Edmund Gwenn
22 titles
Filmography
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Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)The holiday season is in full swing when an older gentleman is hired as a department store Santa Claus. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit - except his boss, Doris Walker. When Kris is declared insane and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as old and young alike face the age old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

The Rocket from Calabuch
(1956)
The Admiral's Secret
(1934)A pair of crooks pursue a retired admiral to a cottage to steal a valuable, and unbeknownst to them, cursed diamond from his possession.

Mister Scoutmaster
(1953)An arrogant TV star who thinks that children are to be seen and not heard, is worried that his show is failing because he is out of touch with the younger generation. He becomes a Boy Scout leader hoping that if he can learn how to interact with the youth they will be more inclined to watch his show.

The Trouble with Harry
(1955)Oscar® winner Shirley MacLaine makes her screen debut in this comedy mystery that stars Edmund Gwenn and John Forsythe and includes romance, humor... and several unearthings of a corpse.
Mister 880
(1950)
Cheers for Miss Bishop
(1941)Unlucky in love, a duty-bound 1880s Midwestern schoolteacher sacrifices 50 years of her life to her students and raises her ex-fiancé’s child.
It's a Dog's Life
(1955)This comedy tells the classic American tale of a terrier who rises from the dogfights of the Bowery to compete as a show dog on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. All along, he keeps looking for his mother--and for the father who left them both. In a tale told entirely by the canine star, Wildfire, we see how the world looks when It's a Dog's Life.

Peking Express
(1951)A doctor encounters romance and intrigue aboard a Chinese express train.

Life with Father
(1947)In 1880s New York, a curmudgeonly stockbroker demands the strictest order in his household. But his wife and four sons have demands of their own.

The Devil and Miss Jones
(1941)John P Merrick, the world's richest man, is annoyed to hear workers at one of his stores are trying to form a union. Getting a menial job, he's determined to root out the troublemakers, but soon finds their grievances are genuine through the eponymous Miss Jones, Merrick's co-worker and O'Brien's girlfriend. Eventually, Merrick leads the fight for decent rights and also finds a girl of his own.

Lassie Come Home
(1943)In this endearing family classic, a collie makes many friends as it journeys from Scotland to Yorkshire to return to its young master in Lassie Come Home.

Them!
(1954)An Endless Terror! A Nameless Horror! ... Kill one and two take its place! Ten years after atomic bomb tests, a little girl wanders alone out of the New Mexico desert.

The Bigamist
(1953)Harry y Eve son un matrimonio de San Francisco que, al no poder tener hijos, deciden adoptar uno. Pero Harry guarda un secreto: tiene otra esposa.

Les Miserables
(1952)Based on the novel by Victor Hugo. The fanatical Inspector Javert Relentlessly pursues Jean Valjean, an ex-convict trying to go straight.

Sylvia Scarlett
(1935)Comedy drama starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. A widowed, ne'er-do-well father on the run disguises his daughter as a boy to escape the law.
Pretty Baby
(1950)This comedy takes a swipe at radio and television advertising, as a woman rises in the business world after carrying a blanket-wrapped doll in order to get a subway seat. Patsy Douglas (Betsy Drake), an enterprising young lady who always assures herself a seat on the subway by carrying a doll wrapped in baby bunting, eventually must continue the charade when it is assumed that the baby is genuine. Patsy's bosses, advertising executives Sam Morley (Dennis Morgan) and Barry Holmes (Zachary Scott), hope to use Patsy's bundle of joy to land an important client, grouchy baby-food tycoon Cyrus Baxter (Edmund Gwenn). William Frawley (I Love Lucy) also stars.
The Skin Game
(1931)
The Student Prince
(1954)A prince falls in love with a barmaid during his last fling before assuming the crown.

The Keys of the Kingdom
(1944)Flashbacks enhance this story of a Scottish priest's life long devotion to the church and those whose lives he enriched while working in China. Based on a. J. Cronin's novel.