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El Brendel
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Actor Born: March 25, 1890 in Philadelphia, PA Death: April 9, 1964 in Hollywood, CA Biography:American comedian "El Brendel" spent several years in vaudeville honing his comic characterization as a Swedish simpleton, given to such expletives as "Yumpin' Yiminy!" In real life, Brendel was of German heritage, and spoke with no accent whatsoever, but his Swede character earned him so many laughs that he decided to stick with it. He entered movies during the silent era, making his bow in "The Campus Flirt" (1926), but it was in the early talkie musicals produced at Fox Studios that he truly made his mark. From 1929 through 1931, Brendel was in virtually every major Fox production, usually as comic relief; once in a while, as in the famous "futuristic" musical "Just Imagine" (1930), he was the star, and a very popular one. The movies used up Brendel's material very rapidly, however, and before long audiences wearied of his tiny bag of tricks. By the end of the 1930s, he was reduced to minor roles... Full Biography
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