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1993 · Drama · History
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Film / 1940
Edison, the Man
Directed by
Clarence Brown
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
The story
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Cast
Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
Henry TraversBen Els
Felix BressartMichael Simon
Peter GodfreyAshton
Guy D'EnneryLundstrom
Byron FoulgerEdwin Hall
Milton Parsons'Acid' Graham
Arthur AylesworthBigelow
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Gene ReynoldsJimmy Price
Addison RichardsMr. Johnson
Grant MitchellSnade
Paul HurstSheriff
George LesseyToastmaster
Jay WardJohn Schofield
Ann GillisNancy Grey
Erville AldersonFirst Lecturer
William ArnoldMinor Role
Hooper AtchleyBroker
Irving BaconSheriff
Arthur BelascoBroker
Edward BibyParty Guest
Billy BletcherReporter
Harry C. BradleyPreacher
Harlan BriggsBisbee
Fritzi BrunetteMinor Role
John ButlerMechanic
James CarlisleParty Guest
George ChandlerGold Exchange Clerk
Howard ChaseMinor Role
James ConatyParty Guest
Jimmy ConlinWaiter
Nick CopelandReporter
Maurice CostelloBroker
Nell CraigWoman
Jack DaleyMinor Role
Edgar DearingPoliceman
Helen DicksonMinor Role
John DilsonBroker
Donald DouglasJordan
Edward EarleBroker
Frank FaylenGalbreath
Walter FennerMan at Banquet
Eddie GribbonCashier
Hale HamiltonBroker
Sam HarrisParty Guest
Edward HearnBroker
Arthur Stuart HullBroker
Harry HumphreyBroker
Edward KeaneLecturer
Eve KendallMarion Estelle Edison
Milton KibbeeWorkman
Charles LaneSecond Lecturer
Edward LeSaintDoctor
Wilfred LucasBroker
Tom MahoneyPoliceman
Eric MayneParty Guest
Ralph McCulloughReporter
George MeaderMinister
Harold MinjirBlair
Bruce MitchellCoachman
Hans MoebusParty Guest
Edmund MortimerParty Guest
Forbes MurrayBroker
Louis NatheauxBroker
Alex NovinskyParty Guest
William H. O'BrienWaiter
George OveyLamplighter
Thomas PogueMinor Role
Alexander PollardButler
Cyril RingReporter
Count StefenelliParty Guest
Harry StrangMinor Role
Charles TrowbridgeClark
Emmett VoganSecretary
Charles WaldronFirst Commissioner
Frank WhitbeckTrailer Narrator (voice)
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