Edward Arnold
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.
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Movie Appearances
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Jim Taylor
1939
Annie Get Your Gun
as Pawnee Bill
1950
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
1982
Meet John Doe
as D.B. Norton
1941
You Can't Take It with You
as Anthony P. Kirby
1938
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
as Joe Lorgan
1949
The Houston Story
as Paul Atlas
1956
City That Never Sleeps
as Penrod Biddel
1953
I'm No Angel
as Big Bill Barton
1933
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Johnny Eager
as John Benson Farrell
1941
All That Money Can Buy
as Daniel Webster
1941
Miami Exposé
as Oliver Tubbs
1956
The Glass Key
as Paul Madvig
1935
Three on a Match
as Ace
1932
Roman Scandals
as Emperor Valerius
1933
Ziegfeld Follies
as Lawyer (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")
1945
Kismet
as The Grand Vizier
1944
Idiot's Delight
as Achille Weber
1939
Sadie McKee
as Brennan
1934
