E. E. Clive
1879-08-26 ( 145 years old ) in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

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.

Movies

The Big Parade of Comedy 1964-09-02
Flowing Gold 1940-08-24
Foreign Correspondent 1940-08-16
Pride and Prejudice 1940-07-26
Adventure in Diamonds 1940-03-08
Congo Maisie 1940-01-19
The Earl of Chicago 1940-01-05
Raffles 1939-11-11
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939-09-01
Bulldog Drummond's Bride 1939-07-12
Bachelor Mother 1939-06-30
Man About Town 1939-06-29
Rose of Washington Square 1939-05-05
I'm from Missouri 1939-04-06
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 1939-03-29
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939-03-24
The Little Princess 1939-03-17
Mr. Moto's Last Warning 1939-01-20
The Last Warning 1938-12-07
Arrest Bulldog Drummond 1938-11-25
Submarine Patrol 1938-11-25
Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938-08-05
Gateway 1938-08-05
Kidnapped 1938-05-27
Bulldog Drummond's Peril 1938-03-18
The First Hundred Years 1938-03-12
Arsène Lupin Returns 1938-02-25
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge 1937-12-16
Beg, Borrow or Steal 1937-12-03
Live, Love and Learn 1937-10-29
It's Love I'm After 1937-10-08
Danger – Love at Work 1937-09-30
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back 1937-09-24
Love Under Fire 1937-08-20
The Emperor's Candlesticks 1937-07-02
Night Must Fall 1937-04-30
Personal Property 1937-03-19
Ready, Willing and Able 1937-03-06
On the Avenue 1937-02-12
Maid of Salem 1937-02-12
They Wanted to Marry 1937-02-05
Bulldog Drummond Escapes 1937-01-22
Camille 1936-12-26
Lloyd's of London 1936-11-25
Tarzan Escapes 1936-11-06
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936-10-20
All American Chump 1936-10-16
All American Chump 1936-10-16
Isle of Fury 1936-10-10
Libeled Lady 1936-10-09
Cain and Mabel 1936-09-26
Piccadilly Jim 1936-08-14
The White Angel 1936-06-25
Ticket to Paradise 1936-06-24
Palm Springs 1936-06-05
Trouble for Two 1936-05-29
The Golden Arrow 1936-05-23
Show Boat 1936-05-17
Show Boat 1936-05-17
Dracula's Daughter 1936-05-11
The Unguarded Hour 1936-04-10
Love Before Breakfast 1936-03-09
Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936-03-06
The Dark Hour 1936-02-17
Captain Blood 1935-12-26
A Tale of Two Cities 1935-12-25
The Widow from Monte Carlo 1935-12-19
Kind Lady 1935-12-06
Stars Over Broadway 1935-11-23
Remember Last Night? 1935-10-28
A Feather in Her Hat 1935-10-25
3 Kids and a Queen 1935-10-21
Page Miss Glory 1935-09-07
Atlantic Adventure 1935-08-25
We're in the Money 1935-08-17
Bride of Frankenstein 1935-04-20
Gold Diggers of 1935 1935-03-15
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1935-02-04
David Copperfield 1935-01-18
The Little Minister 1934-12-28
Father Brown, Detective 1934-12-14
The Gay Divorcee 1934-10-12
Charlie Chan in London 1934-09-12
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934-08-15
One More River 1934-08-06
Riptide 1934-03-29
The Poor Rich 1934-02-25
Long Lost Father 1934-01-19
The Invisible Man 1933-11-03
Cheaters at Play 1932-01-27

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