Snitz Edwards (born Edward Neumann, 1 January 1868 – 1 May 1937) was a stage and character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s. He acted alongside popular screen actors including Rudolph Valentino, Clara Kimball Young, Douglas Fairbanks, and many others.^[1]

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Snitz Edwards
Edwards in 1920s
Born	Edward Neumann January 1, 1868 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	May 1, 1937 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Unknown (1889-??; divorced) Eleanor Taylor (1906-1937; his death)
Children	3

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He was born Edward Neumann into a Jewish household on New Year's Day 1868 in Budapest, Hungary (then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire).

Edwards immigrated to the United States and became a successful Broadway stage actor during the early twentieth century. His first show was the musical comedy Little Red Riding Hood, which opened on January 8, 1900.

He often appeared in the first decade of the 20th century on Broadway in productions for such prominent stage directors as Arthur Hammerstein and Charles Frohman. He traveled with touring companies across the United States and in South America. On one trip, the company manager absconded with the box office receipts, leaving Snitz and the rest of the marooned troupers to find their way across Panama to catch a steamship back to New York City. In later years, Snitz told of touring cow towns in the American West where boardinghouses had signs saying that Jews, Indians and Irish were acceptable, but not actors.^{[citation needed]}

Edwards was married to actress Eleanor Taylor, and the couple had three daughters: Cricket, Evelyn and Marian. Edwards was a popular Hollywood personality, and he and Eleanor hosted lively parties as well as being guests of Marion Davies at San Simeon Castle.

Edwards died of natural causes on May 1, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69. His wife, Eleanor, continued to act as a dress extra until World War II, when she volunteered at the Hollywood Canteen. Snitz's and Eleanor's three daughters continued careers in the movie industry: Cricket was an executive for Carl Foreman and for Columbia Pictures; Evelyn was a writer, story analyst, and story editor for MGM and CBS; and Marian (married to writer Irwin Shaw) produced numerous plays in Europe. Eleanor died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Calabasas, California, in 1968.