Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film ''

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'' (1947), for which he won the

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and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the

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'' Mister 880'' (1950). He is also remembered for his appearances in four films directed by

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. As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, he was associated with a wide range of works by modern playwrights, including

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and J. B. Priestley. After the

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, he lived in the United States, where he had a successful career in Hollywood and Broadway.

Life and career

Early years

Gwenn was born in

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, London to John and Catherine ( Oliver) Kellaway. His brother was the actor

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, and his cousin was the actor

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. Gwenn was educated at St. Olave's School and later at

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."Mr Edmund Gwenn – Versatile Character Actor", ''The Times'', 8 September 1959, p. 13 He began his acting career in the theatre in 1895, and learned his craft as a member of Willie Edouin's company, playing brash comic roles. In 1901 he married Minnie Terry, niece of Dame

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. In the same year, he went to

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and acted there for three years with the J. C. Williamson company. His wife accompanied him, and when Gwenn was in a production of '' Ben Hur'' that was a disastrous failure, she restored the couple's fortunes by accepting an engagement from Williamson."Miss Minnie Terry"
''Table Talk'', 9 October 1902, p. 10 Later, the couple appeared on stage together in London in a farce called ''What the Butler Saw'' in 1905 and, in 1911, when Irene Vanbrugh made her debut in variety, she chose Terry and Gwenn to join her in a short play specially written by

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. When he returned to London, Gwenn appeared not in low comedy but in what ''

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'' called "a notably intellectual and even sophisticated setting" at the Court Theatre under the management of J. E. Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker. There, in 1905 to 1907, in the words of ''The Times'', "he was invaluable in smaller parts ivingevery part he played its full worth", including Straker, the proletarian chauffeur to John Tanner in

's '' Man and Superman'', and Drinkwater, the

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gangster in ''

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''. He also appeared in plays by Granville-Barker and

, in Elizabeth Robins's suffragette drama ''Votes for Women'' and in works by other contemporaries. In Barrie's '' What Every Woman Knows'' (1908) in the role of the over-enthusiastic James Wylie he impressed the producer

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, who engaged him for his repertory company at the

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. In 1912, Gwenn went into management in partnership with Hilda Trevelyan. His career was interrupted by his military service during the

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, serving as an officer in the

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. During the war, Gwenn's marriage broke up and was dissolved. His ex-wife remarried but remained on affectionate terms with him.

Leading roles on stage and screen

After peace returned, Gwenn's leading roles in the West End during the 1920s included Old Bill in

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's ''Old Bill, M.P.'' (1922); Christian Veit in '' Lilac Time'' (1922–23); the title role in

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's ''The Great Broxoff'' (1923); Leo Swinburne in '' Good Luck'' by Seymour Hicks and Ian Hay (1923); and Hippolyte Gallipot in Lehár's ''Frasquita'' (1925). Looking back at Gwenn's career, ''The Times'' considered, "Out of scores of other parts which he played in England and in America, the best remembered are probably Hornblower in Galsworthy's ''The Skin Game'', the Viennese paterfamilias in ''Lilac Time'' and Samuel Pepys in Fagan's ''And So to Bed'' in 1926." Gwenn began his film career in 1916, playing Macbeth in '' The Real Thing at Last'', a satire of the American film industry written by ''

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'' playwright

. A notable early role was a recreation of his stage character Hornblower in the 1921 Anglo-Dutch silent film of '' The Skin Game'', which he reprised ten years later in Alfred Hitchcock's early sound version of '' The Skin Game''. His debut in a talking picture was in an adaptation of Shaw's '' How He Lied to Her Husband'', made at Elstree in 1931. Of Gwenn's many British film roles, ''The Times'' considered his best known to be Jess Oakroyd in ''

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'' with

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and Jessie Matthews (1933) and Radfern in

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's '' Laburnum Grove'' with

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(1936). His final British film role, as a capitalist trying to take over a family brewery in '' Cheer Boys Cheer'' (1939) is credited with being the first authentic

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. Gwenn appeared in more than eighty films, including ''

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'' (1940), '' Cheers for Miss Bishop'', '' Of Human Bondage'' and ''

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''.

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's '' Sylvia Scarlett'' (1935) was his first appearance in a

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film, as

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's father. He settled in Hollywood in 1940 and became part of its British colony. He had a small role as a Cockney assassin in a Hitchcock film, '' Foreign Correspondent'' in 1940. For his Santa Claus role in ''

'' he won an

. He received a second Oscar nomination for his role in '' Mister 880'' (1950). Near the end of his career, he played one of the main roles in '' Them!'' (1954) and in Hitchcock's ''

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'' (1955). His last film role was in the Spanish satire '' The Rocket from Calabuch'' (1956), directed by

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. On Broadway Gwenn starred in the acclaimed 1942 production of Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'', starring

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(who was also the producer), Judith Anderson, and Ruth Gordon. ''

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'' proclaimed it, "a dream production by anybody's reckoning – the most glittering cast the theatre has seen, commercially, in this generation."

Later years

Gwenn remained a British subject all his life. When he first moved to Hollywood, he lived at the

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. His home in London had been reduced to rubble during the bombings by the German

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in the

. Only the fireplace survived. What Gwenn regretted most was the loss of the memorabilia he had collected of the actor

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. Eventually, Gwenn bought a house at 617 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills, which he later shared with the former Olympic athlete Rodney Soher. At the age of 78 he travelled from his home in California for a reunion with his ex-wife in London."Veteran Edmund Gwenn Keeps a Tryst", '' The Daily Mail'', 12 July 1956, p. 3 He told a reporter, "I never married again because I was very happy with my wife. I simply stayed faithful to the memory of that happiness."

Death

Gwenn died from

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after suffering a

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, in

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, twenty days before his 82nd birthday. He was cremated, and his ashes were placed in the private vaults at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in

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. Gwenn has a star on the

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at 1751 Vine Street for his contribution to motion pictures. On March 5, 2023, Gwenn's misplaced urn was located in Vault 5 of Chapel of the Pines Crematory by researcher Jessica Wahl and Hollywood Graveyard

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channel creator Arthur Dark. After a

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campaign organized by Wahl and Dark and with the permission of Gwenn's surviving family, Gwenn's urn was relocated to a publicly accessible niche in the Cathedral Mausoleum of

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on December 3, 2023.

Filmography

* '' The Real Thing at Last'' (1916) as Rupert K. Thunder / Macbeth * '' Unmarried'' (1920) as Simm Vandeleur * '' The Skin Game'' (1921) as Hornblower * '' How He Lied to Her Husband'' (1931) as Teddy Bompas * '' The Skin Game'' (1931) as Mr. Hornblower * '' Hindle Wakes'' (1931) as Chris Hawthorne * '' Frail Women'' (1932) as The Bookmaker - Jim Willis * '' Money for Nothing'' (1932) as Sir Henry Blossom * '' Condemned to Death'' (1932) as Banting * '' Love on Wheels'' (1932) as Philpotts * '' Tell Me Tonight'' (1932) as Mayor Pategg * ''

'' (1933) as Jess Oakroyd * ''

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'' (1933) as Edmund Gilbert * '' I Was a Spy'' (1933) as Burgomaster * '' Smithy'' (1933) as John Smith * '' Channel Crossing'' (1933) as Trotter * '' Marooned'' (1933) as Tom Roberts * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1933) as Mr. Wakefield * '' Early to Bed'' (1933) as Kruger * '' Waltzes from Vienna'' (1934) as Johann Strauss, the Elder * '' Warn London'' (1934) as Dr. Herman Krauss * '' Passing Shadows'' (1934) as David Lawrence * '' Java Head'' (1934) as Jeremy Ammidon * ''

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'' (1934) as Admiral Fitzporter * '' Father and Son'' (1934) as John Bolton * '' Spring in the Air'' (1934) as Franz * '' The Bishop Misbehaves'' (1935) as Bishop * '' Sylvia Scarlett'' (1935) as Henry Scarlett * '' The Walking Dead'' (1936) as Dr. Beaumont * '' Laburnum Grove'' (1936) as Mr. Radfern * ''

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'' (1936) as John Bonnyfeather * '' All American Chump'' (1936) as Jeffrey Crane * '' Mad Holiday'' (1936) as Williams * '' Parnell'' (1937) as Campbell * '' South Riding'' (1938) as Alfred Huggins * '' A Yank at Oxford'' (1938) as Dean of Cardinal * ''

Penny Paradise ''Penny Paradise'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver and Jimmy O'Dea. Plot The film is set in Liverpool, where tugboat captain Joe Higgins, believing he has won £20,000 on the foot ...

'' (1938) as Joe Higgins * '' Cheer Boys Cheer'' (1939) as Edward Ironside * '' The Earl of Chicago'' (1940) as Munsey, the Butler * '' An Englishman's Home'' (1940) as Tom Brown * '' The Doctor Takes a Wife'' (1940) as Dr. Lionel Sterling * ''

'' (1940) as Mr. Bennet * '' Foreign Correspondent'' (1940) as Rowley * '' Cheers for Miss Bishop'' (1941) as President Corcoran * ''

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'' (1941) as Inspector Cork * '' The Devil and Miss Jones'' (1941) as Hooper * '' One Night in Lisbon'' (1941) as Lord Fitzleigh * '' Charley's Aunt'' (1941) as Stephen Spettigue * '' A Yank at Eton'' (1942) as Headmaster Justin * '' Forever and a Day'' (1943) as Stubbs * '' The Meanest Man in the World'' (1943) as Frederick P. Leggitt * ''

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'' (1943) as Rowlie * '' Between Two Worlds'' (1944) as Scrubby * ''

'' (1944) as Father Hamish MacNabb * '' Dangerous Partners'' (1945) as Albert Richard Kingby * '' Bewitched'' (1945) as Dr. Bergson * '' She Went to the Races'' (1945) as Dr. Homer Pecke * '' Of Human Bondage'' (1946) as Athelny * '' Undercurrent'' (1946) as Professor 'Dink' Hamilton * ''

'' (1947) as Kris Kringle * '' Life with Father'' (1947) as Reverend Dr. Lloyd * '' Thunder in the Valley'' (1947) as Adam MacAdam * '' Green Dolphin Street'' (1947) as Octavius Patourel * '' Apartment for Peggy'' (1948) as Professor Henry Barnes * '' Hills of Home'' (1948) as Dr. William MacLure * '' Challenge to Lassie'' (1949) as John Traill * '' A Woman of Distinction'' (1950) as Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott * '' Louisa'' (1950) as Henry Hammond * '' Pretty Baby'' (1950) as Cyrus Baxter * '' Mister 880'' (1950) as William 'Skipper' Miller * '' For Heaven's Sake'' (1950) as Arthur * '' Peking Express'' (1951) as Father Joseph Murray * '' Sally and Saint Anne'' (1952) as Grandpa Pat Ryan * ''

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'' (1952) as Bishop Courbet * '' Bonzo Goes to College'' (1952) as Ted 'Pop' Drew * '' Something for the Birds'' (1952) as 'Admiral' Johnnie Adams * '' Mister Scoutmaster'' (1953) as Dr. Stone * '' The Bigamist'' (1953) as Mr. Jordan * ''

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'' (1954) as Professor Juttner * '' Them!'' (1954) as Dr. Harold Medford * ''

'' (1955) as Captain Albert Wiles * '' It's a Dog's Life'' (1955) as Jeremiah Edward Emmett Augustus Nolan * '' Calabuch'' (1956, U.S. title ''The Rocket from Calabuch'') as Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton * ''

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'' (1957) (Season 2 Episode 36: "Father and Son") as Joe Saunders

Radio appearances

*Audition program for the ''

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'' radio program.

References

External links

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Edmund Gwenn in Screen Director's Playhouse: ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1949)
(Downloadable mp3 and streaming audio)
Edmund Gwenn in Lux Radio Theater: ''Miracle on 34th Street'' (1948)
(Downloadable mp3 and streaming audio)

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