Günther Edward Arnold Schneider was an American actor of the stage and screen.
Personal life
Arnold was born on February 18, 1890, in Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants Elizabeth and Carl Schneider. His schooling came at the East Side Settlement House.

Arnold was married three times: to Harriet Marshall , with whom he had three children—Elizabeth, Jane and William ; to Olive Emerson , and to Cleo McLain .

Acting career
Stage
Interested in acting since his youth , Arnold made his professional stage debut in 1907. He had important roles in several plays on Broadway in the 1920's and 1930's. Among them is the 1927 revival of The Jazz Singer, with Arnold as the second lead to the star, George Jessel.

Film
He found work as an extra for Essanay Studios and World Studios, before landing his first significant role in 1916's The Misleading Lady. He returned to the stage in 1919, and did not appear in movies again until his talkie debut in Okay America! . He recreated one of his stage roles in one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark . His role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim boosted him to stardom. He reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian Russell. He played a similar role in The Toast of New York , another fictionalized version of real-life business chicanery, for which he was billed above Cary Grant on posters, with his name in much larger letters.

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