
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.

フランケンシュタインの花嫁

透明人間

Danger – Love at Work

Libeled Lady

Lloyd's of London

海賊ブラッド

The White Angel

Bachelor Mother

The Hound of the Baskervilles

It's Love I'm After

On the Avenue

The Last Warning

Flowing Gold

椿姫

海外特派員

コンチネンタル

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Pride and Prejudice

Personal Property

Night Must Fall

Charlie Chan in London

Show Boat

A Feather in Her Hat

A Tale of Two Cities

Little Lord Fauntleroy

テンプルちゃんの小公女

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

Kind Lady

Submarine Patrol

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Piccadilly Jim

Gateway

Rose of Washington Square

Father Brown, Detective

Gold Diggers of 1935

Tarzan Escapes

Page Miss Glory

The Unguarded Hour

Riptide

The Earl of Chicago

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

Cain and Mabel

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

The Golden Arrow

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Raffles

Trouble for Two

Ticket to Paradise

The First Hundred Years

3 Kids and a Queen

女ドラキュラ

Maid of Salem

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

Love Before Breakfast

Arsène Lupin Returns

All American Chump

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Long Lost Father

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Dark Hour

The Little Minister

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Atlantic Adventure

We're in the Money

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Isle of Fury

Stars Over Broadway

Adventure in Diamonds

Live, Love and Learn

Ready, Willing and Able

They Wanted to Marry

Beg, Borrow or Steal

The Widow from Monte Carlo

Remember Last Night?

One More River

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Kidnapped

Love Under Fire

Congo Maisie

Man About Town

The Poor Rich

Palm Springs

Cheaters at Play

I'm from Missouri

The Honeymoon's Over