Career
Born in Brighton in 1884, the nephew of Victorian era actor Edward Smith Willard, in 1920 Willard appeared in the plays of William Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He appeared in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew. Willard"s first film role was as the Fourth Party in.
His other film appearances include with Douglas Fairbanks and Merle Oberon, with Leslie Howard and Raymond Massey, with Bela Lugosi, Van Zeeland in with Charles Laughton and Gertrude Lawrence, the Chief Steward in with Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and The Crazy Gang, the Chief of German Intelligence in with Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt, with Max Miller, with Clifford Evans and Deborah Kerr, and with Robert Donat and Robert Morley.
His television roles included appearances in Fabian of the Yard (1954), The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956). Willard married Mabel Theresa Tebbs (1885-1974) in 1907 at Steyning in Sussex.
Edmund Willard died in 1956 in Kingston, London, aged 71. The Stars Look Down.
