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name: "Harry E. Edington"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-e-edington"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 March 1888"
died: "10 March 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:42:47.800270+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harry E. Edington

Producer. Born 16 March 1888 in Washington, Kansas, USA. Died 10 March 1949.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 March 1888, Washington, Kansas, USA
- **Died:** 10 March 1949
- **Active:** 1940–1941
- **Also known as:** Harry Edington
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15456592, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249362/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69514

## 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.

*Sources: catalog.afi.com, imdb.com, the.hitchcock.zone, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Suspicion* (1941), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/suspicion.md)
- *Kitty Foyle* (1940), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/kitty-foyle.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Suspicion* (1941), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/suspicion.md)
- *Mr. & Mrs. Smith* (1941), Executive Producer
- *Kitty Foyle* (1940), Executive Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/kitty-foyle.md)
- *They Knew What They Wanted* (1940), Executive Producer
- *Dance, Girl, Dance* (1940), Executive Producer
- *Lucky Partners* (1940), Executive Producer
- *Green Hell* (1940), Producer

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