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E. E. Clive

Actor / Theatre Director | * 08/28/1879 († 60, 06/06/1940) | Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
Edward Erskholme Clive (28 August 1879 – 6 June 1940) was a Welsh stage actor and director who had a prolific acting career in Britain and America. He also played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood movies between 1933 and his death. ()

Edward Erskholme Clive was a Welsh stage actor and director who had a prolific acting career in Britain and America. He also played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood movies between 1933 and his death. E. E. Clive was born on 28 August 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. Clive studied for a medical career, and had completed four years of medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital before switching his focus to acting at age 22. Touring the provinces for a decade, Clive became an expert at virtually every sort of regional dialect in the British Isles. He moved to the US in 1912, where after working in the Orpheum vaudeville circuit he set up his own stock company in Boston. By the 1920s, his company was operating in Hollywood; among his repertory players were such up-and-comers as Rosalind Russell. He also worked at the Broadway in several plays. E. E. Clive made his film debut as a village police constable in 1933's The Invisible Man with Claude Rains, then spent the next seven years showing up in wry supporting and bit parts, where he often portrayed comical versions of English stereotypes. He often played butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies during his short film career. Though his roles were often small, Clive was a well-known and prolific character actor of his time. Among his best-known roles was the incompetent Burgomaster in James Whale's horror classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He was a semi-regular as Tenny the Butler in Paramount Pictures' Bulldog Drummond B series, starring John Howard; he also played butlers in other movies like Bachelor Mother with David Niven and Ginger Rogers. In 1939, Clive appeared in The Little Princess as the lawyer Mr. Barrows, and the first two entries of the classic Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone. One of Clive's last roles was Sir William Lucas in the 1940 literature adaption Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. E. E. Clive died on 6 June 1940, of a heart ailment, in his Hollywood home. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and their child. Clive was a member of the Euclid lodge of Freemasons in Boston.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Movies with E. E. Clive as Actor(87)

as (archive footage)1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Mr. MacPherson1940 Adventure in Diamonds
as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)1940 Foreign Correspondent
as Horace Snell1940 Congo Maisie
as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)1940 Flowing Gold
as Mr. Redwood1940 The Earl of Chicago
as Sir William Lucas1940 Pride and Prejudice
as Barraclough1939 Raffles
as London Cabbie John Clayton1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Butler1939 Bachelor Mother
as Hotchkiss1939 Man About Town
as Mr. Barrows1939 The Little Princess
as Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood1939 I'm from Missouri
as Barouche Driver1939 Rose of Washington Square
as Port Commandant General1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Inspector Bristol1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Chester Blascomb1938 The First Hundred Years
as 'Tenny' Tennison1938 Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as Minister MacDougall1938 Kidnapped
as Room Steward1938 Gateway
as Major Barclay1938 The Last Warning
as 'Tenny' Tennison1937 Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
as Bilge1937 Maid of Salem
as Lord Nigel Braemer1937 Beg, Borrow or Steal
as "Tenny" Tennison1937 Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Captain Bowden1937 Love Under Fire
as Cosgrove Dabney1937 Personal Property
as First Butler1937 It's Love I'm After
as Cabby1937 On the Avenue
as Wilbur1937 Danger - Love at Work
as Sir Samuel Buffington1937 Ready, Willing and Able
as Mr. Palmiston1937 Live, Love and Learn
as Guide1937 Night Must Fall
as Stiles1937 They Wanted to Marry
as Sir Arthur1936 Show Boat
as Sir Harry Lorridaile1936 Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Foot, the Butler1936 The Dark Hour
as Charles Fendwick1936 Cain and Mabel
as Masters1936 Tarzan Escapes
as Detective Sergeant Wilkes1936 Dracula's Daughter
as Fishing Instructor1936 Libeled Lady
as Sir Humphrey Harcourt1936 The Charge of the Light Brigade
as King1936 Trouble for Two
as Saint Gaudens (uncredited)1936 Camille
as . Montgomery Brantley1936 All American Chump
as Montgomery Brantley1936 All American Chump
as Barkins1936 Ticket to Paradise
as Dr. Hardy1936 Isle of Fury
as Lord Henry Hathaway1936 The Unguarded Hour
as Walker1936 The Golden Arrow
as Morgan1936 Palm Springs
as Dr. Smith (uncredited)1936 The White Angel
as Magistrate1936 Lloyd's of London
as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan1936 Piccadilly Jim
as Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)1935 Remember Last Night?
as McIntosh1935 Atlantic Adventure
as Crane1935 Stars Over Broadway
as Bürgomaster (uncredited)1935 The Bride of Frankenstein
as Coachman1935 3 Kids and a Queen
as Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)1935 Gold Diggers of 1935
as Sheriff's Man (uncredited)1935 David Copperfield
as Clerk of the Court1935 Captain Blood
as Mayor Thomas Sapsea1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)1935 Page Miss Glory
as Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)1935 A Feather in Her Hat
as Jevons1935 We're in the Money
as Lord Holloway1935 The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Grammaphone Man (uncredited)1935 Kind Lady
as Spot Hawkins1934 Long Lost Father
as London Bobbie1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Lord Fetherstone1934 The Poor Rich
as Det. Sgt. Thacker1934 Charlie Chan in London
as Major Mills (uncredited)1934 Riptide
as Sheriff Greer1934 The Little Minister
as Chayne1934 One More River
as Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)1934 The Gay Divorcee
as Sergeant Dawes1934 Father Brown, Detective
as Constable Jaffers1933 The Invisible Man
as Steward1932 Cheaters at Play

Full Name: Edward Clive
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 08/28 1879 (August) in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Thursday, 06/06 1940 (June) in North Hollywood (aged: 60)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Other names for E. E. Clive (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Edward Erskholme Clive"
"Edward E. Clive"
E. E. Clive frequently works together with these people:
Douglas Shearer (17x, Crew)
Cedric Gibbons (15x, Crew)
Forrester Harvey (13x, Actor)
Edmund Mortimer (12x, Actor)
Reginald Denny (12x, Actor)
Charles Irwin (12x, Actor)
Edwin B. Willis (12x, Crew)
Eily Malyon (12x, Actress)
Charles Coleman (11x, Actor)
Leonard Mudie (11x, Actor)
Thomas Little (11x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:320473, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024