Edmund Gwenn
Actor, Film actor
1877 – 1959
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Who was Edmund Gwenn?
Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, he 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 US, and made his career in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1877
Wandsworth - Also known as
- Edmund Kellaway
- Teddy
- Edmund John Kellaway
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Minnie Terry
(1901 - 1901)
- Minnie Terry
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- King's College London
- St Olave's Grammar School
- Died
- Sep 6, 1959
Woodland Hills - Resting place
- Chapel of the Pines Crematory
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on July 23, 2013
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