{{Short description|American actor (1880–1954)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Coxen | image = Edward Coxen 001.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Coxen in 1916 | birth_name = Albert Edward Coxen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|8|8|df=y}} | birth_place = Southwark, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|11|21|1880|8|8|df=y}} | death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1911–1941 | spouse = Edith Borella (1914 – ?) }} '''Albert Edward Coxen'''<ref name="bd">{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=20 May 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0905-8 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Edward+Coxen%22+actor&pg=PA77 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> (8 August 1880 – 21 November 1954) was an English-born American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during his career.
==Personal life== Coxen was born in London, England.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who's Who in Movies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59313012/edward-coxen/ |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=6 August 1916 |page=33|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> He came to the United States as a child and lived much of his life in San Francisco.<ref name="jwc">{{cite news |title=Picture audiences are his critics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59313365/edward-coxen/ |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=The Jasper Weekly Courier |date=7 September 1917 |location=Indiana, Jasper |page=1|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
On 31 March 1884 whilst settled in San Francisco, Sarah Coxen gave birth to Ed Coxen's only sibling, a sister, Rosa A Coxen. On 14 October 1914, at the age of 33, he married Edith Victoria Borella in Los Angeles,<ref>Family Search.org</ref> a 24-year-old<ref>According to her California death record her birth is given as 25 November 1890.</ref> film actress born in Switzerland<ref>In 1920, the US census gives her birthplace, whereas her death record indicates 'other country'</ref> of Swiss parents. Borella, who also used the screen names of Eda, Ada and Aida, had played minor parts alongside Coxen in films such as ''Restitution'', where Winifred Greenwood played his love interest. Edith Borella Coxen died in Los Angeles on 6 March 1974<ref>California Deaths, 1940 – 1997. Ancestry.com.</ref>
After studying engineering, Coxen became a prospector before he eventually became an actor.<ref name="jwc" />
== Career == Coxen's acting career began in 1906<ref>{{cite journal |title=Telling what popular players did prior to becoming screen favorites |journal=Picture-Play Magazine |date=October 1916 |volume=V |issue=2 |page=261 |url=https://archive.org/stream/pictureplaymagaz05unse#page/n278/mode/1up |access-date=15 September 2020}}</ref> at the Majestic Theatre in San Francisco. He continued to perform with stock companies until he began working in films.<ref name="jwc" /> He appeared in more than 290 films, beginning in 1912 and ending in 1943 with ''Air Raid Wardens''. Much of his work was in melodramas and Westerns.<ref name="bd" /> While he had numerous leading roles during the 1910s, he had become confined to supporting roles or even uncredited bit parts in his later career.
==Death== On 21 November 1954, Coxen died at his longtime home, 464 N Manhattan Place, Los Angeles.<ref>California Death Records 1940 – 1997</ref> He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. This brief obituary<ref>Los Angeles Times22 & 24 November 1954.</ref> for Albert Edward Coxen appeared shortly after his interment: 'Mr Coxen started his career at San Francisco and worked in both silent and talking motion pictures. He played with Rudolf Valentino, Ruth Roland and William S Hart. He leaves his widow Mrs Edith Victoria Coxen and a sister Mrs Rosa A Corder'.
==Selected filmography== thumb|''Repaid'' (1916) {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Mesquite's Gratitude'' (1911) * ''He Who Laughs Last'' (1911) * ''The Girl Bandits' Hoodoo'' (1912) * ''A Hospital Hoax'' (1912) * ''The Pony Express Girl'' (1912) * ''A Rose of Old Mexico'' (1913) * ''The Shriner's Daughter'' (1913) * ''The Power of Light'' (1914) * ''A Soul Astray'' (1914) * ''The Lure of the Sawdust'' (1914) * ''The Butterfly'' (1914) * ''This Is th' Life'' (1914) * ''The Song of the Sea Shell'' (1914) * ''The Wrong Birds'' (1914) * ''The Redemption of a Pal'' (1914) * ''A Slice of Life'' (1914) * ''Spider Barlow Cuts In'' (1915) * ''The Water Carrier of San Juan'' (1915) * ''Spider Barlow Meets Competition'' (1916) * ''The Dreamer'' (1916) * ''A Modern Sphinx'' (1916) * ''Beware of Strangers'' (1917) * ''Who Shall Take My Life?'' (1917) * ''The Bearded Fisherman'' (1917) * ''The Curse of Eve'' (1917) * ''Madam Who?'' (1918) * ''Carmen of the Klondike'' (1918) * ''A Man's Man'' (1918) * ''A Law Unto Herself'' (1918) *''Within the Cup'' (1918) * ''Go West, Young Man'' (1918) * ''Blindfolded'' (1918) * ''The Bells'' (1918) * ''Quicksand'' (1918) * ''Desert Gold'' (1919) * ''More Deadly Than The Male'' (1919) * ''In Old Kentucky'' (1919) * ''The Amazing Woman'' (1920) * ''Witch's Gold'' (1920) * ''Honor Bound'' (1920) * ''The Path She Chose'' (1920) * ''No Man's Woman'' (1921) * ''Desperate Trails'' (1921) * ''The Veiled Woman'' (1922) * ''The Stranger of the Hills'' (1922) * ''The Flying Dutchman'' (1923) * ''Temporary Marriage'' (1923) * ''A Man's Man'' (1923) * ''One Glorious Night'' (1924) * ''Flashing Spurs'' (1924) * ''The Man Without a Country'' (1925) * ''Cold Nerve'' (1925) * ''Return of Grey Wolf'' (1926) * ''The Test of Donald Norton'' (1926) * ''The Man in the Shadow'' (1926) * ''God's Great Wilderness'' (1927) * ''Galloping Glory'' (1927) * ''Galloping Fury'' (1927) * ''The Spoilers'' (1930) * ''Young Blood'' (Uncredited, 1932) * ''The Fighting Champ'' (Uncredited, 1932) * ''The Trail Drive'' (Uncredited, 1933) * ''Gun Justice'' (Uncredited, 1933) * ''Wheels of Destiny'' (1934) * ''Smoking Guns'' (1934) * ''Five Bad Men'' (1935) * ''The Ghost Rider'' (1935) * ''Westward Ho'' (Uncredited, 1935) * ''Code of the Range'' (1936) * ''The Sunday Round-Up'' (Uncredited, 1936) * ''Riders of the Dawn'' (Uncredited, 1937) * ''Thunder Trail'' (Uncredited, 1937) * ''West of Rainbow's End'' (1938) * ''South of Arizona'' (1938) * ''Texas Stampede'' (1939) * ''Down the Wyoming Trail'' (1939) * ''Pioneers of the Frontier'' (1940) * ''One Million B.C.'' (1940) * ''Across the Sierras'' (Uncredited, 1941) * ''King of Dodge City'' (Uncredited, 1941) {{div col end}}
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