Edward Arnold
Acting
Biography
Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider; February 17, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.
Born: February 17, 1890
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
The Hidden Eye
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Big City
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Cardinal Richelieu
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Oliver Tubbs
as Ambassador William Fisk
as Paul Atlas
as Jock Fathian
as Lieutenant Shipley
as Juror #10
as The Mayor of New York
as J.R. Compton
as Penrod Biddel
as John Prescott / Mayor Underwood
as The Range (voice)
as Sam Harper
as Senator Wilkins
as Adm. Homer Thorndyke
as Pawnee Bill
as Martin Creavy
as Self
as Judge Wilkins
as Mahoney
as Joe Lorgan
as Sen. James McKinley
as Congressman Arthur Malcolm
as Juror #10
as Self
as Andrew J. Linnett
as Judge Martin O. Abercrombie
as Robert Nelson
as Self
as David 'Dave' Lash
as Judge Harry Wilkins
as Mr. Charles G. Bledsoe
as Mike Glenson
as Self
as Theodore Findley
as Charles Conway
as Hobart Canford Stiles
as Martin Edley
as Capt. Duncan Maclain
as Lawyer (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")
as Lt. Lorrgan
as Amory Stilham
as The Grand Vizier
as Charles Conway
as T.J. Todd
as Burton V. Lyons
as Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
as Elliot Fulton
as The Devil
as John Benson Farrell
as Judson M. 'J.M.' / 'Judsy' Blair
as Merrill Lambert
as Daniel Webster
as T.T. Ralston
as James 'Jim' Cork
as D.B. Norton
as Martin 'Stuff' Nelson
as Diamond Jim Brady
as Robert Cain Sr.
as Quentin 'Doc' Ramsey
as Vincent Cushing
as Jim Taylor
as Sir John Arlington
as Diamond Jim Brady (edited from 'Diamond Jim')
as Jim Knox
as Achille Weber
as Anthony P. Kirby
as Jim Cain
as Ira Collins
as Jim Fisk
as J.B. Ball
as John Meade
as Barney Glasgow
as Nero Wolfe
as Johan (John) Sutter
as Inspector Porfiry
as Danny Harrison
as Diamond Jim
as Paul Madvig
as Louis XIII
as Mr. 'Feydie' Feydak
as Secretary of War Wardell
as Ray Phillips
as Vincent Shelton
as Det. Lt. 'Mac' MacCarthy
as Richard M. Gresham
as Brennan
as Frank Rodie
as Schultz
as Emperor Valerius
as Politician (uncredited)
as Big Bill Barton
as Orson Bitzer
as Commissioner Forster
as Sen. Brander
as Inspector Ennis
as Achmed Pasha
as Father Saracinesca
as Dillon
as Doctor Remezov
as Jig Skelli
as Ace
as Duke Morgan
as (uncredited)
as Hampden Scarborough
as Mr. Frewen
as Tom Wentworth
as Seymour Purchwell
as John Standing
as Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
as Sidney Parker