Ernest Torrence
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1878-06-24 (55 years old)
Deathday
1933-05-15
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known As
Ernest Torrance-Thomson
Ernest Torrence
Biography
He was the man you loved to hiss. This towering (6' 4"), highly imposing character star with cold, hollow, beady eyes and a huge, protruding snout would go on to become one of the silent screen's finest arch villains. Born Ernest Thayson Torrence-Thompson on June 26, 1878, in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was, unlikely enough, an exceptional pianist and operatic baritone. A graduate of the Stuttgart Conservatory, Edinburgh Academy before earning a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music, he toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as "The Emerald Isle" (1901) and "The Talk of the Town" (1905) before serious voc...
Acting
1928
as William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield Sr.
1919
as Abner (as Ernest Torrance)
1933
as Eli Kirk (Julie's father)
1926
as Mr. Clayton
1923
as 'Devil' Jud Tolliver
1923
as Clopin
1926
as Joe Easter
1926
as Hassan
1931
as Romance
1928
as Captain Mark Shore
1931
as Bill Jackson
1929
as Jim MacDonald
1923
as Cousin Egbert Floud
1929
as Steve
1922
as Solomon Mahaffy
1929
as Dr. Ballou
1932
as Professor James Moriarty
1931
as Potter
1929
as Uncle Ben Murchison
1931
as Chief Bosuns Mate Scotty McTavish
1929
as Uncle Pio
1928
as Ivan
1999
as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
1930
as Esteban
1931
as Mr. Jim Rellence
1942
as Self (archive footage)
1927
as Captain of the 'Panther'
1931
as Blackie Daw
1930
as Sir Jasper Standish
1923
as Jackson
1930
as John Patrick O'Brien
1930
as Lord Porteous
1932
as Prof. Horace S. Limberly - Hypnotist
1926
as Jim Nabours
1927
as Peter
1924
as Captain James Hook
1925
as John Bentley
1922
as Boyan Boone
1927
as Red McCue
1925
as 'Ascension' Jones
1921
as Luke Hatburn
1922
as Kreig
1959
as Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
1926
as King Neptune
1923
as Fakresh-el-Aamash
1925
as Tola
1922
as Emilio
1924
as Gen. Orlando Jackson
1924
as August Naab
1925
as Angus McGregor
1924
as Andrew Lackady
1926
as Mike
1924
as Rev. Adrian Plummer
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