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About
Edward Sedgwick
Born:
1892-11-07,
Galveston,
Texas,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1953-03-07
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Edward Sedgwick

Edward Sedgwick was a film director, writer, actor and producer.

He was born in Galveston, Texas, the son of Edward Sedgwick, Sr. and Josephine Walker, both stage actors. Young Edward Sedgwick joined his show business family as one of the Five Sedgwicks, a vaudeville act. The two other family members were Edward’s twin sisters Eileen and Josie Sedgwick, who both later pursued successful silent-movie acting careers. Sedgwick broke into films as a comedian in 1915, frequently cast as a zany baseball player. He then became a serial director six years later in 1921, and moved on to the Tom Mix western unit. Sedgwick’s love of baseball came in handy for the ballpark sequences of Mix’s Stepping Out, Buck Jones? Hit and Run, William Haines? Slide, Kelly, Slide, Buster Keaton?s The Cameraman, and Robert Young?s Death on the Diamond.

Sedgwick signed with MGM in the late 1920s. There, he found a kindred spirit in fellow baseball buff Buster Keaton. Sedgwick directed all of Keaton?s MGM features, both sound and silent: The Cameraman, Spite Marriage, Free and Easy, Dough Boys, Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, Speak Easily, Sidewalks of New York, and What! No Beer?. In 1936 Sedgwick briefly became a producer-director at Hal Roach Studios. There, he made Mister Cinderella and Pick a Star, both starring Jack Haley. The latter film featured a guest appearance by Laurel and Hardy.

Considered a relic of a bygone era by the 1940s, Sedgwick had fewer opportunities to direct. When Laurel and Hardy returned to MGM in late 1942, Sedgwick was chosen to direct them in Air Raid Wardens. It was his last assignment for five years, but he remained on the MGM payroll, sharing an office with the almost-as-idle Buster Keaton.

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