Edward Connelly
{{short description|American actor (1859–1928)}}
{{for-multi|the American military officer and politician|Edward J. Connelly|the federal prosecutor|Edward M. Connelly|other people|Edward Connolly (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Edward Connelly
| image = Edward Connelly 001.jpg
| caption = Connelly, c. 1909
| birth_date = {{birth date|1859|12|30}}
| birth_place = New York, New York, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1928|11|21|1859|12|30}}
| death_place = Hollywood, California, US
| yearsactive = 1914–28
| occupation = Actor
}}
Edward Connelly (December 30, 1859 – November 21, 1928) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.
Biography
Connelly had a Broadway theater career going back to the Victorian era. His Broadway credits include The Wild Duck (1918), The Great Adventure (1913), A Good Little Devil (1913), The Dollar Princess (1909), Twiddle-Twaddle (1906), Bird Center (1904), Babette (1903), and The Belle of New York (1900).{{cite web|title=Edward J. Connelly|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/edward-j-connelly-67138|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League|access-date=March 31, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331005938/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/edward-j-connelly-67138|archivedate=March 31, 2018}}
Connelly appeared in 69 films between 1914 and 1929. His last film was The Desert Law.
He was born in New York, New York and died of influenza{{cite news|title=Edward Connelly Gone|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18787409/edward_connelly/|work=Tampa Bay Times|date=December 30, 1928|location=Florida, St. Petersburg|page=20|via = Newspapers.com|access-date= March 30, 2018}} {{Open access}} in Hollywood, California. He was survived by his wife.{{cite news|title=(untitled brief)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18787540/edward_donnelly/|work=The Montana Standard|date=December 23, 1928|location=Montana, Butte|page=37|via = Newspapers.com|access-date= March 30, 2018}} {{Open access}}
Selected filmography
File:Wild-Duck-1918-2.jpg, Alla Nazimova and Connelly in the original Broadway production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1918)]]
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- A Good Little Devil (1914)
- Shore Acres (1914)
- The Devil (1915)
- Marse Covington as Covington Halliday ("Marse Covington"){{cite web | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498057/marse-covington#overview | title=Marse Covington }}
- The Fall of the Romanoffs (1917)
- A Successful Adventure (1918)
- The First Law (1918)
- The Lion's Den (1919)
- The Red Lantern (1919)
- The Great Victory (1919)
- The World and Its Woman (1919)
- The Parisian Tigress (1919)
- In Old Kentucky (1919)
- Johnny-on-the-Spot (1919)
- False Evidence (1919)
- Easy to Make Money (1919)
- The Willow Tree (1920)
- Shore Acres (1920)
- The Saphead (1920)
- Hearts Are Trumps (1920)
- Cinderella's Twin (1920)
- Dangerous to Men (1920)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- The Last Card (1921)
- The Conquering Power (1921)
- Conflict (1921)
- Camille (1921)
- Turn To The Right (1922)
- Kisses (1922)
- Love in the Dark (1922)
- Seeing's Believing (1922)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
- Trifling Women (1922)
- Her Fatal Millions (1923)
- Desire (1923)
- Where the Pavement Ends (1923)
- Slave of Desire (1923)
- The Goldfish (1924)
- A Fool's Awakening (1924)
- The Denial (1925)
- The Unholy Three (1925)
- Sun-Up (1925)
- So This Is Marriage? (1925)
- The Merry Widow (1925)
- The Torrent (1926)
- Brown of Harvard (1926)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
- Love (1927)
- The Show (1927)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
- Across to Singapore (1928)
- Forbidden Hours (1928)
- The Mysterious Lady (1928)
- Brotherly Love (1928)
- The Desert Rider (1929)
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References
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External links
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Category:American male film actors
Category:American male silent film actors