Edmund Gwenn Filmography

Edmund Gwenn was an English theatre and film actor. Born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London and educated at St. Olave's School and later at King's College London, Gwenn began his acting career in the theatre in 1895. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays. Gwenn's career was interrupted by his military service during World War I; however, after the war, he began appearing in films in London. Gwenn appeared in more than eighty films during his career, including... the Greer Garson/Laurence Olivier version of Pride and Prejudice , Cheers for Miss Bishop, Of Human Bondage, and The Keys of the Kingdom. George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett marked his first appearance in a Hollywood film, as Katharine Hepburn's father; - his final British film, as a capitalist trying to take over a family brewery in Cheer Boys Cheer is credited with being the first authentic Ealing comedy. He settled in Hollywood in 1940 and became part of its British colony.
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