Edwin Arden

Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright.

Biography

Arden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Richard Arden and Mary Berkeley Huntingdon Smith. After a common-school education he travelled west and worked in a number of different jobs, including as a mine-helper, cowboy, railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he made his debut as an actor with Thomas Keene's Shakespeare company. The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Around this time, he wrote several plays, including The Eagle's Nest, Raglan's Way, Barred Out, and Zorah.

He worked with a number of theatrical companies over the next thirty years, performing in such works as Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon, Victorien Sardou's Fédora, and in an all-star production of Romeo and Juliet at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York. In his later years, he had his own stock theatre company in Washington, D.C.^[1] He starred in silent films such as The Beloved Vagabond (1915).

Partial filmography

• The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
• The New Exploits of Elaine (1915)
• The Beloved Vagabond (1915)
• Virtuous Wives (1918)

References

• Johnson, Allen, editor. Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964)
• Edwin Arden at the Internet Broadway Database
• Obituary in Baltimore News

External links

• Media related to Edwin Arden at Wikimedia Commons
• Edwin Arden at the Internet Movie Database