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Dignified British-born stage actor Edmund Elton appeared in the original Broadway production of Rex Beach's The Spoilers back in 1908. Moonlighting in movies between stage work, Elton also played Capulet in the Metro version of Romeo and Juliet (1916), but his main screen career came in the 1930s and '40s when he turned up in such diverse fare as Stella Dallas (1937), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940, as Rutledge), and even Gene Autry's Back in the Saddle (1941). Elton's final Broadway appearance came in 1931, when he supported Helen MacKellar in the short-lived Bloody Laughter. He retired in 1941 and passed away a decade later.