Louisa as Mr. Hammond
1949
- Challenge to Lassie as John Traill
1948
- Apartment for Peggy as Prof. Henry C. Barnes
- Hills of Home as Mr. Milton
1947
- Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle
- Life with Father as Rev. Dr. Lloyd
- Green Dolphin Street as Octavius Patourel
- Thunder in the Valley as Adam MacAdam
1946
- Undercurrent as Professor Hamilton
- Of Human Bondage as Athelny
1945
- Bewitched as Dr. Bergson
- Dangerous Partners as Albert Richard Kingby
- She Went to the Races as Dr. Homer Pecke
1944
- The Keys of the Kingdom as Fr. Hamish MacNabb
- Between Two Worlds as Scrubby
1943
- Lassie Come Home as Rowlie Palmer
- Forever and a Day as Stubbs
- The Meanest Man in the World as Frederick P. Leggitt
1942
- The Greatest Gift as Bartolomé the Juggler
- A Yank at Eton as Headmaster Justin
1941
- The Devil and Miss Jones as Hooper
- Scotland Yard as Insp. Cork
- One Night In Lisbon as Lord Fitzleigh
- Cheers for Miss Bishop as President Corcoran
- Charley's Aunt as Stephen Spettigue
1940
- Pride and Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
- Foreign Correspondent as Rowley
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Dr. Lionel Sterling
- The Earl of Chicago as Munsey, the Butler
- An Englishman's Home as Tom Brown
1939
- Cheer Boys Cheer as Edward Ironside
- Happy Family as Dad
1938
- A Yank at Oxford as Dean of Cardinal
- Penny Paradise as Joe Higgins
- South Riding as Alfred Huggins
1937
- Parnell as Henry Campbell
1936
- Laburnum Grove as Mr. Radfern
- The Walking Dead as Dr. Evan Beaumont
- Anthony Adverse as John Bonnyfeather
- Mad Holiday as Williams
- All American Chump as Jeffrey Crane
1935
- Sylvia Scarlett as Henry Scarlett
- The Bishop Misbehaves as Bishop
- Father and Son as John Bolton
- Spring in the Air as Franz
1934
- Passing Shadows as David Lawrence
- Waltzes from Vienna as Johann Strauss, the Elder
- Java Head as Jeremy Ammidon
- The Admiral's Secret as Adm. Fitzporter
1933
- Cash as Edmund Gilbert
- I Was a Spy as Burgomaster
- The Good Companions as Jess Oakroyd
- Friday the Thirteenth as Wakefield
- Channel Crossing as Trotter
- Early to Bed as Kruger
1932
- Love on Wheels as Philpotts
- Condemned to Death as Banting
- Frail Women as Jim Willis
- Tell Me Tonight as Mayor Pategg
- Money for Nothing as Sir Henry Blossom
1931
- Hindle Wakes as Chris Hawthorne
- The Skin Game as Mr. Hornblower
- How He Lied to Her Husband as Her Husband (Teddy Bompas)
1921
- The Skin Game as Hornblower
1916
- The Real Thing at Last as Rupert K. Thunder / Macbeth