El Brendel
Elmer Goodfellow Brendel
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An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania who entered vaudeville in 1913 as a German-dialect comic, he switched to a simple Swedish immigrant act when anti-German feeling rose, a persona that shaped his film work. After a 1926 contract with Famous Players, he appeared in eight pictures, most famously providing comic relief in the Academy Award-winning Wings (1927). A 1929 deal with Fox let his…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
