Edwin Maxwell (9 February 1886 – 13 August 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a pompous or dignified bearing.

Prior to that, he was an actor on the Broadway stage and a director of plays.

[2] In the late 1920s, Maxwell directed and acted in plays with the New York Theater Guild Repertory Company.

Maxwell appeared in four Academy Award-winning Best Pictures: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Maxwell married actress Betty Alden.