Biography
Harry E. Edington (also credited as Harry Edington) was an American film producer and former talent agent. Born on 16 March 1888 in Washington, Kansas, he died on 10 March 1949 in Beverly Hills, California. He began his career in production management on silent films such as Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and later worked as an agent representing actresses including Greta Garbo and Barbara Kent, whom he married in 1934.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s Edington moved into producing, primarily at RKO Radio Pictures. He received producer or executive producer credits on films including Green Hell (1940), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), Lucky Partners (1940), They Knew What They Wanted (1940), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Suspicion (1941). He collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on the latter two titles.
