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Edwin Stanley(1880-1944)

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  • Writer
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Edwin Stanley in Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Edwin Stanley was a bespectacled, white haired, distinguished-looking actor who was trained in live theater and who, except a few silent pictures, stayed in that medium until he reached the age of 51. In 1932, he made his screen debut in talking pictures in "Virtue". Thereafter, Stanley appeared in over 200 movies, specializing in officials such as doctors, lawyers, judges, producers, etc. Stanley appeared in several serials, including those featuring Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon. Stanley worked up until his death in 1944.
BornNovember 22, 1880
DiedDecember 25, 1944(64)
BornNovember 22, 1880
DiedDecember 25, 1944(64)
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Dorothy Arnold, Anthony Averill, Jerry Frank, Edwin Stanley, Forrest Taylor, and Regis Toomey in The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Dora Clement, Robert Kent, and Edwin Stanley in The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Smiley Burnette, Frank O'Connor, Lynne Roberts, and Edwin Stanley in Billy the Kid Returns (1938)
Ralph Byrd, John Picorri, Lorin Raker, Buddy Roosevelt, Edwin Stanley, and Carleton Young in Dick Tracy (1937)
John Picorri and Edwin Stanley in Dick Tracy (1937)
Ralph Byrd, Louis Morrell, and Edwin Stanley in Dick Tracy (1937)
John Picorri, Edwin Stanley, and Carleton Young in Dick Tracy (1937)
Richard Beach, John Picorri, and Edwin Stanley in Dick Tracy (1937)
Billie Burke, Russell Arms, George Barbier, Elisabeth Fraser, Grant Mitchell, Betty Roadman, Edwin Stanley, Richard Travis, and Monty Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Arnold, Robert Kent, Jack C. Smith, and Edwin Stanley in The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts, and Edwin Stanley in Billy the Kid Returns (1938)
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts, Rudy Sooter, and Edwin Stanley in Billy the Kid Returns (1938)

Known for

Conflict (1945)
Conflict
7.1
  • Phillips(as Ed Stanley)
  • 1945
Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Arnold, and Robert Kent in The Phantom Creeps (1939)
The Phantom Creeps
4.7
  • Dr. Fred Mallory
  • 1939
Noah Beery Jr., William Gargan, Nan Grey, and Dorothea Kent in Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937)
Some Blondes Are Dangerous
  • Reilly
  • 1937
Frederick Warde in King Lear (1916)
King Lear
5.5
  • Edgar
  • 1916

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Actor

  • Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Brian Donlevy, Howard Da Silva, Esther Fernández, and Barry Fitzgerald in Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
    Two Years Before the Mast
    • (uncredited)
  • Betty Hutton and Arturo de Córdova in Incendiary Blonde (1945)
    Incendiary Blonde
    • (uncredited)
  • Conflict (1945)
    Conflict
    • (as Ed Stanley)
  • Cora Sue Collins and David Reed in Youth on Trial (1945)
    Youth on Trial
    • (uncredited)
  • Lee Patrick, Eric Sinclair, and Jane Withers in Faces in the Fog (1944)
    Faces in the Fog
    • (uncredited)
  • Alan Ladd and Loretta Young in And Now Tomorrow (1944)
    And Now Tomorrow
    • (uncredited)
  • Walter Baldwin, Jim Bannon, Al Bridge, and Janis Carter in The Missing Juror (1944)
    The Missing Juror
    • (uncredited)
  • Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo in The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
    The Princess and the Pirate
    • (uncredited)
  • Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan in Heavenly Days (1944)
    Heavenly Days
    • (uncredited)
  • Edgar Buchanan, Marguerite Chapman, Allyn Joslyn, and Evelyn Keyes in Strange Affair (1944)
    Strange Affair
    • (uncredited)
  • Judy Canova in Louisiana Hayride (1944)
    Louisiana Hayride
    • (uncredited)
  • Deanna Durbin in Christmas Holiday (1944)
    Christmas Holiday
    • (uncredited)
  • Jamboree (1944)
    Jamboree
  • Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, W.C. Fields, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Susanna Foster, Grace McDonald, Donald O'Connor, George Raft, Peggy Ryan, Dinah Shore, Vera Zorina, and The Andrews Sisters in Follow the Boys (1944)
    Follow the Boys
    • (uncredited)
  • Maureen O'Hara and Joel McCrea in Buffalo Bill (1944)
    Buffalo Bill
    • (uncredited)

Writer

  • Men of Steel
    • (as Eddie Stanley)

Personal details

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    • November 22, 1880
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • December 25, 1944
    • Hollywood, California, USA
    • 1895 - October 24, 1922 (her death, 2 children)
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    He filmed his role as Phillips in the Humphrey Bogart movie Conflict in 1943. The movie was delayed due to a plagiarism lawsuit concerning its story. Stanley died in 1944, and the movie wasn't released until 1945.

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