Wissenswertes

Suffered a stroke while at home at age 42 and hospitalized; later died of a brain hemorrhage at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Los Angeles.

Suffered a bizarre and serious injury on March 8, 1950, at the Hollywood Athletic Club when he stumbled on a stairway and fell over the railing, impaling himself on a spear atop an ornamental light standard, which penetrated 18 inches into his thigh.

Had a pilot's license and was trained to be a flight instructor.

According to Laura Wagner, in her article on Edmund in Films of the Golden Age, Summer 2015, Issue 381, Edmund loved motorcycles. Was in several accidents, one in which severed the top of one of his fingers.

Served in the Army during WWII.

His mother, Agnes, was one of the founders of Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. in 1939.

Boston-born support on radio and in "B" pictures with dark, menacing good looks and equipped with sliver mustache. He played cads and other tough-talking Brooklyn-styled characters in his two-decade career.

Of Irish parentage, he had one brother.

With a strong stage background, he made his Broadway debut in "Getting Even" in 1929.

Was survived by his parents and his wife and was interred at Los Angeles National Cemetery.