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