Edward Lionel Pape (17 April 1877 – 21 October 1944) was an English-born stage and screen actor.
The beginning of his screen career goes back to the silent film era.
[1] Between the 1930s and early 1940s, he played supporting roles and bit parts in over 50 Hollywood movies.
He played in numerous films of directors like John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor.
Pape portrayed Katharine Hepburn's butler in The Philadelphia Story (1940) and appeared as the oppressive coal mine owner in How Green Was My Valley (1941).