Edwin Maxwell

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Edwin Maxwell (b. February 9, 1886 in Dublin, Ireland; d. August 13, 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as shady businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a dignified bearing.

From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille. Maxwell is notable for appearing in four Academy Award-winning Best Pictures: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and You Can't Take It With You (1938).

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• The Taming of the Shrew (1929) film debut as Baptista
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) as Mr. Baumer
• The Yellow Ticket (1931)
• Scarface (1932) as chief of detectives
• Grand Hotel (1932) as Dr. Waitz
• Duck Soup (1933) as Freedonia's Secretary of War
• Dinner at Eight (1933) as Mr. Fitch
• Cleopatra (1934) as Casca
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936) as Charles Frohman
• Fury (1936) as Will Vickery
• Torture Money (1937)
• You Can't Take It With You (1938) as Kirby's attorney
• Ninotchka (1939) as Mercier
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) as Reverend Daniel Gros
• His Girl Friday (1940) as Dr. Eggelhoffer
• Wilson (1944) as William Jennings Bryan
• The Jolson Story (1946) as Oscar Hammerstein