E. E. Clive

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Birthday: August 26, 1879

Deathday: June 06, 1940

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

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