Eddie Polo
Eddie Polo | |
|---|---|
 Polo, 1922 | |
| Born | Edward W. Wyman / Weimer 1 February 1875 |
| Died | 14 June 1961 (aged 86) |
| Other names | Eddie Weimer |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1913-1944 |
| Children | Malvine Polo |
Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era. He was of Jewish descent.[1]
Biography
He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 1 February 1875. With his brother Sam he was the trapeze act The Flying Cordovas. Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the United States and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s. After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as a makeup artist.
He was the father of actress Malvina Polo (1903-2000), best remembered as the mentally handicapped girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922). His brother was the acrobat, actor and makeup artist Sam Polo (1872-1966).
Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | The Broken Coin | Roleau | |
| Graft | |||
| 1916 | The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring | Scenes deleted | |
| Liberty | Pedro | Alternative titles: The Fangs of the Wolf Liberty, a Daughter of the U.S.A. | |
| 1917 | The Gray Ghost | Marco | |
| Bull's Eye | Cody | ||
| 1918 | Lure of the Circus | Eddie Somers | |
| 1920 | King of the Circus | Eddie King | |
| The Vanishing Dagger | John Edward Grant | ||
| 1921 | Do or Die | Jack Merton | |
| The Secret Four | |||
| 1928 | Eddy Polo in the Wasp's Nest | Eddy Polo | |
| 1928 | Hands Up, Eddy Polo | Eddy Polo | |
| 1929 | On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight | Heini Box | |
| 1929 | The Daredevil Reporter | Reporter | |
| 1930 | Witnesses Wanted | ||
| 1930 | Of Life and Death | ||
| 1932 | All is at Stake |
References
- ^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213
External links
- Eddie Polo at IMDb
- Eddie Polo at Find a Grave
| International | |
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| National | |
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- 1875 births
- 1961 deaths
- Austrian Jews
- Jewish Austrian male actors
- American male film actors
- American male silent film actors
- Austrian male film actors
- Austrian male silent film actors
- 20th-century Austrian male actors
- American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
- Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
- People from Vienna
- 20th-century American male actors