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Actor Born: May 10, 1910 in Philadelphia, PA Biography:Despite his small-town charm and white-bread handsomeness, there was a queasy quality in the performances of American actor "Edward Norris" that suggested a basic inner weakness. As such, he was ideally cast as the average Joe accused of a crime he didn't commit, or as the outwardly helpful chap who turned out to be the calculating murderer in the last reel. A former reporter, Norris began making films in the early '30s. He did everything from "Our Gang" comedies ("Teacher's Beau" [1935]) to Garbo features ("Queen Christina" [1933]). His most conspicuous "innocent victim" role was as the schoolteacher falsely convicted of murdering high school student "Lana Turner" in "They Won't Forget" (1937). Norris' mockery of a trial and subsequent lynching were patterned after the real-life fate of Leo Frank; that 1915 lynching was obviously fueled by anti-Semitism, but Warners hedged its bets by casting the... Full Biography
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