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E. E. Clive
Actor
Died June 6, 1940 (60 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as Cast |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy · as Cosgrove Dabney In 'personal Property' (arch. Foot.) (uncred.) |
| 1940 | Flowing Gold · as Mr. Naismith (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent · as Mr. Naismith (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Pride and Prejudice · as Sir William Lucas |
| 1940 | Adventure in Diamonds · as Mr. Macpherson |
| 1940 | Congo Maisie · as Horace Snell |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago · as Mr. Redwood |
| 1939 | The Honeymoon's Over · as Col. Shelby |
| 1939 | |
| 1939 | Bulldog Drummond's Bride · as Tenny |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · as Inspector Bristol |
| 1939 | Bachelor Mother · as Butler |
| 1939 | Man About Town · as Hotchkiss |
| 1939 | Rose of Washington Square · as Barouche Driver |
| 1939 | Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police · as Tenny |
| 1939 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as London Cabbie John Clayton |
| 1939 | The Little Princess · as Mr. Barrows |
| 1938 | Mr. Moto's Last Warning · as Port Commandant General (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Last Warning · as Major Barclay |
| 1938 | Arrest Bulldog Drummond · as Tenny |
| 1938 | |
| 1938 | Bulldog Drummond in Africa · as 'tenny' Tennison |
| 1938 | Gateway · as Room Steward |
| 1938 | Kidnapped · as Minister Macdougall |
| 1938 | Bulldog Drummond's Peril · as Tenny |
| 1938 | Arsène Lupin Returns · as Alf |
| 1937 | The First Hundred Years · as Chester Blascomb |
| 1937 | Bulldog Drummond's Revenge · as 'tenny' Tennison |
| 1937 | Beg, Borrow or Steal · as Lord Nigel Braemer |
| 1937 | The Great Garrick · as Pictures Vendor |
| 1937 | Live, Love and Learn · as Mr. Palmiston |
| 1937 | It's Love I'm After · as First Butler |
| 1937 | Danger - Love at Work · as Wilbur |
| 1937 | Bulldog Drummond Comes Back · as Tenny |
| 1937 | Love Under Fire · as Captain Bowden |
| 1937 | The Emperor's Candlesticks · as Auctioneer |
| 1937 | The Road Back · as General |
| 1937 | Night Must Fall · as Guide |
| 1937 | Personal Property · as Cosgrove Dabney |
| 1937 | Ready, Willing and Able · as Sir Samuel Buffington |
| 1937 | Maid of Salem · as Bilge |
| 1937 | On the Avenue · as Cabby |
| 1937 | They Wanted to Marry · as Stiles |
| 1937 | Bulldog Drummond Escapes · as "tenny" Tennison |
| 1936 | Camille · as Saint Gaudens (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Lloyd's of London · as Magistrate |
| 1936 | Tarzan Escapes · as Masters |
| 1936 | The Charge of the Light Brigade · as Sir Humphrey Harcourt |
| 1936 | All American Chump · as . Montgomery Brantley |
| 1936 | Isle of Fury · as Dr. Hardy |
| 1936 | Libeled Lady · as Fishing Instructor |
| 1936 | Cain and Mabel · as Charles Fendwick |
| 1936 | Piccadilly Jim · as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan |
| 1936 | The White Angel · as Dr. Smith (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Ticket to Paradise · as Barkins |
| 1936 | Palm Springs · as Morgan |
| 1936 | Trouble for Two · as King |
| 1936 | The King Steps Out · as Tutor |
| 1936 | The Golden Arrow · as Walker |
| 1936 | Show Boat · as Sir Arthur |
| 1936 | Dracula's Daughter · as Detective Sergeant Wilkes |
| 1936 | The Unguarded Hour · as Lord Henry Hathaway |
| 1936 | Love Before Breakfast · as Yacht Captain (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Little Lord Fauntleroy · as Sir Harry Lorridaile |
| 1936 | The Dark Hour · as Foot, The Butler |
| 1935 | The Widow from Monte Carlo · as Lord Holloway |
| 1935 | Sylvia Scarlett · as Customs Inspector |
| 1935 | Captain Blood · as Clerk Of The Court |
| 1935 | A Tale of Two Cities · as Judge In 'old Bailey' |
| 1935 | Kind Lady · as Grammaphone Man (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Stars Over Broadway · as Crane |
| 1935 | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo · as Waiter |
| 1935 | Remember Last Night? · as Coroner's Photographer (uncredited) |
| 1935 | A Feather in Her Hat · as Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Page Miss Glory · as Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Atlantic Adventure · as Mcintosh |
| 1935 | We're in the Money · as Jevons |
| 1935 | David Copperfield · as Sheriff's Man (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Bride of Frankenstein · as Burgomaster |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 · as Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Mystery of Edwin Drood · as Mayor Thomas Sapsea |
| 1934 | The Little Minister · as Sheriff Greer |
| 1934 | Father Brown, Detective · as Sergeant Dawes |
| 1934 | The Gay Divorcee · as Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Charlie Chan in London · as Det. Sgt. Thacker |
| 1934 | Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back · as London Bobbie |
| 1934 | One More River · as Chayne |
| 1934 | Riptide · as Major Mills (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Long Lost Father · as Spot Hawkins |
| 1933 | The Invisible Man · as Constable Jaffers |