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Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway, 26 September 1877– 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for being in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
As a stage actor in the West End and on Broadway, Gwenn was associated with a wide range of works by modern playwrights, including Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and J. B. Priestley. After the Second World War, he lived in the United States, where he had a successful career in Hollywood and on Broadway.
Actor Arthur Chesney was his brother and actor Cecil Kellaway was their cousin.
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04 June 1947
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
07 June 1945
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
14 October 1933
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
13 November 1936
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
03 April 1941
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
15 March 1934
In Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. clashes with his domineering father, who wants him to abandon music for a steady job in a bakery.
30 September 1952
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.
21 January 1932
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
05 January 1940
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
29 February 1936
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence.
04 July 1945
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
16 September 1950
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
13 September 1935
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned.
16 June 1954
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
16 August 1940
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war.
03 October 1955
In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
01 August 1951
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
29 September 1950
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr.
26 July 1940
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood.
01 December 1943
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling.
08 August 1933
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met.
16 March 1950
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return.
25 December 1935
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
21 January 1943
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house.
31 May 1950
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
01 November 1947
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County.
04 September 1933
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British.
26 February 1931
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
02 October 1931
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
06 March 1935
Two couples with mismatched mates find new romance blooming in the Bavarian countryside.
20 May 1944
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
18 February 1938
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
25 November 1948
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim.
02 September 1953
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing.
31 October 1949
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
24 February 1982
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
03 December 1953
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child.
16 November 1936
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave.
25 April 1940
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
28 September 1956
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions.
21 February 1941
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love.
15 January 1947
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William.
01 July 1952
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
01 January 1934
A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.
11 November 1946
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past.
01 November 1933
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road.
31 January 1957
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
11 April 1941
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store.
01 August 1938
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.
04 November 1945
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
13 September 1947
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
26 July 1932
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
15 December 1950
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
23 December 1955
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
01 August 1941
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
31 July 1934
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons.
13 June 1941
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
11 September 1952
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him into a college.
31 October 1932
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
