Edward Arnold
Known for Acting
Biography
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
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
as Jim Taylor
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
You Can't Take It with You
1938
as Anthony P. Kirby
Big Jack
1949
as Mahoney
Three Wise Fools
1946
as Theodore Findley
Land of Liberty
1939
as Diamond Jim Brady (edited from 'Diamond Jim')
Duck Soup
1933
as Politician (uncredited)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
All That Money Can Buy
1941
as Daniel Webster
Meet John Doe
1941
as D.B. Norton
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
as Doctor Remezov
The Hucksters
1947
as David 'Dave' Lash
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
as Lawyer (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")
The Earl of Chicago
1940
as Quentin 'Doc' Ramsey
The Toast of New York
1937
as Jim Fisk
I'm No Angel
1933
as Big Bill Barton
Living It Up
1954
as The Mayor of New York
Meet Nero Wolfe
1936
as Nero Wolfe
Johnny Eager
1941
as John Benson Farrell