Edwin Maxwell (actor)

For other people named Edwin Maxwell, see Edwin Maxwell (disambiguation).

Edwin Maxwell
Born	(1886-02-09)9 February 1886 Dublin, Ireland
Died	Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1918–48

Edwin Maxwell (9 February 1886 – 13 August 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as shady businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a dignified bearing.

From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille. Maxwell appeared in four Academy Award-winning Best Pictures: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Partial filmography

• The Taming of the Shrew (1929) film debut as Baptista
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) as Mr. Bäumer
• The Yellow Ticket (1931)
• Scarface (1932) as chief of detectives
• Grand Hotel (1932) as Dr. Waitz
• Those We Love (1932)
• State Trooper (1933)
• Duck Soup (1933) as Freedonia's Secretary of War
• Dinner at Eight (1933) as Mr. Fitch
• Night of Terror (1933) as The Maniac
• The Ninth Guest (1934)
• Cleopatra (1934) as Casca

• The Great Ziegfeld (1936) as Charles Frohman
• Fury (1936) as Will Vickery
• Panic on the Air (1936)
• Torture Money (1937)
• You Can't Take It With You (1938) as Kirby's attorney
• Romance on the Run (1938)
• Ninotchka (1939) as Mercier
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) as Reverend Daniel Gros
• His Girl Friday (1940) as Dr. Max J. Eggelhoffer
• Pacific Blackout (1941)
• Wilson (1944) as William Jennings Bryan
• The Jolson Story (1946) as Oscar Hammerstein

External links

• Edwin Maxwell at the Internet Movie Database
• Edwin Maxwell at the Internet Broadway Database
• Edwin Maxwell at Find a Grave