Edwin Maxwell
Acting
Biography
Edwin Maxwell was born on February 9, 1886 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Scarface (1932), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and His Girl Friday (1940). He was previously married to Betty Alden. He died on August 13, 1948 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Born: February 9, 1886
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Known For
The Impatient Maiden
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
The Shop Around the Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
The Devil and Miss Jones
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. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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.
Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
His Girl Friday
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Filmography
as Porter Grimes
as Presiding Judge
as Politician (uncredited)
as Mr. Davenport
as Oscar Hammerstein (uncredited)
as Capt. Pierre Moise
as Kirkwood
as Radio Official (uncredited)
as William Jennings Bryan
as Vice-President of Medical Society
as Businessman in Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)
as Max Kramer
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Stillwell, D.A.
as Sen. John Randolph
as Wingy Keefe
as District attorney
as P.V. Baxter
as City Councilman
as Dan Clark
as Withers
as Dr. Paxton
as 2nd Mob Leader
as John Sutter
as Captain de Jean
as Rocky Fallon
as Dr. Egelhoffer
as Oak
as Doctor
as Mercier
as Rev. Daniel Gros
as Martin Dill
as John T. Stuart (uncredited)
as Messerschmidt (uncredited)
as Kirby's Attorney (uncredited)
as Krauss
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
as First Lawyer (uncredited)
as Theatre Manager
as Mondoon
as Mr. Bullock (uncredited)
as Dave Miller
as Ira Westing - Editor
as Auctioneer
as Principal
as Vocal Coach (uncredited)
as Lawyer Kruger
as Kenyon
as Milton Beacher
as Richards
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Sid LeMaire
as Byron C. Wakefield
as Vickery
as Baxter (Uncredited)
as Gordon
as Douglas (uncredited)
as Newspaper Editor
as Mr. Brunch
as Insane Man
as Mr. Casey
as The Augur - a Pompeii Official (uncredited)
as The Augur, a Pompeii Official (uncredited)
as Lester Walsh
as Jefferson
as William King
as Joseph Kratz (uncredited)
as Tobacco Plant Manager (uncredited)
as Nitto
as First Gentleman
as Army Doctor
as Casca
as Lyman Warren
as Buddy Goldfarb (uncredited)
as Major Pope
as Morton Randall
as R.S. Sawyer (uncredited)
as Jason Osgood
as Judge
as Mr. Fitch
as Jeffries, the Theatre Manager (uncredited)
as Freedonia's Secretary of War #1 (uncredited)
as Ship Captain
as Winthrop Allen
as Martin Blake
as Big Bill Standish
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
as Gossiper aka "That Cad" (uncredited)
as Rockwell
as Mayor's Assistant
as The Man Fred Killed
as Lentz
as Louis Johnson
as Tom Rourke
as District Attorney Travers
as Laundry Company President
as The Maniac
as Worth
as W.J. Brady
as Mob Leader
as Tom Ford (uncredited)
as Dr. Vorse
as Earl Darrell
as Police Commissioner
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Marshall
as Sam Gobel
as Clark (uncredited)
as Jake Symonds (uncredited)
as Dr. Waitz
as Prison Commandant
as Detective (uncredited)
as Chief of Detectives
as The Doctor
as Chauncey Chadwick
as Prof. Von Mueller (uncredited)
as Monte
as Police Agent Boligoff
as Owner of Property
as Owner of property
as Count
as Wykoff (uncredited)
as Herr Hoffman
as Dr. Smiley
as Uncle Julian Montell
as Cyrus Stevens
as Maupeou
as J.W. Rollins
as Herr Bäumer (uncredited)
as Battista