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- Edwin Maxwell was born on February 9, 1886 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Scarface (1932), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and His Girl Friday (1940). He was married to Betty Alden. He died on August 13, 1948 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseBetty Alden(? - April 7, 1948) (her death)
- His body was cremated; per his request, his ashes were scattered over Broadway.
- He appeared in four Best Picture Academy Award winners: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and You Can't Take It with You (1938). He also appears in nine other Best Picture nominees: Cleopatra (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), A Star Is Born (1937), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), Ninotchka (1939), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Since You Went Away (1944), and Wilson (1944).
- Irish character from Broadway in Hollywood's early talkies -- played both benevolent and unscrupulous types, usually minor roles.
- Prolific on Broadway between 1918 and 1928. Subsequently concentrated on screen acting and also worked as a dialogue director in the early 1940's.
- Edwin Maxwell was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a pompous or dignified bearing.
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