Edmund Lowe

Edmund Lowe
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film.
Biography
Lowe was born in San Jose, California. His father was a local judge. His childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose. He attended Santa Clara College and entertained the idea of becoming a priest before starting his acting career. He died in Woodland Hills, California, of lung cancer and is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.
Film career
Lowe's career included over 100 films. He is best remembered for his role as Sergeant Quirt in the 1926 silent movie What Price Glory? directed by Raoul Walsh. During the sound era, a musical comedy remake and two sequels were produced, all starring Lowe and Victor McLaglen, with the first two also directed by Raoul Walsh. Lowe reprised his role from the movies in the radio program Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, broadcast on the Blue Network September 28, 1941 - January 25, 1942, and on NBC February 13, 1942 - April 3, 1942. Despite making a smooth transition to talking pictures, by the mid 1930s he was no longer a major star, although he occasionally played leading man to the likes of Mae West and Claudette Colbert. He portrayed the young doctor trying to get out of an affair with Wallace Beery's character's wife, played by Jean Harlow, in Dinner at Eight (1933). He remained a supporting actor at the major studios while continuing in leads for such "Poverty Row" studios as Columbia Pictures, where his skills could bolster low-budget productions. He also starred in 35 episodes of the 1950s television show Front Page Detective and appeared as the elderly lead villain in the first episode of Maverick opposite James Garner in 1957.
Marriages
After his first marriage to Esther Miller ended in early 1925, Lowe met Lilyan Tashman while filming Ports of Call. Lowe and Tashman were married on September 21, 1925, before the release of the film. The two had homes in Beverly Hills and Malibu. They were married until Tashman's death from cancer at age 37 in 1934.
Seventy years after Tashman's death, author E.J. Fleming claimed Lowe was a homosexual and Tashman was a lesbian. If the claims were true, fan magazine writers and newspaper columnists made no mention of them during Tashman's lifetime or for 70 years after her death.
Lowe's third wife was costume designer Rita Kaufman. They were married from 1936 to 1950.
Filmography
The Wild Olive (1915) as Charles Conquest
The Spreading Dawn (1917) as Captain Lewis Nugent
Vive la France! (1918) as Jean Picard
Someone Must Pay (1919) as Jim Burke
Eyes of Youth (1919) as Peter Judson
The Woman Gives (1920) as Robert Milton
A Woman's Business (1920) as Johnny Lister
Someone in the House (1920) as Jim Burke
Madonnas and Men (1920) as Gordon Turner
The Devil (1921) as Paul de Veaux
My Lady's Latchkey (1921) as Nelson Smith
Living Lies (1922) as Dixon Grant
Peacock Alley (1922) as Phil Garrison
The Silent Command (1923) as Capt. Richard Decatur
In the Palace of the King (1923) as Don John
Wife in Name Only (1923) as Norman Arleigh
The White Flower (1923) as Bob Rutherford
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924) as Jack Carroll
Honor Among Men (1924) as Prince Kaloney
Barbara Frietchie (1924) as Captain William Trumbull
The Brass Bowl (1924) as Dan Maitland
East of Suez (1925) as George Tevis
Greater Than a Crown (1925) as Tom Conway
Marriage in Transit (1925) as Cyril Gordon
The Winding Stair (1925) as Paul
The Kiss Barrier (1925) as Richard March
Champion of Lost Causes (1925) as Loring
Ports of Call (1925) as Kirk Rainsford
East Lynne (1925) as Archibald Carlyle
The Fool (1925) as Daniel Gilchrist
Soul Mates (1925) as Lord Tancred
What Price Glory? (1926) as 1st Sergeant Quirt
Siberia (1926) as Leonid Petroff
The Palace of Pleasure (1926) as Ricardo Madons
Black Paradise (1926) as Graham
The Wizard (1927) as Stanley Gordon
Publicity Madness (1927) as Pete Clark
Is Zat So? (1927) as Hap Harley
One Increasing Purpose (1927) as Sim Paris
Dressed to Kill (1928) as 'Mile-Away Barry'
Outcast (1928) as Geoffrey
Happiness Ahead (1928) as Babe Stewart
In Old Arizona (1929) as Sgt. Mickey Dunn
This Thing Called Love (1929) as Robert Collings
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) as Sgt. Harry Quirt
The Painted Angel (1929) as Brood
Thru Different Eyes (1929) as Harvey Manning
Making the Grade (1929) as Herbert Littell Dodsworth
Happy Days (1929) as Show Performer
Good Intentions (1930) as David Cresson
The Bad One (1930) as Jerry Flanagan
Born Reckless (1930) as Louis Berretti
Part Time Wife (1930) as Jim Murdock
Scotland Yard (1930) as Dakin Barrolles
Transatlantic (1931) as Monty Greer
Don't Bet on Women (1931) as Roger Fallon
The Spider (1931) as Chatrand
The Cisco Kid (1931) as Sgt. Michael Patrick "Mickey" Dunn
Women of All Nations (1931) as Sergeant Harry Quirt
Men on Call (1931) as Chuck Long
The Devil Is Driving (1932) as Orville "Gabby" Denton
Misleading Lady (1932) as Jack Craigen
Chandu the Magician (1932) as Chandu
Attorney for the Defense (1932) as William J. Burton
Guilty as Hell (1932) as Russell Kirk
Dinner at Eight (1933) as Dr. Wayne Talbot
Let's Fall in Love (1933) as Ken Lane
I Love That Man (1933) as Brains Stanley
Hot Pepper (1933) as Harry Quirt
Her Bodyguard (1933) as Casey McCarthy
Gift of Gab (1934) as Philip Gabney
Bombay Mail (1934) as Inspector Dyke
No More Women (1934) as Three Time
The Great Impersonation (1935) as Sir Everend Dominey
Black Sheep (1935) as John Francis Dugan
The Great Hotel Murder (1935) as Roger Blackwood
The Best Man Wins (1935) as Toby
King Solomon of Broadway (1935) as King Solomon
Thunder in the Night (1935) as Captain Karl Torok
Grand Exit (1935) as Tom Fletcher
Under Pressure (1935) as Shocker Dugan
Mister Dynamite (1935) as "Dynamite" T.N. Thompson
Seven Sinners (1936) as Harwood
Mad Holiday (1936) as Philip Trent
The Garden Murder Case (1936) as Philo Vance
The Girl on the Front Page (1936) as "Hank" Gilman
The Squeaker (1937) as Barrabal
Espionage (1937) as Kenneth
Every Day's a Holiday (1937) as Capt. Jim McCarey
Murder on Diamond Row (1937) as Barrabal
Under Cover of Night (1937) as Christopher Cross
Newsboys' Home (1938) as Perry Warner
Secrets of a Nurse (1938) as John Dodge
The Witness Vanishes (1939) as Mark Peters
Our Neighbors – The Carters (1939) as Bill Hastings
Wolf of New York (1940) as Chris Faulkner
Honeymoon Deferred (1940) as Adam Farradene
The Crooked Road (1940) as Danny Driscoll / John Vincent / George Atwater
I Love You Again (1940) as Duke Sheldon
Men Against the Sky (1940) as Dan McLean
Double Date (1941) as Roger Baldwin
Flying Cadets (1941) as Captain Rockcliffe 'Lucky Rocky' Ames
Call Out the Marines (1942) as Harry Curtis
Klondike Fury (1942) as Dr. John Mandre
Murder in Times Square (1943) as Cory Williams
Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Ralph McCormick
The Girl in the Case (1944) as William Warner
Oh, What a Night (1944) as Rand
Dillinger (1945) as Specs Green
The Enchanted Forest (1945) as Steven Blaine
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1946) as Mr. Gregory / Lane Talbot
Good Sam (1948) as H.C. Borden
Intruder in the Dust (1950) as Gowrie twin
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as the engineer of the SS Henrietta
Wings of Eagles (1957) as Admiral Moffett
The Last Hurrah (1958) as Johnny Byrne (uncredited)
Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959) as Ned East
Heller in Pink Tights (1960) as Manfred 'Doc' Montague
References
External links
Edmund Lowe at Virtual History
1890 births
1971 deaths
American male film actors
American male musical theatre actors
American male silent film actors
Vaudeville performers
20th-century American male actors
Burials at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
Male actors from San Jose, California
Santa Clara University alumni
20th-century American singers
20th-century American male singers
American people of German descent