Seth Arnold

Seth Arnold (1885 – January 3, 1955) was an American theater and film character actor.

Early life Arnold was born in 1885 in London, England to American parents. His father represented the American Tobacco Company in London. After his family moved back to the United States, Seth joined the Castle Square Stock Company in Boston in 1901. In 1939, he starred with Helen Hayes in What Every Woman Knows. He was in Conquest in 1940 and in Clash By Night in 1941. He again appeared with Hayes in Harriet (about Harriet Beecher Stowe) in 1943. He also starred in Last Stop (1944), A Place of Our Own (1945), A Joy Forever (1945), I Like It Here (1946), Years Ago (1946). In 1947, he left Broadway to appear in the Hollywood version of Mourning Becomes Electra but was forced out of the cast by illness. He appeared in other films, including Lost Boundaries. He returned to Broadway in 1950's Arms and the Girl.