George Edwards (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian actor and producer
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Place of Birth: Kent Town, South Australia, Australia
About George Edwards (actor)
- George Edwards (born as Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia; died 28 August 1953) was an Australian actor and producer. Edwards was a pioneer of the radio serial in Australia.
- Prior to that he was a comedian, vaudeville artist, acrobatic dancer and stage performer.
- It is claimed that he changed his name from Harold Parks to George Edwards at the behest of Edward Branscombe, who was putting together an up-market act and did not want anyone associated with low-brow music hall, and that he took the name from English theatrical impresario George Edwards.
- He performed in a radio drama adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr.
- Jekyll and Mr.
- Hyde. Edwards' first wife was Margaret Rose Wilson, whom he married on 6 August 1907.
- They had a daughter.On 9 May 1925, he married Molly D Hughes in Sydney, and in 1929 was a featured entertainer on the Sydney Show Boat.
- Apparently she died.His third wife was Helen Dorothy Malmgrom (born 22 August 1909), who had worked with him on the Sydney Showboat.
- She changed her name to Nell Stirling.
- They were married in Haberfield on 29 March 1934.
- Together they appeared in many live radio productions, including the long-running Dad and Dave from Snake Gully series in which Edwards played Dad (and many other roles), and Stirling played Mabel (Dave's wife).
- Sumner Locke Elliott wrote a number of radio plays for Edward's company.Nell had a daughter from her first marriage, and one with Edwards, born in April 1941. Edwards and Stirling were divorced in July 1948, and on 9 November she married her accountant, Alexander George Atwill.
- Nell died of an accidental overdose of carbitral capsules on 10 November 1951 at her Vaucluse home.Edwards married once more.
- His fourth wife was Coral Lansbury, who had worked as a radio scriptwriter and actor.
- The couple married on 20 February 1953 at the Registrar-General's office in Sydney but Edwards died six months later on 28 August at the Scottish Hospital in Paddington.
- Lansbury soon afterwards married Bruce Bligh Turnbull.
- and in October 1954 gave birth to their son Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
- She later become a notable English literature academic.
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