Edmund Penney
{{Short description|American actor}}
Edmund Freeman Penney (July 26, 1926 - September 11, 2008) was an American actor, director, and author.
He studied at the University of Southern California and gave a winning oration on Patrick Henry.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWK-XJPDLIMC&dq=edmund+penney%C2%A0&pg=SL1-PA2399|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|first=United States|last=Congress|date=September 6, 1947|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}
He made a documentary on the Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelsflight.org/the-ed-penney-af-documentary-of-1965/|title=The Ed Penney AF Documentary of 1965|date=February 1, 2021}}
He wrote The Facts on File Dictionary of Film and Broadcast Terms. He co-authored Millard Sheets : One-Man Renaissance with Janice Lovoos.
Filmography
- Angel's Flight (1964) short documentary about the Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles, California{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9_jAAAAMAAJ&dq=edmund+penney%C2%A0&pg=PA146|title=Educational Films|date=September 6, 1973|publisher=University of Michigan Media Resources Center|via=Google Books}}
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), co-writer{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkKQahWHRHEC&dq=edmund+penney%C2%A0&pg=PA336|title=Justified Lives: Morality & Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah|first=Michael|last=Bliss|date=September 6, 1993|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1823-0 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJYfDAAAQBAJ&dq=edmund+penney%C2%A0&pg=PT311|title="If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!": The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah|first=David|last=Weddle|date=March 29, 2016|publisher=Open Road + Grove/Atlantic|isbn=978-0-8021-9008-6 |via=Google Books}}
- Walls of Fire (1971), a documentary film about Mexican muralists{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7boWAQAAIAAJ&q=edmund+penney%C2%A0|title=Somos|date=September 6, 1979|publisher=Los Padrinos of Southern California.|via=Google Books}}
- Alice Asmar, Artist (1998), writer and director
- The Dancing Prophet (1999){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42tgDwAAQBAJ&dq=edmund+penney%C2%A0&pg=PA78|title=The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages|first=Jan M.|last=Ziolkowski|date=June 11, 2018|publisher=Open Book Publishers|isbn=978-1-78374-436-7 |via=Google Books}} a documentary about dancer Ruth St. Denis{{cite web | url=https://librarycatalog.ecu.edu/catalog/5271401 | title=The dancing prophet / | date=29 October 1999 }}
Actor
- Where Will You Hide? (1948), short film{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/uwlibraries_emc8-889|title=Where Will You Hide?|date=September 6, 1948|via=Internet Archive}}
- Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1951), short film as Santa Claus
- Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)
- Adventures of Superman (1956), episode "Peril by Sea", as Guard
- The Ten Commandments (1956) as High Priest{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfuBAAAAQBAJ&dq=edmund+penney+the+ten+commandments&pg=PA165|title=Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments|first=Katherine|last=Orrison|date=March 30, 1999|publisher=Vestal Press|isbn=978-1-4617-3481-9 |via=Google Books}}
- Teenage Diary (1960), short film, as Russ Martin
- Bud and Lou (1978), television show
- The Jericho Mile (1979)
- The Grace Kelly Story (1983), television film, as Reporter #2
References
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External links
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- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81489611/edmund-freeman-penney Findagrave entry]
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