Edward Pawley
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 16, 1901
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Known For
Angels with Dirty Faces
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Help Wanted
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Hold That Ghost
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Money to Loan
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
Mississippi
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
'G' Men
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Treasure Island
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Filmography
as Deputy Blackie
as Lance Merlin
as Jerome Banning
as Junior
as Martin (as Ed Pawley)
as High Collar (uncredited)
as Spike the Butcher
as Monte March
as Palo Pete
as Collins
as Frank Crandell
as Black Jack
as Buckhart
as Dale
as Harry
as Swade (as Ed Pawley)
as Spike Cronin
as Calumette
as Doolin
as Brace Dunlap
as Edwards
as Gunman Baker
as Chin Martin
as Jim Boylan
as Joe Fenderson
as Bill Ellis
as Corson
as Dutch (uncredited)
as The Raven
as John Rance
as Cronin
as Captain Fred Carter
as Tod Miller
as Second Detective
as Police Captain Bill Royce
as 'Dutch' McTurck
as Tony, Gangster
as 'Ice' Larson
as Danny Leggett
as Joe Patterson
as Miner
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
as Waterfront Diner Wanting Sugar (uncredited)
as Bob Taylor (Uncredited)
as Ben Letts
as Burns