Person Details

Birthday: 1890-02-18 16:31:21

Death: 1956-04-26 16:31:21

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 55

TV Involvements: 4


Most Famous Work

Biography

Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. 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.

Most Famous Work

What's My Line?
Average
7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Climax!
Average
3

Climax!

(1954) Lieutenant Shipley
Studio One
Average
4

Studio One

(1948) Juror #10
That's Entertainment!
Average
7

That's Entertainment!

(1974) (archive footage) (uncredited)
He Who Gets Slapped
Average
8

He Who Gets Slapped

(1924) Extra (uncredited)
All That Money Can Buy
Average
7

All That Money Can Buy

(1941) Daniel Webster
Crime and Punishment
Average
7

Crime and Punishment

(1935) Inspector Porfiry
Three on a Match
Average
6

Three on a Match

(1932) Ace

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2013 Self (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1984 Donald Deagle (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982 (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
1974 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1956 Oliver Tubbs
Ambassador William Fisk
Paul Atlas
1954 Jock Fathian
Lieutenant Shipley
Self
Juror #10
The Mayor of New York
1953 J.R. Compton
Penrod Biddel
N/A
John Prescott / Mayor Underwood
1952 N/A
N/A
Sam Harper
1951 N/A
Senator Wilkins
1950 Adm. Homer Thorndyke
Pawnee Bill
Martin Creavy
Self - Mystery Guest
1949 Judge Wilkins
Mahoney
Joe Lorgan
Sen. James McKinley
1948 Congressman Arthur Malcolm
Juror #10
Self
Self - Guest Host
Andrew J. Linnett
Judge Martin O. Abercrombie
Robert Nelson
1947 David 'Dave' Lash
Judge Harry Wilkins
Mr. Charles G. Bledsoe
Mike Glenson
Self
1946 Theodore Findley
Charles Conway
Hobart Canford Stiles
Self
1945 Martin Edley
Capt. Duncan Maclain
Lawyer (segment Pay the Two Dollars)
Lt. Lorrgan
1944 Amory Stilham
The Grand Vizier
Charles Conway
T.J. Todd
1943 Burton V. Lyons
1942 Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
Elliot Fulton
The Devil
1941 John Benson Farrell
Judson M. 'J.M.' / 'Judsy' Blair
Merrill Lambert
Daniel Webster
T.T. Ralston
James 'Jim' Cork
D.B. Norton
Martin 'Stuff' Nelson
1940 Diamond Jim Brady
Robert Cain Sr.
Quentin 'Doc' Ramsey
1939 Vincent Cushing
Jim Taylor
Sir John Arlington
Diamond Jim Brady (edited from 'Diamond Jim')
Jim Knox
Achille Weber
1938 Anthony P. Kirby
Jim Cain
1937 Ira Collins
Jim Fisk
J.B. Ball
John Meade
1936 Barney Glasgow
Nero Wolfe
Johan (John) Sutter
1935 Inspector Porfiry
Danny Harrison
Diamond Jim
Paul Madvig
Louis XIII
Mr. 'Feydie' Feydak
1934 Secretary of War Wardell
Ray Phillips
Vincent Shelton
Det. Lt. 'Mac' MacCarthy
Richard M. Gresham
Jack Brennan
Frank Rodie
Schultz
1933 Politician (uncredited)
Big Bill Barton
Orson Bitzer
Commissioner Forster
Sen. Brander
Inspector Ennis
Achmed Pasha
Father Saracinesca
Jake Dillon
Emperor Valerius
1932 Doctor Remezov
Jig Skelli
Ace
Duke Morgan
N/A
1924 Extra (uncredited)
1919 Mr. Frewen
Tom Wentworth
1916 Seymour Purchwell
Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
Sidney Parker
Year Character Movie/Tv

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