An image from The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, one of the productions that also features El Brendel.
El Brendel
March 24, 1890 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
El Brendel (born Elmer Goodfellow Brendel), nicknamed "The Synthetic Swede", was an American stage, film, and television actor. Although of German and Irish parentage, he adopted the comedic persona of a Swede who speaks fractured English.
