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Edward Arnold

Known for: Acting

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider; February 17, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.

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Command Decision 1948Movie as Congressman Arthur Malcolm
Duck Soup 1933Movie as Politician (uncredited)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982Movie Google Play Movies as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Ziegfeld Follies 1945Movie as Lawyer (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")
Living It Up 1954Movie as The Mayor of New York
I'm No Angel 1933Movie as Big Bill Barton
Eyes in the Night 1942Movie BloodstreamJustWatch TVPlex as Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
Come and Get It 1936Movie Amazon Prime Video as Barney Glasgow
Johnny Eager 1941Movie as John Benson Farrell
Three Wise Fools 1946Movie as Theodore Findley
The Hucksters 1947Movie as David 'Dave' Lash
Roman Scandals 1933Movie Plex as Emperor Valerius
Secret of the Blue Room 1933Movie as Commissioner Forster
Sherlock Holmes 1916Movie as Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
Kismet 1944Movie as The Grand Vizier
John Loves Mary 1949Movie as Sen. James McKinley
Lillian Russell 1940Movie as Diamond Jim Brady
Thirty Day Princess 1934Movie as Richard M. Gresham
The Ambassador's Daughter 1956Movie as Ambassador William Fisk
The Hidden Eye 1945Movie as Capt. Duncan Maclain