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