by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
A dark-haired stock company actor from San Francisco, Edward Cecil enjoyed some popularity as a supporting actor in the late 1910s and early '20s playing such roles as Richard Hare in East Lynne (1915) and the inventor in the espionage melodrama The Kaiser's Shadow (1918). Playing minor roles for the remainder of the silent era, Cecil became an extra after the changeover to sound.
