Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.

Edward Arnold, nascut Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider (Nova York, 18 de febrer de 1890 − Encino, Califòrnia, 26 d'abril de 1956), va ser un actor estatunidenc. Arnold va treballar en unes 150 pel·lícules.