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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 26, 1879
Died
June 6, 1940
Place of Birth
Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Also Known As
- Edward Erskholme Clive
- Edward E. Clive
- E. E. Clive
E. E. Clive
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.3
Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
7.0
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
Flowing Gold
1940
7.0
Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
Foreign Correspondent
1940
6.9
Sir William Lucas
Pride and Prejudice
1940
5.2
Mr. MacPherson
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
3.7
Horace Snell
Congo Maisie
1940
5.6
Mr. Redwood
The Earl of Chicago
1940
6.0
Barraclough
Raffles
1939
6.9
Inspector Bristol
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
6.1
Tenny
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939
Credits
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1964
6.3
Flowing Gold
as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
1940
7.0
Foreign Correspondent
as Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
1940
7.0
Pride and Prejudice
as Sir William Lucas
1940
6.9
Adventure in Diamonds
as Mr. MacPherson
1940
5.2
Congo Maisie
as Horace Snell
1940
3.7
The Earl of Chicago
as Mr. Redwood
1940
5.6
Raffles
as Barraclough
1939
6.0
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Bristol
1939
6.9
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
as Tenny
1939
6.1
Bachelor Mother
as Butler
1939
7.1
Man About Town
as Hotchkiss
1939
3.6
Rose of Washington Square
as Barouche Driver
1939
5.8
I'm from Missouri
as Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood
1939
0.0
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
as Tenny
1939
6.1
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as London Cabbie John Clayton
1939
7.1
The Little Princess
as Mr. Barrows
1939
6.7
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Port Commandant General (uncredited)
1939
5.5
The Last Warning
as Major Barclay
1938
7.0
Submarine Patrol
1938
6.6
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Tenny
1938
6.6
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as 'Tenny' Tennison
1938
5.5
Gateway
as Room Steward
1938
6.5
Kidnapped
as Minister MacDougall
1938
4.7
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Tenny
1938
5.7
The First Hundred Years
as Chester Blascomb
1938
6.0
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Alf
1938
5.8
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
as 'Tenny' Tennison
1937
5.8
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Lord Nigel Braemer
1937
5.0
Live, Love and Learn
as Mr. Palmiston
1937
5.1
It's Love I'm After
as First Butler
1937
7.0
Danger – Love at Work
as Wilbur
1937
7.3
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Tenny
1937
6.1
Love Under Fire
as Captain Bowden
1937
4.7
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Auctioneer
1937
4.7
Night Must Fall
as Guide
1937
6.9
Personal Property
as Cosgrove Dabney
1937
6.9
Ready, Willing and Able
as Sir Samuel Buffington
1937
5.1
Maid of Salem
as Bilge
1937
5.9
On the Avenue
as Cabby
1937
6.7
They Wanted to Marry
as Stiles
1937
5.0
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as "Tenny" Tennison
1937
5.9
Camille
as Saint Gaudens (uncredited)
1936
6.9
Lloyd's of London
as Magistrate
1936
7.2
Tarzan Escapes
as Masters
1936
6.3
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Sir Humphrey Harcourt
1936
6.5
All American Chump
as . Montgomery Brantley
1936
5.8
All American Chump
as Montgomery Brantley
1936
5.8
Isle of Fury
as Dr. Hardy
1936
5.3
Libeled Lady
as Fishing Instructor
1936
7.3
Cain and Mabel
as Charles Fendwick
1936
6.1
Piccadilly Jim
as London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan
1936
6.5
The White Angel
as Dr. Smith (uncredited)
1936
7.2
Ticket to Paradise
as Barkins
1936
6.0
Palm Springs
as Morgan
1936
0.0
Trouble for Two
as King
1936
6.0
The Golden Arrow
as Walker
1936
6.1
Show Boat
1936
6.8
Show Boat
as Sir Arthur
1936
6.8
Dracula's Daughter
as Sergeant Wilkes
1936
5.9
The Unguarded Hour
as Lord Henry Hathaway
1936
6.2
Love Before Breakfast
as Yacht Captain (uncredited)
1936
5.8
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Sir Harry Lorridaile
1936
6.7
The Dark Hour
as Foot, the Butler
1936
5.6
Captain Blood
as Clerk of the Court
1935
7.2
A Tale of Two Cities
as Judge in 'Old Bailey'
1935
6.8
The Widow from Monte Carlo
as Lord Holloway
1935
5.0
Kind Lady
as Grammaphone Man (uncredited)
1935
6.6
Stars Over Broadway
as Crane
1935
5.2
Remember Last Night?
as Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)
1935
4.9
A Feather in Her Hat
as Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)
1935
6.8
3 Kids and a Queen
as Coachman
1935
6.0
Page Miss Glory
as Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)
1935
6.3
Atlantic Adventure
as McIntosh
1935
5.5
We're in the Money
as Jevons
1935
5.5
Bride of Frankenstein
as Burgomaster
1935
7.5
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)
1935
6.4
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Sapsea
1935
5.6
David Copperfield
as Sheriff's Man (uncredited)
1935
6.6
The Little Minister
as Sheriff Greer
1934
5.5
Father Brown, Detective
as Sergeant Dawes
1934
6.4
The Gay Divorcee
as Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)
1934
6.9
Charlie Chan in London
as Det. Sgt. Thacker
1934
6.8
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as London Bobbie
1934
5.3
One More River
as Chayne
1934
4.7
Riptide
as Major Mills (uncredited)
1934
6.2
The Poor Rich
as Lord Fetherstone
1934
0.0
Long Lost Father
as Spot Hawkins
1934
5.7
The Invisible Man
as Constable Jaffers
1933
7.5
Cheaters at Play
as Steward
1932
0.0