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Edna Stillwell

Edna Marie Stillwell (1915–1982), American comedy writer and manager, first wife and business partner of Red Skelton; wrote Avalon Time and Ziegfeld Follies material; died Los Angeles 1982.

Edoardo Ponti

Edoardo Ponti (born 1973, Geneva) is an Italian-Swiss film director and screenwriter, youngest son of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, not the Imperial College NLP researcher. Known for Between Strangers (2002), Human Voice (2014), and Netflix's The Life Ahead (2020).

Édouard Dermit

Édouard Dermit (Antoine Dhermitte, 1925-1995), French actor and painter, Jean Cocteau's companion and universal legatee; played Cégeste in Orphée and Paul in Les Enfants terribles.

EDtv

EDtv is a 1999 American comedy directed by Ron Howard and starring Matthew McConaughey, about a cable channel broadcasting a video-store clerk's life around the clock.

Edu Manzano

Edu Manzano (Eduardo Luis Barrios Manzano), born 1955 in San Francisco, is a Filipino actor, game show host, and politician. Known for Captain Barbell (1986) and KAPP presidency; Makati vice mayor 1998–2001, Optical Media Board chair 2004–2009, twice disqualified by Comelec over citizenship.

Eduardo Verástegui

Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican actor and producer born 1974 in Mante, Tamaulipas; founder of Metanoia Films and Manto de Guadalupe; producer of Sound of Freedom (2023) and leader of CPAC Mexico.

Eduardo Yáñez

Eduardo Yáñez Luévano (born 1960, Mexico City) is a Mexican telenovela and film actor, star of Senda de gloria, Destilando amor, and Amores verdaderos, also in Striptease, The Punisher, and Telemundo's Lobo, morir matando.

Educating Rita (film)

Educating Rita (1983) is a British comedy-drama directed by Lewis Gilbert, adapted by Willy Russell from his 1980 play, starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters as an Open University professor and hairdresser student; BAFTA Best Film winner with three Oscar nominations.

Edvard Munch (film)

Edvard Munch (1974) is Peter Watkins's Norwegian-Swedish NRK/SR docudrama on the painter's early life, using amateur actors, diary dialogue, and nonlinear editing; first aired 12-13 November 1974, praised by Bergman and Tynan.

Edward Albert

Edward Albert (Edward Laurence Albert, 1951–2006), American actor, son of Eddie Albert and Margo; Golden Globe-winning star of Butterflies Are Free (1972), later Guarding Tess, Beauty and the Beast, Port Charles, and a California environmental and Native American rights activist.

Edward Andrews

Edward Andrews (Edward Bryan Andrews Jr., 1914–1985), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; Broadway from 1935, films from 1955; known for The Phenix City Story, Elmer Gantry, Sixteen Candles, and Gremlins.

Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold, born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider (1890–1956), American character actor in over 100 films, star of Diamond Jim and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Screen Actors Guild president 1940–1942.

Edward Berger

Edward Berger (born 1970, Wolfsburg) is a German director and producer, Oscar winner for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and director of Conclave (2024) and Ballad of a Small Player (2025).

Edward Bluemel

Edward Bluemel, born 1993 in Somerset, is a British actor known for Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane, and as Hercule Poirot in the BBC's Hercule, and for stage roles including Born With Teeth.

Edward Burns

Edward Burns (born 1968) is an American actor-writer-director whose debut, The Brothers McMullen, won the 1995 Sundance Grand Jury Prize; known for low-budget Irish-American New York films and Saving Private Ryan.

Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック)

Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック), the Fullmetal Alchemist, is the protagonist of Hiromu Arakawa's manga Fullmetal Alchemist: a State Alchemist certified at 12 who lost a leg and an arm to human transmutation and seeks to restore his brother Alphonse's body.

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), American character actor of stage, silent and sound film, radio, and TV; known for Astaire-Rogers musicals, Fractured Fairy Tales narration, and F Troop's Roaring Chicken.

Edward Fox (actor)

Edward Fox (Edward Charles Morrice Fox, born 1937) is an English actor, OBE, famous as the assassin in The Day of the Jackal; brother of James Fox, husband of Joanna David, father of Emilia and Freddie Fox.

Edward Furlong

Edward Walter Furlong (born 1977) is an American actor discovered at a Pasadena youth club to play John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), later known for American History X and Pecker, with addiction troubles in the 2000s and a reported seven years sober by 2026.

Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893–1973), Romanian-born American actor; star of Little Caesar (1931), Double Indemnity, and Scarlet Street; blacklisted-era Hollywood tough-guy icon.

Edward Hardwicke

Edward Cedric Hardwicke (1932-2011), English actor, son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke; played Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada's Sherlock Holmes (1986-1994) and Captain Pat Grant in Colditz.

Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann (Edward Kirk Herrmann, 1943-2014), American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Mrs. Warren's Profession, Emmy winner for The Practice, FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Annie, and Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.

Edward Hibbert

Edward Hibbert (born 1955) is an American-born English actor and literary agent, best known as food critic Gil Chesterton on Frasier (1994-2004, 29 episodes) and the 2024 revival, and an agent at Donadio & Olsen.

Edward II (1991 film)

Edward II (1991) is Derek Jarman's modern-dress film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play, starring Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, and Tilda Swinton; a New Queer Cinema landmark that won the Teddy Award at Berlin and changed the play's ending.

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born 1947), American actor, director, and activist; Emmy winner for Miami Vice's Lt. Castillo, Oscar-nominated for Stand and Deliver, Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica, and Latino-visibility advocate.

Edward Mulhare

Edward Mulhare (1923–1997), Irish-born actor from Cork; Broadway's Henry Higgins after Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady; TV's Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Devon Miles in Knight Rider.

Edward Norton

Edward Norton, or Edward Harrison Norton, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter born in Boston in 1969, recognized for intense dramatic roles like in Fight Club.

Edward Norton filmography

Edward Norton filmography: the actor-director's screen credits from Primal Fear (1996) to The Invite (2026), including four Oscar nominations, Keeping the Faith, and Motherless Brooklyn.

Edward Platt

Edward Platt (Edward Cuthbert Platt, 1916–1974), American character actor and trained bass-baritone, best known as the Chief of CONTROL opposite Don Adams on Get Smart (1965–1970); distinct from the English travel writer Edward Platt born 1968.

Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as a gentle artificial man with scissor blades for hands.