Edward McWade

AKA: Eddie McWade, Ed McWade, Edward McQuade

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1865-01-14

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography

Edward McWade was an American writer and stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than 132 films from 1919 to 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent film scenarios.

Crew Roles

Juggling with Fate

Writer

The Flight of the Crow

Story

The Devil and Tom Walker

Story

Thor, Lord of the Jungles

Writer

Captain Kate

Writer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {88}

Gibbs

1944-09-01 7.6

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

The Prison Doctor

1932-05-28 6.023

Two Seconds

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

The Sheriff

1922-12-01 0

Deserted at the Altar

Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl. ...

Genre :Drama

Confederate Soldier

1937-07-14 5.569

They Won't Forget

A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to th ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Russell Alger, Secretary of War

1940-02-21 6.7

Teddy the Rough Rider

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ...

Genre :Drama, History, Documentary

Tom Beal the Counterman

1932-04-16 5.9

The Crowd Roars

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Minister in Film (uncredited)

1936-04-24 6.2

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Mr. Carr

1920-08-01 0

Stop Thief

When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. ...

Genre :Comedy

Tupper

1935-11-30 6.8

Frisco Kid

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast. ...

Genre :Adventure, Romance, Action

Art Clerk

1935-06-01 6.5

The Girl from 10th Avenue

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, ...

Genre :Drama

Uncle Ira

1931-12-31 0

The Big Shot

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers. ...

Genre :Comedy

Simpson

1934-09-29 5.636

A Lost Lady

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man. ...

Genre :Drama

Tom Dugan

1939-08-05 5

Indianapolis Speedway

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Clark

1934-01-12 6.5

The Meanest Gal in Town

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. ...

Genre :Comedy

Harvey

1938-12-03 5

Comet Over Broadway

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Sloan

1938-06-23 5.8

White Banners

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but he ...

Genre :Drama

Brother Lamb

1937-09-10 5.5

The Women Men Marry

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Elias

1940-12-25 6

Chad Hanna

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, History

Ivan

1932-10-15 4.5

6 Hours to Live

The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery

Mr. Whitney

1936-05-02 0

F-Man

Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Frank Warren

1938-01-08 4.5

The Patient in Room 18

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Gorn

1936-02-15 7.9

Darkest Africa

A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest. ...

Genre :Adventure

Dr. Haverford

1920-03-14 5.3

Dangerous Days

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodr ...

Genre :Drama

Colonel Jackson

1940-08-10 6.3

The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. ...

Genre :Western

Harriman

1922-12-31 0

The Strangers' Banquet

In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brothe ...

Genre :

Ticket Seller

1937-12-21 0

Love and Hisses

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column. ...

Genre :Comedy

Trapper

1934-04-20 0

I'll Tell the World

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activ ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

1935-09-21 4.125

The Goose and the Gander

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Minister

1939-04-21 4.6

Zenobia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...

Genre :Comedy

Peter McGillicuddy

1938-09-23 6.2

Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is th ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Harvey

1936-12-11 6

Laughing at Trouble

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Bishop Mallory

1937-06-08 6.8

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleg ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Keene's Apartment Manager (uncredited)

1936-10-31 6.6

The Case of the Black Cat

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Pete ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Professor Trill (uncredited)

1939-06-23 6.2

Naughty But Nice

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New Yor ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Pawnbroker

1934-11-17 6.5

Gentlemen Are Born

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on i ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Dan

1935-06-08 7.3

Oil for the Lamps of China

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China. ...

Genre :Drama

Douglas, the Gardener (uncredited)

1936-06-22 5

The Big Noise

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. Thi ...

Genre :Comedy

Ludwig, Pat’s majordomo (uncredited)

1938-06-02 7.2

Three Comrades

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tub ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Chuck - the Old Timer

1935-04-27 6

Mary Jane's Pa

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to fi ...

Genre :Drama

Rigaud

1934-03-10 5.7

Journal of a Crime

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Grouchy Man

1934-09-01 0

One Exciting Adventure

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ticket Seller at Station (uncredited)

1939-10-27 4.9

Bad Little Angel

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town. ...

Genre :Drama

Newspaper Editor (uncredited)

1936-03-12 6

The Country Doctor

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets. ...

Genre :Drama

Charles Mack

1920-01-01 0

The Husband Hunter

Millionaire Kent Whitney is warned by Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, about the fickleness of his girlfriend, socialite Myra Hastings. Together they concoct a scheme to teach her a lesson. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Henry Gibson's Valet (Uncredited)

1933-03-04 4.625

Girl Missing

Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who has gone missing on her wedding night. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Ground-Hog

1942-06-19 5.273

Lady in a Jam

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Western

Aged Brother (uncredited)

1940-06-07 6.4

Brother Orchid

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

Baldy

1935-09-12 5.6

Red Salute

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her " ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

'Pi' Kelly

1939-05-20 3

They Asked For It

In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Crime

Pa Dawson

1936-04-25 4.7

I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople. ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Arden - Old Man (uncredited)

1934-10-20 4.5

I Sell Anything

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Stage Doorman

1935-10-04 0

Here's to Romance

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Second Director (uncredited)

1938-03-26 7

Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Chemist Who Poisoned Medicine (uncredited)

1940-10-19 5.8

A Dispatch from Reuters

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Elderly Clerk (uncredited)

1941-10-10 7.1

Nothing But the Truth

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours. ...

Genre :Comedy

Wise Man

1943-07-03 5

Don't You Believe It

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero did ...

Genre :Documentary, History

Doctor

1935-03-22 0

Life Begins at Forty

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank. ...

Genre :Comedy

City Fathers Committee Member (uncredited)

1936-07-22 5.656

Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

The Princess' Father

1936-02-22 0

King of the Islands

In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Adolph (uncredited)

1942-02-05 6.943

Woman of the Year

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Clement Williams

1934-12-15 4.7

Murder in the Clouds

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murde ...

Genre :Adventure, Mystery

Tailor (uncredited)

1935-10-12 6.5

Shipmates Forever

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Old man at library (uncredited)

1941-10-31 6.87

I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Tim Powers

1935-06-29 5.8

Stranded

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Billiard Ball Tester (uncredited)

1943-07-17 0

Trifles That Win Wars

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort. ...

Genre :

Crony

1943-04-22 6.3

Crash Dive

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been tra ...

Genre :War, Romance, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller

Neighbor

1939-12-01 2

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself. ...

Genre :Comedy

Thomas Carlyle (uncredited)

1942-10-24 5

Famous Boners

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Lawyer Partington

1935-12-10 3

The Calling of Dan Matthews

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate an ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

1935-12-30 7.4

If You Could Only Cook

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Tom - Dock Watchman (uncredited)

1933-09-16 5.556

Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Baggage Master (uncredited)

1932-09-18 5.3

Big City Blues

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bank Customer Explaining 'NSF' (uncredited)

1940-08-17 3.5

Money and the Woman

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Stationmaster Tucker (uncredited)

1937-07-02 5

She Had to Eat

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster. ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance

Stage Doorman (Uncredited)

1943-01-13 6.3

The Hard Way

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty. ...

Genre :Drama

Dan Baker (Uncredited)

1933-03-31 5.84

Murders in the Zoo

Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his a ...

Genre :Crime, Horror

Walter Emerson (Uncredited)

1936-09-23 5.8

Alibi for Murder

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scie ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tom

1937-04-14 5

Let's Get Married

Political kingmaker Joe Quinn attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby, into the the higher echelons of politics by getting him elected to Congress. His daughter, Paula Q ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Luke Watson

1925-03-16 5.6

The Monster

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Carlton

1940-05-24 0

Hot Steel

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues. ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Wimms

1919-07-01 0

Hornet's Nest

Genre :Drama

Jeweler (uncredited)

1934-07-20 6

The Notorious Sophie Lang

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Gorn

1966-01-01 0

Bat Men of Africa

Re-edited feature film version of the 1936 serial Darkest Africa. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Pop Hagen

1939-11-24 0

Our Neighbors - The Carters

A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Boston Doorman (uncredited)

1942-02-12 6.4

The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Avery Crawford

1923-04-16 0

The Town Scandal

Broadway chorus girl Jean Crosby visits her sister in Murphysburg and finds that not only has her brother-in-law, Lysander Sprowl, squandered all the money she has sent, but the leading male citizens- ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Moyle (uncredited)

1932-12-24 5.8

Lawyer Man

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profil ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Wong

1921-01-30 0

Wing Toy

In her sixteenth year, Wing Toy learns how as an infant she was brought to Wong, a Chinese laundryman, by a former convict known as The Mole and that her father was Chinese and her mother American. La ...