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Edmund Lowe Biography

Birth Name:Edmund Dantes Lowe

Birth Place:San Jose, California, United States

Profession Actor, Soundtrack

Fast Facts

  • Graduated from Santa Clara University in California
  • Worked briefly as a schoolteacher before joining a theater company in Los Angeles, making both his stage and film debuts in 1915
  • Best known as a silent film actor who appeared in "What Price Glory" and "In Old Arizona․"
  • His profane exchange of banter with Victor McLaglen's character in the silent film "What Price Glory," although toned down for the intertitles, resulted in several compliments to the studio from lip-readers

Awards

  • 1927Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (February): winner
  • 1928Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (May): winner
  • 1929Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (October): winner
  • 1930Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
  • 1930Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (June): winner
  • 1930Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (August): winner
  • 1931Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
  • 1931Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (September): winner
  • 1931Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (October): winner
  • 1931Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (November): winner
  • 1932Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (July): winner
  • 1936Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (September): winner