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Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

1890 – 1956·New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped

1924(uncredited)
Easy Living

Easy Living

1937J.B. Ball