Edward Arnold

Acting · Born 1890-02-17 in New York City, New York, USA

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 as Jim Taylor
• Annie Get Your Gun as Pawnee Bill
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
• Meet John Doe as D.B. Norton
• You Can't Take It with You as Anthony P. Kirby
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game as Joe Lorgan
• The Houston Story as Paul Atlas
• City That Never Sleeps as Penrod Biddel
• I'm No Angel as Big Bill Barton
• Johnny Eager as John Benson Farrell