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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.833 |
| Birthday | 1877-09-26 |
| Place of Birth | Wandsworth, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Edmund John Kellaway, Эдмунд Гвенн, |
1943
Lassie Come Home
6.6/124
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t...
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Lassie Come Home
1954
Them!
6.8/414
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists...
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Them!
1955
The Trouble with Harry
7/819
When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many of the town's residents secretly wonder if the...
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The Trouble with Harry
1935
Sylvia Scarlett
6.3/82
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with th...
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Sylvia Scarlett
1947
Miracle on 34th Street
7.4/721
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgivin...
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Miracle on 34th Street
1944
Between Two Worlds
7/33
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in commo...
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Between Two Worlds
1936
The Walking Dead
6.2/85
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The Walking Dead
1947
Life with Father
6.475/61
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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Life with Father
1945
Bewitched
5.3/20
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched
1949
Challenge to Lassie
4.8/10
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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Challenge to Lassie
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1941
Charley's Aunt
5.8/6
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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Charley's Aunt
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
7.7/55
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The Devil and Miss Jones
1936
Anthony Adverse
5.7/28
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Anthony Adverse
1940
Pride and Prejudice
6.9/139
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Pride and Prejudice
1946
Undercurrent
5.8/47
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Undercurrent
1944
The Keys of the Kingdom
7/48
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The Keys of the Kingdom
1954
The Student Prince
6.3/13
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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The Student Prince
1933
Early to Bed
0/0
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Early to Bed
1931
The Skin Game
5.295/78
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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The Skin Game
1934
Waltzes from Vienna
5.293/41
Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl g...
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Waltzes from Vienna
1953
The Bigamist
6.4/90
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The Bigamist
1952
Bonzo Goes to College
5/1
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
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Bonzo Goes to College
1950
Mister 880
7/29
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama...
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Mister 880
1950
For Heaven's Sake
6.9/7
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
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For Heaven's Sake
1933
The Good Companions
5.8/4
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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The Good Companions
1938
South Riding
6.2/5
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity again...
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South Riding
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.5/8
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1953
Mister Scoutmaster
6.5/7
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Sco...
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Mister Scoutmaster
1956
The Rocket from Calabuch
7.4/37
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. H...
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The Rocket from Calabuch
1947
Green Dolphin Street
6.1/17
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...
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Green Dolphin Street
1945
Dangerous Partners
6.3/3
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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Dangerous Partners
1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop
5.9/14
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only op...
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
1952
Sally and Saint Anne
8/2
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
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Sally and Saint Anne
1948
Hills of Home
6.7/15
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Hills of Home
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1950
A Woman of Distinction
6.2/4
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touri...
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A Woman of Distinction
1952
Les Miserables
5.4/15
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Miserables
1936
Mad Holiday
6/6
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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Mad Holiday
1946
Of Human Bondage
6/4
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help...
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Of Human Bondage
1939
Cheer Boys Cheer
5.8/5
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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Cheer Boys Cheer
1951
Peking Express
8/1
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
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Peking Express
1955
It's a Dog's Life
3/2
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
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It's a Dog's Life
1950
Pretty Baby
6/4
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Pretty Baby
1933
I Was a Spy
5.5/4
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte...
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I Was a Spy
1933
Cash
4.5/6
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cas...
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Cash
1921
The Skin Game
0/0
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapt...
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The Skin Game
1938
Penny Paradise
6.7/9
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a larg...
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Penny Paradise
1948
Apartment for Peggy
7.6/5
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be...
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Apartment for Peggy
1934
Java Head
6/4
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, i...
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Java Head
1936
Laburnum Grove
7/1
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has...
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Laburnum Grove
1916
The Real Thing at Last
0/0
Shakespeare parody
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The Real Thing at Last
1937
Parnell
4.6/7
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
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Parnell
1940
Foreign Correspondent
7/382
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...
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Foreign Correspondent
1945
She Went to the Races
5.5/4
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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She Went to the Races
1947
Thunder in the Valley
7.5/1
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in...
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Thunder in the Valley
1952
Something for the Birds
0/0
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oi...
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Something for the Birds
1939
Happy Family
0/0
Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.
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Happy Family
1942
A Yank at Eton
6.2/5
An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
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A Yank at Eton
1957
The Greer Case
0/0
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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The Greer Case
1932
Condemned to Death
0/0
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
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Condemned to Death
1943
The Meanest Man in the World
6.4/4
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tr...
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The Meanest Man in the World
1931
Hindle Wakes
0/0
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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Hindle Wakes
1932
Frail Women
4.7/3
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
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Frail Women
1938
A Yank at Oxford
6.7/10
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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A Yank at Oxford
1941
Scotland Yard
0/0
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
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Scotland Yard
1931
How He Lied to Her Husband
0/0
'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)
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How He Lied to Her Husband
1934
The Admiral's Secret
0/0
A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.
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The Admiral's Secret
1936
All American Chump
5.8/6
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
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All American Chump
1933
Channel Crossing
0/0
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value sys...
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Channel Crossing
1941
One Night In Lisbon
0/0
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
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One Night In Lisbon
1935
The Bishop Misbehaves
4/1
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester ask...
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The Bishop Misbehaves
1950
Louisa
6.1/9
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically invol...
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Louisa
1935
Father and Son
0/0
A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.
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Father and Son
1932
Love on Wheels
0/0
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Love on Wheels
1940
An Englishman's Home
0/0
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
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An Englishman's Home
1932
Money for Nothing
0/0
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker fath...
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Money for Nothing
1932
Tell Me Tonight
0/0
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
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Tell Me Tonight
1934
Passing Shadows
0/0
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
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Passing Shadows
1942
The Greatest Gift
7/1
Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitud...
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The Greatest Gift
1982
Hollywood’s Children
0/0
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Hollywood’s Children
1933
Friday the Thirteenth
6/9
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a...
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