Edwin Arden Edwin Arden Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright. Arden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mary Berkley Hunter and Arden Richard Smith.. After a common-school education he travelled west and worked in a number of different jobs, including as a mine-helper, cowboy, railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he made his debut as an actor with Thomas Keene's Shakespeare company. The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Their only child, daughter Mildred Arden, also became an actor. Around this
Jane Arden (actress) title role on several occasions when Vanessa Redgrave was indisposed - in the West End and in Washington DC. Arden's television credits include "Lost Empires" with Colin Firth and Laurence Olivier, "The Strauss Dynasty" a biography of Johann Strauss with John Gielgud, and Edward Fox and she played Mary Ellen in the Catherine Cookson's series "A Dinner of Herbs". In 2009 Jane started her own theatre company; British Actors Group touring dinner theatre and bespoke productions. The company is going to the Middle and Far East this Autumn. Jane Arden (actress) Jane Arden (fl. since 1980s) is an English actress.