Eddie Polo

Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austrian-American actor of the silent era.

[1] He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 1 February 1875.

Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the United States and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s.

He was the father of actress Malvina Polo (1903–2000), best remembered as the mentally handicapped girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922).

His brother was the acrobat, actor and makeup artist Sam Polo (1872–1966).