E. E. Clive

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

146

Movies

Born: August 26, 1879 – June 6, 1940
From: Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

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.

Works

89 films

Bride of Frankenstein

19357.5

The Invisible Man

19337.5

Pride and Prejudice

19406.9

Captain Blood

19357.2

Foreign Correspondent

19407.0

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

19396.9

Libeled Lady

19367.3

Tarzan Escapes

19366.8

Camille

19367.0

The Gay Divorcee

19346.9

David Copperfield

19356.7

The Charge of the Light Brigade

19366.5

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19397.1

Dracula's Daughter

19366.0

The Little Princess

19396.7

A Tale of Two Cities

19356.8

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Little Lord Fauntleroy

19366.8

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

Show Boat

19366.7

Isle of Fury

19365.5

Bachelor Mother

19397.2

Raffles

19396.2

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

19395.7

Rose of Washington Square

19396.7

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

19355.9

Lloyd's of London

19367.3

It's Love I'm After

19377.1

Kind Lady

19356.8

3 Kids and a Queen

19356.8

Maid of Salem

19376.2

Riptide

19346.7

The Honeymoon's Over

19398.0

The Little Minister

19345.8

Ready, Willing and Able

19375.4

One More River

19345.2

The Earl of Chicago

19406.3

Submarine Patrol

19386.7

Stars Over Broadway

19355.6

Love Before Breakfast

19366.1

Adventure in Diamonds

19406.0

Kidnapped

19386.0

Night Must Fall

19377.0

Live, Love and Learn

19375.6

Personal Property

19376.9

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

19385.8

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

19385.9

Cain and Mabel

19366.4

Gateway

19387.4

Charlie Chan in London

19346.9

Page Miss Glory

19356.7

Danger – Love at Work

19377.0

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

19376.0

Congo Maisie

19404.4

Gold Diggers of 1935

19356.5

Love Under Fire

19375.3

The White Angel

19367.2

The Poor Rich

19348.0

Palm Springs

19368.0

Arsène Lupin Returns

19386.3

We're in the Money

19355.9

Long Lost Father

19345.9

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

19345.6

Beg, Borrow or Steal

19376.0

Man About Town

19394.5

Atlantic Adventure

19356.0

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

19396.3

Flowing Gold

19406.7

Piccadilly Jim

19366.8

Remember Last Night?

19355.5

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

19396.2

The Golden Arrow

19366.3

Cheaters at Play

19327.0

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

19376.1

The Last Warning

19388.5

Ticket to Paradise

19367.5

Father Brown, Detective

19346.5

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

19386.8

Trouble for Two

19366.5

The Dark Hour

19365.9

On the Avenue

19377.2

They Wanted to Marry

19375.8

The First Hundred Years

19387.3

A Feather in Her Hat

19357.0

The Widow from Monte Carlo

19355.8

I'm from Missouri

19397.0

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

19376.2

The Unguarded Hour

19366.4

All American Chump

19366.2