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E. E. Clive
Born · August 26, 1879
Died · June 6, 1940 (60 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Bio
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.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
6.3
1964
Flowing Gold
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
7.0
1940
Foreign Correspondent
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
7.0
1940
Pride and Prejudice
Sir William Lucas
6.9
1940
Adventure in Diamonds
Mr. MacPherson
5.2
1940
Congo Maisie
Horace Snell
4.2
1940
The Earl of Chicago
Mr. Redwood
5.6
1940
Raffles
Barraclough
6.0
1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Bristol
6.9
1939
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Tenny
6.3
1939
Bachelor Mother
Butler
7.1
1939
Man About Town
Hotchkiss
4.5
1939
Rose of Washington Square
Barouche Driver
5.7
1939
I'm from Missouri
Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood
0.0
1939
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Tenny
6.1
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
London Cabbie John Clayton
7.1
1939
The Little Princess
Mr. Barrows
6.7
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Port Commandant General (uncredited)
5.8
1939
The Last Warning
Major Barclay
7.0
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Tenny
6.6
1938
Submarine Patrol
6.6
1938
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
'Tenny' Tennison
5.5
1938
Gateway
Room Steward
6.5
1938
Kidnapped
Minister MacDougall
4.7
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Tenny
5.7
1938
The First Hundred Years
Chester Blascomb
6.0
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
Alf
5.8
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
'Tenny' Tennison
5.8
1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Lord Nigel Braemer
4.5
1937
Live, Love and Learn
Mr. Palmiston
5.8
1937
It's Love I'm After
First Butler
7.0
1937
Danger – Love at Work
Wilbur
7.3
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Tenny
6.1
1937
Love Under Fire
Captain Bowden
4.7
1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Auctioneer
5.2
1937
Night Must Fall
Guide
7.1
1937
Personal Property
Cosgrove Dabney
6.9
1937
Ready, Willing and Able
Sir Samuel Buffington
5.2
1937
On the Avenue
Cabby
6.7
1937
Maid of Salem
Bilge
5.9
1937
They Wanted to Marry
Stiles
5.0
1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
"Tenny" Tennison
5.9
1937
Camille
Saint Gaudens (uncredited)
7.0
1936
Lloyd's of London
Magistrate
7.2
1936
Tarzan Escapes
Masters
6.3
1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Sir Humphrey Harcourt
6.5
1936
All American Chump
. Montgomery Brantley
5.8
1936
All American Chump
Montgomery Brantley
5.8
1936
Isle of Fury
Dr. Hardy
5.3
1936
Libeled Lady
Fishing Instructor
7.3
1936
Cain and Mabel
Charles Fendwick
6.2
1936
Piccadilly Jim
London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan
6.5
1936
The White Angel
Dr. Smith (uncredited)
8.0
1936
Ticket to Paradise
Barkins
6.0
1936
Palm Springs
Morgan
0.0
1936
Trouble for Two
King
6.0
1936
The Golden Arrow
Walker
6.1
1936
Show Boat
6.7
1936
Show Boat
Sir Arthur
6.7
1936
Dracula's Daughter
Detective Sergeant Wilkes
5.9
1936
The Unguarded Hour
Lord Henry Hathaway
6.2
1936
Love Before Breakfast
Yacht Captain (uncredited)
5.8
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Sir Harry Lorridaile
6.8
1936
The Dark Hour
Foot, the Butler
5.5
1936
Captain Blood
Clerk of the Court
7.2
1935
A Tale of Two Cities
Judge in 'Old Bailey'
6.8
1935
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Lord Holloway
5.0
1935
Kind Lady
Grammaphone Man (uncredited)
6.6
1935
Stars Over Broadway
Crane
5.2
1935
Remember Last Night?
Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)
4.6
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)
6.8
1935
3 Kids and a Queen
Coachman
6.0
1935
Page Miss Glory
Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)
6.3
1935
Atlantic Adventure
McIntosh
5.5
1935
We're in the Money
Jevons
5.5
1935
Bride of Frankenstein
Burgomaster
7.5
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)
6.4
1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Mayor Thomas Sapsea
5.5
1935
David Copperfield
Sheriff's Man (uncredited)
6.6
1935
The Little Minister
Sheriff Greer
5.9
1934
Father Brown, Detective
Sergeant Dawes
6.5
1934
The Gay Divorcee
Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)
6.9
1934
Charlie Chan in London
Det. Sgt. Thacker
6.9
1934
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
London Bobbie
5.3
1934
One More River
Chayne
5.3
1934
Riptide
Major Mills (uncredited)
6.2
1934
The Poor Rich
Lord Fetherstone
0.0
1934
Long Lost Father
Spot Hawkins
5.7
1934
The Invisible Man
Constable Jaffers
7.5
1933
Cheaters at Play
Steward
0.0
1932