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 Bartholomews 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 1933s 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 Whales 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 Clives 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.
Fishing Instructor
Ταινία 1936
Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)
Ταινία 1934
Sir William Lucas
Ταινία 1940
Cosgrove Dabney
Ταινία 1937
Tenny
Ταινία 1937
Ταινία 1936
Horace Snell
Ταινία 1940
Mayor Thomas Sapsea
Ταινία 1935
First Butler
Ταινία 1937
Dr. Hardy
Ταινία 1936
Tenny
Ταινία 1939
Yacht Captain (uncredited)
Ταινία 1936
'Tenny' Tennison
Ταινία 1938
Alf
Ταινία 1938
Mr. Redwood
Ταινία 1940
Tenny
Ταινία 1938
London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan
Ταινία 1936
Barraclough
Ταινία 1939
Charles Fendwick
Ταινία 1936
King
Ταινία 1936
Lord Fetherstone
Ταινία 1934
Lord Henry Hathaway
Ταινία 1936
Foot, the Butler
Ταινία 1936
Barkins
Ταινία 1936
Spot Hawkins
Ταινία 1934
McIntosh
Ταινία 1935
Hotchkiss
Ταινία 1939
Sergeant Dawes
Ταινία 1934
Jevons
Ταινία 1935
London Cabbie John Clayton
Ταινία 1939
Chester Blascomb
Ταινία 1938
Sheriff's Man (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Stiles
Ταινία 1937
Sir Samuel Buffington
Ταινία 1937
Lord Nigel Braemer
Ταινία 1937
Grammaphone Man (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Crane
Ταινία 1935
Butler
Ταινία 1939
Dr. Smith (uncredited)
Ταινία 1936
Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Cabby
Ταινία 1937
Port Commandant General (uncredited)
Ταινία 1939
Tenny
Ταινία 1939
Steward
Ταινία 1932
Ταινία 1938
Bilge
Ταινία 1937
. Montgomery Brantley
Ταινία 1936
Montgomery Brantley
Ταινία 1936
Major Barclay
Ταινία 1938
Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood
Ταινία 1939
Captain Bowden
Ταινία 1937
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
Ταινία 1940
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
Ταινία 1940
Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Saint Gaudens (uncredited)
Ταινία 1936
Chayne
Ταινία 1934
Guide
Ταινία 1937
Lord Holloway
Ταινία 1935
Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Mr. MacPherson
Ταινία 1940
Major Mills (uncredited)
Ταινία 1934
Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)
Ταινία 1935
Coachman
Ταινία 1935
Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Ταινία 1964
Sir Arthur
Ταινία 1936