El Brendel

• Birth year: 1890

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• Death year: 1964

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• Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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.