Edmund Elton

Edmund Elton (February 5, 1870, Preston, Lancashire – January 4, 1952, Los Angeles, California) was an English actor and singer. After beginning his career in British music halls in the late 19th century, he relocated to the United States where he had a career as a performer in plays and musicals on Broadway, vaudeville, and in both silent film and talking pictures in Hollywood during the first half of the 20th century.

Elton made his Broadway debut as the villain Struve in the 1907 play adaptation of Rex Beach's 1906 novel The Spoilers at the New York Theatre. He created roles in several more original plays on Broadway, including Henry P. Schofield in Edward Everett Rose's Penrod (1918), Bill Avery in Paul Armstrong's Alias Jimmy Valentine (1921), Hendricks in John Willard's The Cat and the Canary (1922), Frederic J. Norton in Pierre Gendron's Kept (1926), J. Cheever West in Willis Maxwell Goodhue's Betty, Be Careful (1931), Barker in Ernst Toller's Bloody Laughter (1931), and Mr. Bullock in Herbert Polesie and John McGowan's Heigh-Ho, Everybody (1932).

In 1916, Elton starred as Capulet in the Metro Pictures silent film Romeo and Juliet. He portrayed Robert Darzac in the Mayflower Photoplay Company's The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919). His other film roles included The Mayor in How've You Bean (1933), Mr. "Pop" Martin in Stella Dallas (1937), Mr. Rutledge in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939), Dr. Turner in Should a Girl Marry? (1939), Judge Bent in Back in the Saddle (1941), and the elderly man in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) among others.

Elton died in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1952.