E. E. Clive

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1879-08-26 (61 years old)

Deathday

1940-06-06

Place of Birth

Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

E. E. Clive

Biography

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...

Acting

1935

Bride of Frankenstein

as Burgomaster

1933

The Invisible Man

as Constable Jaffers

1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Sir Harry Lorridaile

1936

Dracula's Daughter

as Sergeant Wilkes

1936

Libeled Lady

as Fishing Instructor

1939

The Little Princess

as Mr. Barrows

1934

Charlie Chan in London

as Det. Sgt. Thacker

1934

The Gay Divorcee

as Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)

1940

Pride and Prejudice

as Sir William Lucas

1939

Rose of Washington Square

as Barouche Driver

1937

Personal Property

as Cosgrove Dabney

1934

The Little Minister

as Sheriff Greer

1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Sir Humphrey Harcourt

1937

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

as "Tenny" Tennison

1936

Tarzan Escapes

as Masters

1935

Captain Blood

as Clerk of the Court

1939

1940

Congo Maisie

as Horace Snell

1936

Lloyd's of London

as Magistrate

1935

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Mayor Thomas Sapsea

1937

It's Love I'm After

as First Butler

1936

Isle of Fury

as Dr. Hardy

1937

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

as 'Tenny' Tennison

1936

Love Before Breakfast

as Yacht Captain (uncredited)

1938

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as 'Tenny' Tennison

1940

The Earl of Chicago

as Mr. Redwood

1936

Piccadilly Jim

as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan

1939

Raffles

as Barraclough

1934

1936

Cain and Mabel

as Charles Fendwick

1937

Live, Love and Learn

as Mr. Palmiston

1936

1934

The Poor Rich

as Lord Fetherstone

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Lord Henry Hathaway

1936

The Dark Hour

as Foot, the Butler

1936

1934

Long Lost Father

as Spot Hawkins

1935

1939

Man About Town

as Hotchkiss

1934

Father Brown, Detective

as Sergeant Dawes

1935

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as London Cabbie John Clayton

1936

Palm Springs

as Morgan

1938

The First Hundred Years

as Chester Blascomb

1935

David Copperfield

as Sheriff's Man (uncredited)

1937

Ready, Willing and Able

as Sir Samuel Buffington

1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Lord Nigel Braemer

1935

Kind Lady

as Grammaphone Man (uncredited)

1939

1936

The White Angel

as Dr. Smith (uncredited)

1935

Page Miss Glory

as Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)

1937

1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

as Port Commandant General (uncredited)

1932

1938

Kidnapped

as Minister MacDougall

1937

1936

1936

All American Chump

as . Montgomery Brantley

1936

All American Chump

as Montgomery Brantley

1938

The Last Warning

as Major Barclay

1939

I'm from Missouri

as Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood

1937

Love Under Fire

as Captain Bowden

1938

Gateway

as Room Steward

1940

Foreign Correspondent

as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)

1940

Flowing Gold

as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)

1935

Remember Last Night?

as Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)

1936

Camille

as Saint Gaudens (uncredited)

1934

1937

1935

1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

as Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)

1940

Adventure in Diamonds

as Mr. MacPherson

1934

Riptide

as Major Mills (uncredited)

1935

A Feather in Her Hat

as Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)

1935

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)

1936

Show Boat

as Sir Arthur

1935

A Tale of Two Cities

as Judge in 'Old Bailey'

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