[3] After this film, he moved to radio broadcasting and producing until reviving his screen career in the late 1950s, mainly appearing in made for TV Movies and serials.
He returned to Australia in 1924 and joined the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne,[5] and later, with his wife Molly, ran Sydney's (Royal) Academy of Dramatic Arts.
[6] In 1929, he began a career in radio when he was asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (then Commission) to produce a play for the network.
As an author of one of the first successful variety shows, he had a very prominent career in the sector as a writer, producer and director, as well as appearing in productions as an actor.
The series depicted the life of a middle-class couple played by Edward and his wife, Mary Howell (professionally billed as Therese Desmond).