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.

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Libeled Lady

Fishing Instructor

Ταινία 1936

The Gay Divorcee

Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)

Ταινία 1934

Pride and Prejudice

Sir William Lucas

Ταινία 1940

Personal Property

Cosgrove Dabney

Ταινία 1937

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Tenny

Ταινία 1937

Show Boat

Ταινία 1936

Congo Maisie

Horace Snell

Ταινία 1940

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Mayor Thomas Sapsea

Ταινία 1935

It's Love I'm After

First Butler

Ταινία 1937

Isle of Fury

Dr. Hardy

Ταινία 1936

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

Tenny

Ταινία 1939

Love Before Breakfast

Yacht Captain (uncredited)

Ταινία 1936

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

'Tenny' Tennison

Ταινία 1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

Alf

Ταινία 1938

The Earl of Chicago

Mr. Redwood

Ταινία 1940

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Tenny

Ταινία 1938

Piccadilly Jim

London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan

Ταινία 1936

Raffles

Barraclough

Ταινία 1939

Cain and Mabel

Charles Fendwick

Ταινία 1936

Trouble for Two

King

Ταινία 1936

The Poor Rich

Lord Fetherstone

Ταινία 1934

The Unguarded Hour

Lord Henry Hathaway

Ταινία 1936

The Dark Hour

Foot, the Butler

Ταινία 1936

Ticket to Paradise

Barkins

Ταινία 1936

Long Lost Father

Spot Hawkins

Ταινία 1934

Atlantic Adventure

McIntosh

Ταινία 1935

Man About Town

Hotchkiss

Ταινία 1939

Father Brown, Detective

Sergeant Dawes

Ταινία 1934

We're in the Money

Jevons

Ταινία 1935

The Hound of the Baskervilles

London Cabbie John Clayton

Ταινία 1939

The First Hundred Years

Chester Blascomb

Ταινία 1938

David Copperfield

Sheriff's Man (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

They Wanted to Marry

Stiles

Ταινία 1937

Ready, Willing and Able

Sir Samuel Buffington

Ταινία 1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Lord Nigel Braemer

Ταινία 1937

Kind Lady

Grammaphone Man (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

Stars Over Broadway

Crane

Ταινία 1935

Bachelor Mother

Butler

Ταινία 1939

The White Angel

Dr. Smith (uncredited)

Ταινία 1936

Page Miss Glory

Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

On the Avenue

Cabby

Ταινία 1937

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Port Commandant General (uncredited)

Ταινία 1939

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Tenny

Ταινία 1939

Cheaters at Play

Steward

Ταινία 1932

Submarine Patrol

Ταινία 1938

Maid of Salem

Bilge

Ταινία 1937

All American Chump

. Montgomery Brantley

Ταινία 1936

All American Chump

Montgomery Brantley

Ταινία 1936

The Last Warning

Major Barclay

Ταινία 1938

I'm from Missouri

Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood

Ταινία 1939

Love Under Fire

Captain Bowden

Ταινία 1937

Foreign Correspondent

Mr. Naismith (uncredited)

Ταινία 1940

Flowing Gold

Mr. Naismith (uncredited)

Ταινία 1940

Remember Last Night?

Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

Camille

Saint Gaudens (uncredited)

Ταινία 1936

One More River

Chayne

Ταινία 1934

Night Must Fall

Guide

Ταινία 1937

The Widow from Monte Carlo

Lord Holloway

Ταινία 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

Adventure in Diamonds

Mr. MacPherson

Ταινία 1940

Riptide

Major Mills (uncredited)

Ταινία 1934

A Feather in Her Hat

Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)

Ταινία 1935

3 Kids and a Queen

Coachman

Ταινία 1935

The Big Parade of Comedy

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

Ταινία 1964

Show Boat

Sir Arthur

Ταινία 1936