Cast

E. E. Clive

Acting

Cast

E. E. Clive

Known for

Acting

Born

1879-08-26

From

Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Died

1940-06-06

Also known as Edward Erskholme Clive, Edward E. Clive, 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 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 1933's 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 Whale's 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 Clive's 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.

E. E. Clive

E. E. Clive

Biography

The Invisible Man

Bride of Frankenstein

Foreign Correspondent

Captain Blood

Tarzan Escapes

Libeled Lady

Pride and Prejudice

Camille

The Little Princess

Dracula's Daughter

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Gay Divorcee

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Emperor's Candlesticks

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Isle of Fury

Danger – Love at Work

David Copperfield

The Honeymoon's Over

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

A Tale of Two Cities

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Show Boat

Show Boat

Night Must Fall

Lloyd's of London

It's Love I'm After

Arsène Lupin Returns

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

The Big Parade of Comedy

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

The Earl of Chicago

Live, Love and Learn

Riptide

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The White Angel

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Rose of Washington Square

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Maid of Salem

Flowing Gold

Love Under Fire

One More River

The Poor Rich

Love Before Breakfast

Submarine Patrol

Cheaters at Play

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Charlie Chan in London

On the Avenue

Stars Over Broadway

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

The First Hundred Years

Bachelor Mother

A Feather in Her Hat

We're in the Money

I'm from Missouri

Trouble for Two

Remember Last Night?

Gateway

Kidnapped

The Last Warning

The Golden Arrow

The Little Minister

Long Lost Father

Ready, Willing and Able

Congo Maisie

The Unguarded Hour

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Kind Lady

Adventure in Diamonds

Father Brown, Detective

Page Miss Glory

Cain and Mabel