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Edmund Gwenn
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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.
As actor
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Hollywood’s Children
The Greer Case
The Rocket from Calabuch
The Trouble with Harry
It's a Dog's Life
Them!
The Student Prince
The Bigamist
Mister Scoutmaster
Bonzo Goes to College
Sally and Saint Anne
Les Miserables
Something for the Birds
Peking Express
Mister 880
For Heaven's Sake
A Woman of Distinction
Pretty Baby
Louisa
Challenge to Lassie
Hills of Home
Apartment for Peggy
Miracle on 34th Street
Life with Father
Green Dolphin Street
Thunder in the Valley
Undercurrent
Of Human Bondage
Bewitched