Edward Connelly(1859-1928)
- Actor
American character actor of silent films, Edward Connelly, a native New
Yorker, was a newspaperman before he became an actor, being a reporter
for the New York Sunl. At 25 he joined a theatrical stock company in
Kansas City and appeared subsequently on Broadway in such plays as
"Shore Acres," "The Belle of New York," "Babbitt," "The Wild Duck," and
his own production of "Marse Covington," which he later filmed
(Marse Covington (1915)). Moving
to Hollywood, he became a contract player at MGM, where he remained
until his death from influenza in 1928.
