Actor
Edmund Gwenn
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 b ...

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