Robert Edeson

Robert Edeson
Born	(1868-06-03)June 3, 1868 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died	March 24, 1931(1931-03-24) (aged 62) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1912-1931

Robert Edeson (June 3, 1868, in New Orleans, Louisiana – March 24, 1931, in Hollywood, California) was an American movie and stage actor of the silent era. Edeson got his first boost in movies in 1914 when he starred in the Cecil B. DeMille directed film, The Call of the North (1914).

Edeson replaced actor Rudolph Christians in Erich von Stroheim's production of Foolish Wives (1922), after Christians died of pneumonia. Edeson famously only showed his back to the camera so as not to clash with shot footage of Christians that was still to be used in the completed film. He also starred in several Broadway productions as well.

Selected filmography

Fathers of Men (1916)

Year	Title	Role
1930	The Way of All Men	Swift
	The Lash	Don Mariana Delfine
	Danger Lights	Tom Johnson
	A Devil with Women	General Garcia
	Pardon My Gun	Pa Martin
1929	Romance of the Rio Grande	Don Fernando
	Dynamite	Wise Fool
1928	Walking Back	Edgar Thatcher
	Beware of Blondes	Costigan
	A Ship Comes In	Judge Gresham
1927	Altars of Desire	John Sutherland
	Chicago	William Flynn
1926	The Blue Eagle	Chaplain Regan
	The Clinging Vine	T. M. Bancroft
	The Volga Boatman	Prince Nikita
1925	Locked Doors	Norman Carter
	The Golden Bed	Amos Thompson
	Men and Women	Israel Cohen
	The Prairie Pirate	Don Esteban
1924	Thy Name Is Woman	The Commadante
	Triumph	Samuel Overton
	Men	Henri Duval
	Feet of Clay	Dr. Fergus Lansell
1923	The Ten Commandments	Inspector Redding
	To the Last Man	Gaston Isbel
	The Silent Partner	Ralph Coombes
1922	Sure Fire Flint	Anthony De Lanni
	The Prisoner of Zenda	Colonel Zapta
	Foolish Wives	Andrew J. Hughes
1915	The Caveman	Hanlick Smagg
1915	On the Night Stage	Austin
1914	The Call of the North	Ned Stewart
1913	The Paymaster's Son	The Paymaster's Son

External links

• Robert Edeson at IMDb
• Robert Edeson at the Internet Broadway Database
• Robert Edeson at Find a Grave
• a young Robert Edeson on the cover of THE THEATRE magazine September 1905