Eddie Polo

Who was Eddie Polo?

Eddie Polo was an Austro-American actor of the silent era. Born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. With his brother Sam he was the trapeze act The Flying Cordovas. From 1913 he appeared in serials and films in the USA and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s. After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as an makeup artist. Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

He was the father of actress Malvina Polo, best remembered as the retarded girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives. His brother was the acrobat, actor and makeup artist Sam Polo.