MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (Fantasy/Comedy)

Edmund Gwenn won his Supporting Oscar for playing the loveable Santa Claus hired by Macy's.

About Edmund Gwenn (1877 - 1959)

English stage actor Edmund Gwenn (discovered by George Bernard Shaw in 1902) who, in middle age became a Hollywood star and continued acting into his eighties. Edmund Gwenn began his stage career at the age of 17 after being kicked out of the house by his father for wanting to be an actor.

Gwenn left the stage briefly to go fight in World War I, going all the way to captain. Edmund Gwenn began working in films after the war's end in Britain. He arrived in Hollywood at age 60 in 1935 and consistently did good work in films there until his death in 1959.

Some of Edmund Gwenn's later work includes: THEM! (1954) and starring in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry" (1955).

Gwenn also received a Supporting Actor nomination for his 1950 role in MISTER 880.

Edmund Gwenn's other films include:

THE SKIN GAME (1921)
THE GOOD COMPANIONS (1933)
I WAS A SPY (1933)
EARLY TO BED (1933)
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)
ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936)
LABURNUM GROVE (1936)
SOUTH RIDING (1938)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
CHARLEY'S AUNT (1941)
A YANK AT ETON (1942)
LASSIE COME HOME (1943)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (1944)
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944)
LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)
A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION (1950)
PRETTY BABY (1950)
BONZO GOES TO COLLEGE (1952)
LES MISERABLES (1952)
THEM! (1954)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
IT'S A DOG'S LIFE (1955)
THE ROCKET FROM CALABUCH (1956)