Edmund GWENN | Edmund Kellaway

* 26.09.1877, Wandsworth, (Greater) London, England, UK † 06.09.1959, Woodland Hills / Los Angeles, USA

Schauspieler * 1895 geht zum Theater (Rogue and Vagabond) * anfangs tourt durch England (mit Edmund Tearle's Repertory Company) und Australien (1901-04) und nach seiner Rückkehr nach London erlebt seine schönste Theaterzeit ("the happiest [years] I've ever had in the theatre") in George-Bernard-Shaw-Produktionen (Man and Superman; John Bull's Island; Major Barbara; You Never Can Tell; Captain Brassbound's Conversion; The Devil's Disciple) * 1908-15 spielt in Stücken bekannter Dramatiker damaliger Zeit (John Galsworthy; J.M. Barrie; Henrik Ibsen) * Kriegsdienst in der britischen Armee (Royal Army Service Corps) * 1916 erste Filmrolle in The Real Thing at Last - 1920/21 übernimmt Parts in zwei weiteren Stummfilmen * 1922 Debüt am Broadway in The Voice From the Minaret - in den 40ern spielt dort nochmals in vier Stücken (The Wookey, 1941/42; You Touched Me, 1945/46) * Beginn seiner Filmkarriere in Alfred Hitchcocks Drama The Skin Game * 1935 dreht seinen ersten amerikanischen Streifen (Titelheld in The Bishop Misbehaves) aber erst in den 40er-Jahren avanciert zum beliebten Charakterdarsteller des US-Kinos (Miracle on 34th Street, 1946/47; drei Lassie-Produktionen, 1942-49) * 1956 letzter Kinopart in der (in Spanien gedrehten) Komödie Calabuch * 1952-57 wirkt gelegentlich in einzelnen Episoden verschiedener Fernsehsendungen mit (Father and Son aus der Alfred Hitchcock Presents-Reihe, 1957) * seit 1939 lebt in Amerika


"I was 5 ft., 6 inches tall, always short and stocky and not a particularly handsome thing. I could never play romantic leads."

SOUND FILMS / TONFILME
# The Skin Game (Bis aufs Messer, 1930/31-GB; d: Alfred Hitchcock, B: Alma Reville; Alfred Hitchcock, K: Jack Cox, D: C.V. France: Mr. Hillcrist, Helen Haye: Mrs. Hillcrist, Jill Esmond: Jill Hillcrist, Edmund Gwenn: Mr. Hornblower) 85m-Drama (Bk von John Galsworthy) (3102)
# Hindle Wakes (1931-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: Victor Saville, Angus MacPhail, K: Max Greene, ML: W.L. Trytel, D: Belle Chrystall: Fanny Hawthorne, Sybil Thorndike: Mrs. Hawthorne, John Stuart: Alan Jeffcoate / Edmund Gwenn: Chris Hawthorne) 79m-Drama (Bk von Stanley Houghton) (3110)
# Frail Women (1931-GB; d: Maurice Elvey, B: Michael Barringer, K: Basil Emmott; Billy/William Luff, D: Mary Newcomb: Lilian Hamilton, Owen Nares: Colonel Leonard Harvey / Edmund Gwenn: Jim Willis) 72m-Drama (3201)
# Condemned to Death (1931-GB; d: Walter Forde, B: H. Fowler Mear, Bernard Merivale, Brock Williams, K: Sydney Blythe, Billy/William Luff, D: Gillian Lind: Kate Banting, Gordon Harker: Sam / Edmund Gwenn: Banting) 75m (Bk von George Goodchild) (3201)
# Money for Nothing (1931-GB; d: Monty Banks, B: Victor Kendall, Walter C. Mycroft, K: Jack Cox, D: Seymour Hicks: Jay Cheddar, Betty Stockfeld: Joan Blossom / Edmund Gwenn: Sir Henry Blossom) 72m-Liebeskomödie (08-?; 3201)
# Love on Wheels (1932-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: Robert Stevenson; Douglas Furber, K: M. Greenbaum=Max Greene, ML: Louis Levy, D: Jack Hulbert: Fred Hopkins, Gordon Harker: Briggs, Leonora Corbett: Jane Russell, Edmund Gwenn: Charles Philpotts) 87m-Musikkomödie (3207)
# Tell Me Tonight (1932; d: Anatole Litvak, B: [Irma von Cube, Albrecht Joseph]; John Orton, K: Fritz Arno Wagner, M: Mischa Spoliansky, D: Jan Kiepura: Enrico Ferraro, Sonnie Hale: Koretzky, Magda Schneider: Mathilde, Edmund Gwenn: Bürgermeister Pategg) 91m-Musikkomödie (3210) > englische Version von Das Lied einer Nacht (1932-D * Anatole Litvak)
# Early to Bed (1932; d: Ludwig Berger, B: Hans Szekely, Robert Liebmann; Robert Stevenson, John Heygate, K: Friedl Behn-Grund, M: Werner R. Heymann, D: Heather Angel: Grete, Fernand Gravey: Carl / Edmund Gwenn: Herr Krüger) 83m-Musikfilm (3307) > englische Version von Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht
# The Good Companions (1932/33-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: W.P. Lipscomb, K: Bernard Knowles, D: Jessie Matthews: Susie Dean, Edmund Gwenn: Jess Oakroyd, John Gielgud: Inigo Jollifant) 113m-Musikkomödie (Roman/Bk von J.B. Priestley, 1929 + Bk von Edward Knoblock) (3302)
# The Admiral's Secret (1932/34-GB; d: Guy Newall, B: H. Fowler Mear, K: ?, D: Edmund Gwenn: Admiral Fitzporter) 63m-Komödie (Bk von Edward Dignon & Cyril Campion) (3402)
# Cash (1933-GB; d: Zoltan Korda, B: Arthur Wimperis, Dorothy Greenhill, K: Robert G. Martin, D: Edmund Gwenn: Edmund Gilbert, Wendy Barrie: Lilian Gilbert, Robert Donat: Paul Martin) 73m-Komödie (3305)
# I Was a Spy (1933-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: W.P. Lipscomb; Ian Hay, K: Charles Van Enger, D: Madeleine Carroll: Marthe Cnockhaert, Herbert Marshall: Stephan, Conrad Veidt: Oberaertz, Edmund Gwenn: burgomaster) 89m-Kriegsdrama (Zeitungsautobiografie von Martha Cnockhaert McKenna, 1932) (3307)
# Channel Crossing (1933-GB; d: Milton Rosmer, B: Cyril Campion, W.P. Lipscomb, K: Philip Tannura, M: [Jack Beaver], D: Matheson Lang: Jacob van Eeden, Constance Cummings: Marion Slade / Edmund Gwenn: Trotter) 70m-Krimidrama (3310)
# Smithy (1933-GB; d: George King, K: Basil Emmott, D: Edmund Gwenn: John Smith, Peggy Novak: Jane) 53m-Drama (3310)
# Marooned (1933-GB; d: Leslie Hiscott, B: Michael Barringer, K: ?, D: Edmund Gwenn: Tom Roberts, Viola Lyel: Sarah Roberts) 67m-Thrillerdrama (3311)
# Friday the Thirteenth (1933-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: G.H. Moresby-White; Emlyn Williams, K: Charles Van Enger, D: Sonnie Hale: Alf / Edmund Gwenn: Norman Wakefield, Ralph Richardson: Horace Dawes) 84/9m-Episodendrama (3311)
# Waltzes from Vienna (1933-GB; d: Alfred Hitchcock, B: Guy Bolton, Alma Reville, K: Glen MacWilliams, ML: Louis Levy, D: Jessie Matthews: Therese [Resi] Ebeseder, Edmund Gwenn: Johann Strauß /Vater/) 81m-Musikkomödie (Bk von Heinz Reichert, A.M. Willner, Ernst Marischka) (3403)
# Warn London (1934-GB; d: T. Hayes Hunter, B: Charles Bennett, Billie Bristow, K: Alex Bryce, D: Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Herman Krauss, John Loder: Inspector Yorke/Barraclough, Leonora Corbett: Jill) 68m-Krimithriller (Roman von Denison Clift) (3405)
# Passing Shadows (1934-GB; d: Leslie Hiscott, B: Michael Barringer, K: Alex Bryce, D: Edmund Gwenn: David Lawrence, Barry MacKay: Jim Lawrence, Aileen Marson: Mary Willett) 67m-Drama (3405)
# Java Head (1934-GB; d: J. Walter Ruben, B: Gordon Wellesley, Martin Brown, K: Robert G. Martin, ML: Ernest Irving, D: Anna May Wong: Taou Yuen * Elizabeth Allan: Nettie Vollar, Edmund Gwenn: Jeremy Ammidon, John Loder: Gerrit Ammidon, Ralph Richardson: William Ammidon) 85m-Melodram (Roman von Joseph Hergesheimer, 1919) (3408)
# Spring in the Air (1934-GB; d: Victor Hanbury, Norman Lee, ML: Jack Beaver, D: Edmund Gwenn: Franz, Zelma O'Neal: Ila) 74m-Musikfilm (3411)
# The Bishop Misbehaves (1935-USA; d: E.A. Dupont, B: Leon Gordon, K: James Van Trees, M: Edward Ward, D: Edmund Gwenn: Bischof von Broadminster, Maureen O'Sullivan: Hester Grantham) 86m-Tragikomödie (Bk von Frederick Jackson) (07-08; 3509)
# Sylvia Scarlett (Sylvia Scarlett, 1935-USA; R: George Cukor, B: Gladys Unger & John Collier & Mortimer Offner, K: Joseph H. August, ML: Roy Webb, D: Katharine Hepburn: Sylvia Scarlett, Cary Grant: Jimmy Monkley, Brian Aherne: Michael Fane, Edmund Gwenn: Henry Scarlett) 94m-Abenteuerkomödie (Roman von Compton MacKenzie, 1918) (08-10; 3601)
# Anthony Adverse (Ein rastloses Leben, 1935/36-USA; R: Mervyn LeRoy, K: Tony Gaudio, D: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland / EG-John Bonnyfeather) 141m-Drama (Roman von Hervey Allen) (3607)
# The Walking Dead (Der wandelnde Leichnam, 1935/36-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Ewart Adamson, Peter Milne, Robert Hardy Andrews, Lillie Hayward, K: Hal Mohr, D: Boris Karloff: John Elman, Ricardo Cortez: Nolan, Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Evan Beaumont, Marguerite Churchill: Nancy) 62/78m-Horrorthriller (12-?; 3603)
# Laburnum Grove (1936-GB; d: Carol Reed, B: Anthony Kimmins; Gordon Wellesley, K: John W. Boyle, D: Edmund Gwenn: Mr. Radfern, Cedric Hardwicke: Mr. Baxley, Victoria Hopper: Elsie Radfern) 73m-Komödie (Bk von J.B. Priestley) (3605)
# All American Chump (1936-USA; d: Edwin L. Marin, B: Lawrence Kimble, K: Charles G. Clarke, M: William Axt, D: Stuart Erwin: Elmer Lamb, Robert Armstrong: "Honest" William Hogan, Betty Furness: Kitty Crane, Edmund Gwenn: Jeffrey Crane) 63/70m-Komödie (07-08; 3610)
# Mad Holiday (1936-USA; d: George B. Seitz, B: Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, K: Joseph Ruttenberg, M: William Axt, D: Edmund Lowe: Philip Trent, Elissa Landi: Peter Dean / Edmund Gwenn: Williams) 72m-Krimikomödie (nach Joseph Santley) (08-09; 3611)
# Parnell (1936/37-USA; d: John M. Stahl, B: John Van Druten & S.N. Behrman, K: Karl Freund, M: William Axt, D: Clark Gable: Charles Stewart Parnell * Myrna Loy: Katie O'Shea, Edna May Oliver: Tante Ben, Edmund Gwenn: Campbell) 115/9m-Biopicdrama (Bk von Elsie T. Schauffler) (11-04; 3706)
# South Riding (1937-GB; d: Victor Saville, B: Ian Dalrymple & Donald Bull, K: Harry Stradling, M: Richard Addinsell, D: Edna Best: Sarah Barton, Ralph Richardson: Robert Carne, Edmund Gwenn: Alfred Huggins, Ann Todd: Madge Carne / Glynis Johns: Midge Carne) 91m-Liebesdrama (Roman von Winifred Holtby, 1936) (3801)
# A Yank at Oxford (1937-GB; d: Jack Conway, B: Malcolm Stuart Boylan & Walter Ferris & George Oppenheimer, K: Harold Rosson, M: Hubert Bath, Edward Ward, D: Robert Taylor: Lee Sheridan, Lionel Barrymore: Dan Sheridan, Maureen O'Sullivan: Molly Beaumont, Vivien Leigh: Elsa Craddock, Edmund Gwenn: Dekan des Cardinal College) 105m-Komödie (09-11; 3802)
# Penny Paradise (1938-GB; d: Carol Reed, B: Thomas Thompson, W.L./Walter Meade, Thomas Browne, K: Ronald Neame, Gordon Dines, M+Lyrics: Harry Parr-Davies, Harry O'Donovan, D: Edmund Gwenn: Joe, Jimmy O'Dea: Pat, Betty Driver: Betty) 72m-Komödie (05-?; 3809)
# Cheer Boys Cheer (1939-GB; d: Walter Forde, B: Roger MacDougall, Allan MacKinnon, K: Ronald Neame, D: Nova Pilbeam: Margaret Greenleaf, Edmund Gwenn: Edward Ironside / Alexander Knox: Saunders) 85m-Komödie (3908)
# An Englishman's Home (1939-GB; d: Albert de Courville, B: Ian Hay, Edward Knoblock, Dennis Wheatley, K: Mutz Greenbaum=Max Greene, Henry Harris, M: Louis Levy, D: Edmund Gwenn: William Brown * Mary Maguire: Betty Brown, Paul von Hernreid [=Paul Henreid]: Victor Brandt) 79m-Drama (Bk von Guy du Maurier) (3910) > Außenaufnahmen: Cyril J. Knowles
# The Earl of Chicago (1939-USA; d: Richard Thorpe, B: Lesser Samuels; Charles de Grandcourt, Gene Fowler, K: Ray June, M: Werner R. Heymann, D: Robert Montgomery: Robert [Silky] Kilmount, Edward Arnold: Quentin [Doc] Ramsey, Reginald Owen: Gervase Gonwell, Edmund Gwenn: Munsey) 85m-Drama (Roman von Brock Williams, 1937) (10-11; 4001)
# The Doctor Takes a Wife (Hochzeit wider Willen, 1940-USA; d: Alexander Hall, B: George Seaton & Ken Englund, K: Sid/ney Hickox, ML: Morris Stoloff, D: Loretta Young: June Cameron, Ray Milland: Dr. Timothy Sterling, Reginald Gardiner: John R. Pierce, Gail Patrick: Marilyn Thomas, Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Lionel Sterling) 89m-Liebeskomödie (01-02; 4004)
# Pride and Prejudice (Stolz und Vorurteil, 1940-USA; R: Robert Z. Leonard, K: Karl Freund, D: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier / EG-Mr. Bennet) 117m-Melodram (Roman von Jane Austen) (01-04; 4007)
# Foreign Correspondent (Mord * Der Auslandskorrespondent, 1940-USA * Alfred Hitchcock ... Rowley) (03-05?06; 4008)
# Cheers for Miss Bishop (1940-USA; d: Tay Garnett, B: Adelaide Heilbron, Sheridan Gibney; Stephen Vincent Benet, K: Hal Mohr, M: Edward Ward, D: Martha Scott: Ella Bishop * William Gargan: Sam Peters, Edmund Gwenn: Präsident Corcoran) 94m-Drama (Roman von Bess Streeter Aldrich, 1933) (09-11; 4102)
# Scotland Yard (1940-USA; d: Norman Foster, B: Samuel G. Engel, John L. Balderston, K: Virgil Miller, ML: Emil Newman, D: Nancy Kelly: Lady Sandra Lasher, Edmund Gwenn: Inspector Cork, John Loder: Sir John Lasher) 68m-Krimidrama (Bk von Denison Clift) (11-12; 4104)
# The Devil and Miss Jones (Mary und der Millionär, 1940/41-USA; R: Sam Wood, B: Norman Krasna, K: Harry Stradling, M: Roy Webb, D: Jean Arthur: Mary Jones ° Robert Cummings: Joe O'Brien ° Charles Coburn: John P. Merrick, Edmund Gwenn: Hooper) 92m-Komödie (12-02; 4104)
# One Night in Lisbon (1940/41-USA; d: Edward H. Griffith, B: Virginia Van Upp, K: Bert Glennon, ML: Sigmund Krumgold, D: Madeleine Carroll: Leonora Perrycoste * Fred MacMurray: Dwight Houston, Patricia Morison: Gerry Houston, Billie Burke: Catherine Enfilden, John Loder: Commander Peter Walmsley, May Whitty: Florence, Edmund Gwenn: Lord Fitzleigh) 97m-Komödie (Bk von John Van Druten) (12-02; 4106)
# Charley's Aunt (1941-USA; d: Archie L. Mayo, B: George Seaton, K: J. Peverell Marley, M: Alfred Newman, D: Jack Benny: Babbs, Kay Francis: Donna Lucia, James Ellison: Jack Chesney, Anne Baxter: Amy Spettigue, Edmund Gwenn: Stephen Spettigue) 80m-Komödie (Bk von Brandon Thomas) (05-06; 4108)
# A Yank at Eton (1942-USA; d: Norman Taurog, B: George Oppenheimer & Lionel Houser & Thomas Phipps, K: Karl Freund, Charles Lawton, Jr, M: Bronislau Kaper, D: Mickey Rooney: Timothy Dennis, Edmund Gwenn: Justin, Ian Hunter: Roger Carlton, Freddie Bartholomew: Peter Carlton, Marta Linden: Winifred Dennis Carlton / Peter Lawford: Ronnie Kenvil) 89m-Komödie (03-05/+06; 4210)
# The Meanest Man in the World (1942-USA; d: Sidney Lanfield, B: George Seaton, Allan House, K: J. Peverell Marley, M: Cyril J. Mockridge, D: Jack Benny: Richard Clarke, Priscilla Lane: Janie Brown, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson: Shufro, Edmund Gwenn: Frederick P. Leggitt) 57m-Komödie (Bk von Augustin MacHugh) (07-09/+11; 4302)
# Lassie Come Home (Heimweh, 1942-USA; d: Fred M. Wilcox, B: Hugo Butler, K: Leonard Smith, M: Daniele Amfitheatrof, D: Roddy McDowall: Joe Carraclough * Donald Crisp: Sam Carraclough, May Whitty: Dally, Edmund Gwenn: Rowlie Palmer / Elizabeth Taylor: Priscilla) 88m-Tierabenteuer (Roman von Eric Knight) (09-10; 4310)
# Forever and a Day (Auf ewig und drei Tage, 1941-43-USA; d: René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, B: Charles Bennett, Alan Campbell, Norman Corwin, C.S. Forester, Peter Godfrey, Jack Hartfield, Lawrence Hazard, S.M. Herzig, James Hilton, Michael Hogan, Christopher Isherwood, Emmet Lavery, W.P. Lipscomb, Gene Lockhart, Frederick Lonsdale, Alice Duer Miller, R.C. Sheriff, Donald Ogden Stewart, John Van Druten, Claudine West, Keith Winter, K: [Robert de Grasse, Lee Garmes, Russell Metty, Nicholas Musuraca], md: [Anthony Collins], lp/iao/: Brian Aherne, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn: Stubbs, Charles Laughton: Bellamy, Ida Lupino: Jenny, Herbert Marshall: curate, Victor McLaglen, Ray Milland: Lt William Trimble, Anna Neagle: Susan Trenchard Trimble, Merle Oberon: Marjorie, Claude Rains: Ambrose Pomfret, Ruth Warrick: Lesley Trimble) 105m-Episodenfilm (05-01; 4303)
# Between Two Worlds (Zwischen zwei Welten, 1943-USA; R: Edward A. Blatt, B: Daniel Fuchs, K: Carl Guthrie, ASC M: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, D: John Garfield: Tom Prior, Paul Henreid: Henry Bergner, Sydney Greenstreet: Tim Thompson, Eleanor Parker: Ann Bergner, Edmund Gwenn: Scrubby) 112m-Drama (Bk von Sutton Vane) (10-12; 4405)
# The Keys of the Kingdom (Schlüssel zum Himmelreich, 1944-USA; d: John M. Stahl, B: Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Nunnally Johnson, K: Arthur Miller, M: Alfred Newman, D: Gregory Peck: Francis Chisholm * Thomas Mitchell: Dr. Willie Tullock * Vincent Price: Angus Mealey * Rosa Stradner: Mutter Maria Veronica, Roddy McDowall: Francis Chisholm, jung, Edmund Gwenn: Hamish MacNabb, Cedric Hardwicke) 137m-Melodram (Roman von A.J. Cronin) (02-05; 4412)
# Of Human Bondage (1944-USA; d: Edmund Goulding, B: Catherine Turney, K: J. Peverell Marley, M: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, D: Paul Henreid: Philip Carey * Eleanor Parker: Mildred Rogers * Alexis Smith: Nora Nesbitt, Edmund Gwenn: Athelny, Patric Knowles) 105m-Drama (Roman von W. Somerset Maugham) (07-10; 4607)
# Bewitched (1944-USA; d+B: Arch Oboler, K: Charles Salerno, Jr, M: Bronislau Kaper, D: Phyllis Thaxter: Joan Alris Ellis * Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Bergson) 65m-Film-Noir (11-12; 4507)
# Dangerous Partners (Gefährliche Partnerschaft, 1945-USA; R: Edward L. Cahn, B: Marion Parsonnet; Edmund L. Hartmann, K: Karl Freund, M: David Snell, D: James Craig: Jeff Caign * Signe Hasso: Carola Ballister, Edmund Gwenn: Albert Richard Kingby, Audrey Totter: Lili Roegan) 74m-Mysteryabenteuer (story von Oliver Weld Bayer=Eleanor Perry, 1943) (02-03; 4510)
# She Went to the Races (1945-USA; d: Willis Goldbeck, B: Lawrence Hazard, K: Charles Salerno, Jr, M: Nathaniel Shilkret, D: James Craig: Steve Canfield, Frances Gifford: Dr. Ann Wotters, Ava Gardner: Hilda Spotts, Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Homer Pecke) 87m-Komödie (05-06; 4511)
# Undercurrent (Der unbekannte Geliebte, 1946-USA; R: Vincente Minnelli, B: Edward Chodorov, K: Karl Freund, M: Herbert Stothart, D: Katharine Hepburn: Ann Hamilton * Robert Taylor: Alan Garroway, Robert Mitchum: Michael Garroway, Edmund Gwenn: Prof. "Dink" Hamilton, Marjorie Main: Lucy) 116m-Melodram (01-05; 4611)
# Life with Father (Unser Leben mit Vater, 1946-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Donald Ogden Stewart, K: J. Peverell Marley, William V. Skall, M: Max Steiner, D: William Powell: Clarence Day * Irene Dunne: Vinnie Day, Elizabeth Taylor: Mary Skinner, Edmund Gwenn: Reverend Dr. Lloyd) 118m-Komödie (04-08; 4708)
# Thunder in the Valley / Bob, Son of Battle (1946-USA; d: Louis King, B: Jerome Cady, K: Charles G. Clarke, M: Cyril J. Mockridge, D: Lon McCallister: David [Davie] MacAdam, Peggy Ann Garner: Maggie Moore, Edmund Gwenn: Adam MacAdam) 103m-Drama (Roman von Alfred Ollivant, 1898) (07-09; 4711)
# Green Dolphin Street (Taifun, 1946/47-USA; R: Victor Saville, B: Samson Raphaelson, K: George J. Folsey, M: Bronislau Kaper, D: Lana Turner: Marianne Patourel, Van Heflin: Timothy Haslam, Donna Reed: Marguerite Patourel / Edmund Gwenn: Octavius Patourel) 141m-Kostümdrama (Roman von Elizabeth Goudge, 1944) (09-01; 4711)
# Miracle on 34th Street (Das Wunder von Manhattan, 1946/47-USA; d+B: George Seaton, K: Charles G. Clarke, Lloyd Ahern, M: Cyril J. Mockridge, D: Maureen O'Hara: Doris Walker * John Payne: Fred Gailey, Edmund Gwenn: Kris Kringle, Gene Lockhart: Henry X. Harper, Natalie Wood: Susan Walker) 96m-Fantasykomödie (11-02/+03; 4705)
# Hills of Home (Lassies Heimat, 1947-USA; R: Fred M. Wilcox, B: William Ludwig, K: Charles Schoenbaum, M: Herbert Stothart, D: EG-Dr. William MacLure, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh) 97m-Tierdrama (09-12; 4812)
Apartment for Peggy# Apartment for Peggy (Eine Dachkammer für zwei, 1947/48-USA; R+B: George Seaton, K: Harry Jackson, M: David Raksin, D: Jeanne Crain: Peggy * William Holden: Jason * Edmund Gwenn: Professor Henry Barnes) 99m-Drama (Roman von Faith Baldwin) (12-03; 4810)
# Challenge to Lassie (Lassie in Not, 1948/49-USA; d: Richard Thorpe, B: William Ludwig, K: Charles Schoenbaum, M: Andre Previn, D: Edmund Gwenn: John Traill * Donald Crisp: "Jock" Gray * Geraldine Brooks: Susan Brown) 76m-Abenteuer/Drama (Roman von Eleanor Atkinson, 1912) (12-01; 4912)
# A Woman of Distinction (Die Männerfeindin, 1949-USA; d: Edward Buzzell, B: Charles Hoffman; Frank Tashlin, K: Joseph Walker, M: Werner R. Heymann, D: Rosalind Russell: Susan Middlecott, Ray Milland: Alec Stevenson, Edmund Gwenn: Mark Middlecott) 85m-Komödie (07-09; 5003)
# Pretty Baby (1949/50-USA; d: Bretaigne Windust, B: Everett Freeman, Harry Kurnitz, K: J. Peverell Marley, M: David Buttolph, D: Dennis Morgan: Sam Morley, Betsy Drake: Patsy Douglas, Zachary Scott: Barry Holmes, Edmund Gwenn: Cyrus Baxter) 92m-Komödie (12-02; 5009)
# Louisa (Alter schützt vor Liebe nicht, 1950-USA; d: Alexander Hall, B: Stanley Roberts, K: Maury Gertsman, M: Frank Skinner, D: Ronald Reagan: Hal Norton, Charles Coburn: Abel Burnside, Ruth Hussey: Meg Norton, Edmund Gwenn: Henry Hammond, Spring Byington: Louisa Norton, Piper Laurie: Cathy Norton) 90m-Komödie (02-03; 5005)
# Mister 880 (1950-USA; d: Edmund Goulding, B: Robert Riskin, K: Joseph LaShelle, M: Sol Kaplan, D: Burt Lancaster: Steve Buchanan * Dorothy McGuire: Ann Winslow * Edmund Gwenn: "Skipper" Miller) 90m-Komödie (04-05; 5009)
# For Heaven's Sake (1950-USA; d+B: George Seaton, K: Lloyd Ahern, M: Alfred Newman, D: Clifton Webb: Charles, Joan Bennett: Lydia Bolton, Robert Cummings: Jeff Bolton, Edmund Gwenn: Arthur, Joan Blondell: Daphne) 92m-Fantasykomödie (Bk von Harry Segall) (06-08; 5012)
# Peking Express (Peking-Expreß, 1951-USA; R: William Dieterle, B: John Meredyth Lucas; Jules Furthman, K: Charles Lang, M: Dimitri Tiomkin, D: Joseph Cotten: Michael Bachlin * Corinne Calvet * Edmund Gwenn: Pater Joseph Murray) 95m-Abenteuer (02-03; 5107)
# Les Miserables (Die Legion der Verdammten, 1951/52-USA; d: Lewis Milestone, B: Richard Murphy, K: Joseph LaShelle, M: Alex North, D: Michael Rennie: Jean Valjean * Debra Paget * Robert Newton: Javert * Edmund Gwenn: Bischof Courbet, Sylvia Sidney: Fantine, Cameron Mitchell) 105m-Drama (Roman von Victor Hugo) (12-02; 5208)
# Sally and Saint Anne (1952-USA; d: Rudolph Maté, B: James O'Hanlon & Herb Meadow, K: Irving Glassberg, M: Frank Skinner, D: Ann Blyth: Sally O'Moyne * Edmund Gwenn: Pat Ryan) 90m-Komödie (01-03; 5207)
# Bonzo Goes to College (1952-USA; d: Frederick de Cordova, B: Leo Lieberman, Jack Henley, K: Carl Guthrie, M: Frank Skinner, D: Maureen O'Sullivan: Marion Drew * Edmund Gwenn: Ted [Pop] Drew * Charles Drake: Malcolm Drew * Gigi Perreau: Betsy Drew * Gene Lockhart: Clarence B. Gateson) 80m-Komödie (03-05; 5209)
# Something for the Birds (1952-USA; d: Robert Wise, B: I.A.L. Diamond & Boris Ingster, K: Joseph LaShelle, M: Sol Kaplan, D: Victor Mature: Steve Bennett * Patricia Neal: Anne Richards * Edmund Gwenn: Johnnie Adams) 81m-Satire (05-06; 5210)
# Mister Scoutmaster (1953-USA; d: Henry Levin, B: Leonard Praskins & Barney Slater, K: Joseph LaShelle, M: Cyril J. Mockridge, D: Clifton Webb: Robert Jordan, Edmund Gwenn: Dr. Stone, George Winslow: Mike Marshall, Frances Dee: Helen Jordan) 87m-Komödie (Buch von Rice E. Cochran, 1952) (04-05; 5308)
# The Bigamist (Der Mann mit zwei Frauen, 1953-USA; R: Ida Lupino, B: Collier Young, K: George E. Diskant, M: Leith Stevens, D: Joan Fontaine: Eve Graham * Ida Lupino: Phyllis Martin * Edmond O'Brien: Harry Graham, Edmund Gwenn: Mr. Jordan) 80m-Melodram (06-07; 5312)
# Them! (Formicula, 1953-USA * Gordon Douglas ... Dr. Harold Medford) (09-11; 5406)
# The Student Prince (Alt Heidelberg, 1953/54-USA; R: Richard Thorpe, B: William Ludwig, Sonya Levien, K: Paul C. Vogel, ML: George Stoll, D: Ann Blyth: Käthie * Edmund Purdom: Prinz Karl Heinz, John Ericson: Graf von Asterburg, Louis Calhern: König von Karlsberg, Edmund Gwenn: Professor Jüttner) 107m-Musikfilm (Bühnenstück /1903/ + Roman /1904/ von Wilhelm Meyer-Förster) (12-01; 5406)
# The Trouble with Harry (Immer Ärger mit Harry, 1954-USA; R: Alfred Hitchcock, K: Robert Burks, D: EG-Käpt'n Albert Wiles, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine) 99m-Schwarze Komödie (Roman von Jack Trevor Story) (5510)
# It's a Dog's Life / [The] Bar Sinister (Ein Hundeleben, 1955-USA; d: Herman Hoffman, B: John Michael Hayes, K: Paul C. Vogel, M: Elmer Bernstein, D: Jeff Richards: Patch McGil, Jarma Lewis: Mabel Maycroft, Edmund Gwenn: Jeremiah Nolan) 88m-Tierdrama (story von Richard Harding Davis, 1903) (02-04; 5509)
# Calabuch / Calabuig (Calabuig, 1956-E/I; d: Luis García Berlanga, B: Leonardo Martin & Florentino Soria & Ennio Flaiano & Luis Garcia Berlanga, K: Francisco Sempere, M: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino; Guido Guerrini, D: Edmund Gwenn: Prof. George [Jorge] Hamilton * Valentina Cortese: Sofia * Franco Fabrizi: Langosta) 96m-Komödie (5609-I)
AWARDS
> Academy Award / Oscar (bester Nebendarsteller) für Miracle on 34th Street (1948)
> Golden Globe (bester Nebendarsteller) für Miracle on 34th Street (1948)
> Golden Globe (bester Nebendarsteller) für Mister 880 (1951)
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