Edward Brophy
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Edward Santree Brophy was an American character actor and comedian, as well as an assistant director and second unit director during the 1920s. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequent
Brophy in Renegade Girl (1946)
Edward Brophy (center) with Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931)
Calling Philo Vance (1940) Edward Brophy (pictured right) with James Stephenson
Freaks (1932 film)
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Freaks is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, and Roscoe Ates.
Edward Brophy
…films for MGM cast him in the same vein: comic foils in four more Keaton features; the loyal fight manager in The Champ (1931); a circus proprietor in Freaks (1932); and as a hired gun in The Thin Man (1934). By 1940 Brophy was so identified as a Runyonesque character with a Brooklynese speech pattern that…
1932 theatrical release poster
Critic Jon Towlson notes that the everyday interaction between the able-bodied and disabled circus performers serves to uphold an anti-eugenics sentiment.
Johnny Eck as Half-Boy and Angelo Rossitto as Angeleno
Freaks lobby card