Edmund Gwenn

Acting Sep 26, 1877 Sep 6, 1959 (aged 82) Wandsworth, London, England, UK

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Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway, 26 September 1877– 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for being in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, Gwenn 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 United States, where he had a successful career in Hollywood and on Broadway.

Actor Arthur Chesney was his brother and actor Cecil Kellaway was their cousin.

89 Acting Credits

Edmund Gwenn

Acting

The Trouble with Harry

Miracle on 34th Street

Them!

Foreign Correspondent

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Pride and Prejudice

Lassie Come Home

The Bigamist

Sylvia Scarlett

The Walking Dead

The Skin Game

Life with Father

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Keys of the Kingdom

Undercurrent

Waltzes from Vienna

The Rocket from Calabuch

Between Two Worlds

Anthony Adverse

Mister 880

Bewitched

Green Dolphin Street

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Les Miserables