Edison, the Man
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Director Clarence Brown
Trailer
Cast
Irving Bacon
Sheriff
Harry Humphrey
Broker
Charles Lane
Second Lecturer
Grant Mitchell
Snade
George Lessey
Toastmaster
Fritzi Brunette
Minor Role
Eddie Gribbon
Cashier
Eric Mayne
Party Guest
Cyril Ring
Reporter
Charles Coburn
General Powell
Milton Parsons
'Acid' Graham
Addison Richards
Mr. Johnson
Donald Douglas
Jordan
Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell
Milton Kibbee
Workman
George Meader
Minister
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
George Chandler
Gold Exchange Clerk
Harold Minjir
Blair
Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison
Wilfred Lucas
Broker
Forbes Murray
Broker
Emmett Vogan
Secretary
Billy Bletcher
Reporter
Walter Fenner
Man at Banquet
Gene Reynolds
Jimmy Price
John Dilson
Broker
Hale Hamilton
Broker
Edward Hearn
Broker
Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt
Arthur Aylesworth
Bigelow
Hooper Atchley
Broker
Maurice Costello
Broker
Erville Alderson
First Lecturer
Arthur Stuart Hull
Broker
Edward LeSaint
Doctor
Louis Natheaux
Broker
Paul Hurst
Sheriff
Nell Craig
Woman
William H. O'Brien
Waiter
Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart
Harry Strang
Minor Role
Charles Trowbridge
Clark
Harlan Briggs
Bisbee
Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
Jimmy Conlin
Waiter
Frank Faylen
Galbreath
George Ovey
Lamplighter
Lloyd Whitlock
Broker
Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom
Harry C. Bradley
Preacher
Edgar Dearing
Policeman
Edward Keane
Lecturer
Peter Godfrey
Ashton
Ann Gillis
Nancy Grey
Edward Earle
Broker
Henry Travers
Ben Els