Edgar Norfolk (5 November 1893 – 1980) was a British actor. [1]
Norfolk was born Edgar Greenwood. [2] He was the first husband of the actress Helen Saintsbury (a daughter of the actor H.A. Saintsbury); her second husband, Captain Buckley Rutherford, a son of Sir Ernest Rutherford (a wine importer, not the physicist Ernest Rutherford, although they were both born in 1871 and are sometimes confused [3]). [4] Four months after Saintsbury's wedding to Rutherford, he shot himself [5] and, distraught, less than a month later, Saintsbury also shot herself. [6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1932 | Hotel Splendide | 'Gentleman Charlie' | |
1932 | Illegal | Lord Alan Sevington | |
1932 | The Sign of Four | Capt. Morstan | Uncredited |
1932 | Insult | Captain Jean Conte | |
1933 | Forging Ahead | Lieutenant-Colonel Fair | |
1933 | His Grace Gives Notice | Captain Langley | |
1934 | The Black Abbot | Brian Heslewood | |
1934 | Tangled Evidence | Dr. Acland | |
1935 | Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle | Inspector Thomas | |
1936 | Men of Yesterday | ||
1947 | The Courtneys of Curzon Street | Mr. W. | |
1947 | Mine Own Executioner | Sir George Freethorne | |
1948 | Elizabeth of Ladymead | Uncredited | |
1949 | Silent Dust | Simpson | Uncredited |
1953 | The Beggar's Opera | 5th Turnkey | |
1953 | Laughing Anne | Conrad's Companion | (final film role) |
Edgar Norfolk (5 November 1893 – 1980) was a British actor. [1]
Norfolk was born Edgar Greenwood. [2] He was the first husband of the actress Helen Saintsbury (a daughter of the actor H.A. Saintsbury); her second husband, Captain Buckley Rutherford, a son of Sir Ernest Rutherford (a wine importer, not the physicist Ernest Rutherford, although they were both born in 1871 and are sometimes confused [3]). [4] Four months after Saintsbury's wedding to Rutherford, he shot himself [5] and, distraught, less than a month later, Saintsbury also shot herself. [6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1932 | Hotel Splendide | 'Gentleman Charlie' | |
1932 | Illegal | Lord Alan Sevington | |
1932 | The Sign of Four | Capt. Morstan | Uncredited |
1932 | Insult | Captain Jean Conte | |
1933 | Forging Ahead | Lieutenant-Colonel Fair | |
1933 | His Grace Gives Notice | Captain Langley | |
1934 | The Black Abbot | Brian Heslewood | |
1934 | Tangled Evidence | Dr. Acland | |
1935 | Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle | Inspector Thomas | |
1936 | Men of Yesterday | ||
1947 | The Courtneys of Curzon Street | Mr. W. | |
1947 | Mine Own Executioner | Sir George Freethorne | |
1948 | Elizabeth of Ladymead | Uncredited | |
1949 | Silent Dust | Simpson | Uncredited |
1953 | The Beggar's Opera | 5th Turnkey | |
1953 | Laughing Anne | Conrad's Companion | (final film role) |