Edwin Maxwell (actor)
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. Prior to that, he was an actor on the Broadway stage and a director of plays.
Early life
Maxwell was a native of Dublin.
Career
In the late 1920s, Maxwell directed and acted in plays with the New York Theater Guild Repertory Company.
From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille. He was often uncredited for many of his film appearances. Maxwell appeared in four Academy Award-winning Best Pictures: All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Hotel, The Great Ziegfeld and You Can't Take It with You.
Personal life
Maxwell married actress Betty Alden. Maxwell died following a stroke.
Filmography
The Taming of the Shrew as BaptistaAll Quiet on the Western Front as Mr. Bäumer Top Speed as J.W. Rollins Du Barry, Woman of Passion as MaupeouThe Gorilla as Cyrus StevensInspiration as Uncle Julian MontellKiki as Dr. SmileyDaybreak as Herr HoffmanDaddy Long Legs as Wykoff Men of the Sky as CountThe Magnificent Lie as Eye Specialist New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford as Adam Carver the Hotel Manager Wicked as Owner of propertyThe Yellow Ticket as Police Agent BoligoffAmbassador Bill as Monte MontgomeryTwo Kinds of Women as Deputy Police Commissioner The Impatient Maiden as Prof. Von Mueller Shopworn as Bierbauer The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood as Chauncey ChadwickScarface as Chief of DetectivesYoung Bride as The DoctorGrand Hotel as Dr. WaitzThe World and the Flesh The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Detective The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Judge While Paris Sleeps as Prison Commandant Merrily We Go to Hell as Jake Symonds American Madness as Clark Blessed Event as Sam GobelThose We Love as MarshallTiger Shark as Doctor Six Hours to Live as Police CommissionerThe Girl from Calgary as Earl DarrellYou Said a Mouthful as Dr. VorseThe Son-Daughter as Chinese Priest Frisco Jenny as Tom Ford Tonight Is Ours as Mob LeaderState Trooper as W.J. BradyMystery of the Wax Museum as Joe WorthNight of Terror as The ManiacEmergency Call as Tom RourkeHeroes for Sale as Laundry Company PresidentGambling Ship as D.AThe Mayor of Hell as Louis JohnsonThe Woman I Stole as LentzThe Man Who Dared as Fletcher The Narrow Corner as Man Fred Killed Dinner at Eight as Mr. Fitch, Hotel ManagerThis Day and Age as Mayor's Assistant Broadway to Hollywood as Rockwell I Loved a Woman as Gossiper Ann Vickers as Defense Attorney Police Car 17 as Big Bill StandishBig Time or Bust as Winthrop AllenFog as Ship CaptainDuck Soup as Secretary of War Christopher Bean as Auctioneer Lady Killer as Jeffries, Theatre Manager Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Judge The Ninth Guest as Jason OsgoodThis Side of Heaven as R.S. Sawyer Dancing Man as Morton RandallMystery Liner as Major PopeHollywood Party as Producer Buddy Goldfarb The Life of Vergie Winters as Rally Speaker Burn 'Em Up Barnes as Lyman WarrenBack Page as Martin RegalThe Cat's-Paw as District Attorney NealGift of Gab as Norton, President WGABCleopatra as CascaElinor Norton as Army Doctor All the King's Horses as First Gentleman Great God Gold as NittoG Men as Joseph Kratz The Devil Is a Woman as Tobacco Plant Manager Motive for Revenge as William KingMen of Action as Jefferson, Crooked BankerThe Crusades as Ship's Master Happiness C.O.D. as Lester WalshThe Last Days of Pompeii as The Augur, a Pompeii Official Thanks a Million as Mr. CaseyDangerous Waters as Mr. BrunchThe Great Ziegfeld as Charles Frohman Big Brown Eyes as EditorMr. Deeds Goes to Town as Douglas Panic on the Air as GordonAbsolute Quiet as Mr. Baxter Fury as Will VickeryTo Mary - with Love as Byron C. WakefieldCome and Get It as Sid LeMaireThe Plainsman as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Camille as Doctor A Man Betrayed as RichardsTorture Money as Milton BeacherLove Is News as KenyonNight Key as KrugerA Star Is Born as Vocal Coach The Road Back as PrincipalSlave Ship as AuctioneerSlim as Corton One Hundred Men and a Girl as Ira Westing, Editor Love Takes Flight as Dave MillerNothing Sacred as Mr. Bullock Paradise for Three as First Lawyer Romance on the Run as MondoonHold That Kiss as Theatre Manager The Rage of Paris as Hotel Manager Rich Man, Poor Girl as Mr. Krauss, the Shoe Store Manager You Can't Take It with You as Attorney to Kirby Vacation from Love as Samson Hatfield Made for Each Other as Messerschmidt Young Mr. Lincoln as John T. Stuart Way Down South as Martin DillDrums Along the Mohawk as Reverend Daniel GrosNinotchka as MercierThe Shop Around the Corner as DoctorHis Girl Friday as Dr. Max J. EggelhofferThe Blue Bird as OakPound Foolish as George Reynolds Parole Fixer as Edward Murkil Jack Pot as Rocky FallonNew Moon as Captain de JeanBrigham Young as 2nd Mob LeaderKit Carson as John SutterThe Devil and Miss Jones as WithersRide on Vaquero as Dan ClarkBlossoms in the Dust as City Councilman Buy Me That Town as P.V. BaxterPacific Blackout as District AttorneyKnow for Sure as Dr. Paxton Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Sen. John RandolphI Live on Danger as Wingy KeefeStreet of Chance as Stillwell, D.A.Behind Prison Walls as Percy WebbHeaven Can Wait as Doctor Holy Matrimony as King Edward VII Waterfront as Max KramerSince You Went Away as Businessman in Cocktail Lounge The Great Moment as vice-president of Medical SocietyWilson as William Jennings BryanPractically Yours as Radio Official The Great John L. as Exhibition Ring Announcer Mama Loves Papa as KirkwoodSwamp Fire as Capt. Pierre MoiseThe Jolson Story as Oscar Hammerstein Second Chance as Mr. DavenportThe Gangster as Johnny, Politician Campus Honeymoon as Sen. HughesThe Vicious Circle as Presiding JudgeThe Walls of Jericho as Porter Grimes