Edmund Penney Explained

Edmund Freeman Penney (July 26, 1926 - September 11, 2008) was an actor, director, and author in the United States.

He studied at the University of Southern California and gave a winning oration on Patrick Henry.^[1]

He made a documentary on the Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles.^[2]

He wrote The Facts on File Dictionary of Film and Broadcast Terms. He co-authored Millard Sheets : One-Man Renaissance with Janice Lovoos

Filmography

• Angel's Flight (1964) short documentary about the Angels Flight funicular in Los Angeles, California^[3]
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), co-writer^{[4] [5]}
• Walls of Fire (1971), a documentary film about Mexican muralists^[6]
• Alice Asmar, Artist (1998), writer and director
• The Dancing Prophet (1999)^[7] a documentary about dancer Ruth St. Denis^[8]

Actor

• Where Will You Hide? (1948), short film^[9]
• Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen (1951), short film as Santa Claus
• Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956 film) as High Priest^[10]
• Teenage Diary (1960), short film, as Russ Martin
• Bud and Lou (1978), television show
• The Jericho Mile (1979)
• The Grace Kelly Story (1983), television movie, as Reporter #2
• Adventures of Superman (1956), episode "Peril by Sea", as Guard

External links

• Findagrave entry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. United States. Congress. September 6, 1947. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
2. Web site: The Ed Penney AF Documentary of 1965. February 1, 2021.
3. Web site: Educational Films. September 6, 1973. University of Michigan Media Resources Center. Google Books.
4. Book: Bliss, Michael. Justified Lives: Morality & Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah. September 6, 1993. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-1823-0 . Google Books.
5. Book: Weddle, David. "If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!": The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah. March 29, 2016. Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. 978-0-8021-9008-6 . Google Books.
6. Web site: Somos. September 6, 1979. Los Padrinos of Southern California.. Google Books.
7. Book: Ziolkowski, Jan M.. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages. June 11, 2018. Open Book Publishers. 978-1-78374-436-7 . Google Books.
8. Web site: The dancing prophet / . 29 October 1999 .
9. Web site: Where Will You Hide?. September 6, 1948. Internet Archive.
10. Book: Orrison, Katherine. Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments. March 30, 1999. Vestal Press. 978-1-4617-3481-9 . Google Books.