Edwin Maxwell
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Edwin Maxwell (b. February 9, 1886 in Dublin, Ireland; d. August 13, 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as shady businessmen and shysters. From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille. Maxwell is the only actor to appear 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).
[edit] Partial filmography
- The Taming of the Shrew (1929) film debut as Baptista
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) as Mr. Baumer
- Scarface (1932) as chief of detectives
- Grand Hotel (1932) as Dr. Waitz
- Duck Soup (1933) as Freedonia's Secretary of War
- Dinner at Eight (1933) as Mr. Fitch
- Cleopatra (1934) as Casca
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936) as Charles Frohman
- Fury (1936) as Will Vickery
- You Can't Take It With You (1938) as Kirby's attorney
- Ninotchka (1939) as Mercier
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) as Reverend Daniel Gros
- His Girl Friday (1940) as Dr. Eggelhoffer
- Wilson (1944) as William Jennings Bryan
- The Jolson Story (1946) as Oscar Hammerstein
