- Last name very often misspelled in credits as 'Peil', 'Peils', 'Piels', 'Pail', or 'Pell.'
- Father of Edward Peil Jr..
- American character actor, in films from silent days as a leading man with the Lubin company. Later a noted western villain and small part supporting player in low-budget oaters for Poverty Row outfits PRC and Monogram..
- Graduate of Notre Dame University.
- Was in seven Oscar Best Picture nominees: In Old Arizona (1928), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Captains Courageous (1937), The Awful Truth (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Blossoms in the Dust (1941) and The Pride of the Yankees (1942). You Can't Take It with You won Best Picture of 1938.
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