E. E. Clive

E. E. Clive

Acting 1879-08-26 Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

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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1964 Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1940 Sir William Lucas
1940 Horace Snell
1940 Mr. Redwood
1940 Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
1940 Mr. Naismith (uncredited)
1940 Mr. MacPherson
1939 Mr. Barrows
1939 Barouche Driver
1939 Inspector Bristol
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1939 Tenny
1939 Barraclough
1939 Hotchkiss
1939 London Cabbie John Clayton
1939 Butler
1939 Port Commandant General (uncredited)
1939 Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood
1938 Tenny
1938 'Tenny' Tennison
1938 Alf
1938 Tenny
1938 Chester Blascomb
1938 Minister MacDougall
1938 Major Barclay
1938 Room Steward
1937 Cosgrove Dabney
1937 "Tenny" Tennison
1937 First Butler
1937 'Tenny' Tennison
1937 Auctioneer
1937 Wilbur
1937 Mr. Palmiston
1937 Stiles
1937 Sir Samuel Buffington
1937 Lord Nigel Braemer
1937 Cabby
1937 Bilge
1937 Captain Bowden
1937 Guide
1936 Sir Harry Lorridaile
1936 Sergeant Wilkes
1936 Fishing Instructor
1936 Sir Humphrey Harcourt
1936 Masters
1936 Magistrate
1936 Dr. Hardy
1936 Yacht Captain (uncredited)
1936 London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan
1936 Charles Fendwick
1936 King
1936 Lord Henry Hathaway
1936 Foot, the Butler
1936 Barkins
1936 Morgan
1936 Dr. Smith (uncredited)
1936 Walker
1936 . Montgomery Brantley
1936 Montgomery Brantley
1936 Saint Gaudens (uncredited)
1936 Sir Arthur
1935 Burgomaster
1935 Clerk of the Court
1935 Sapsea
1935 McIntosh
1935 Jevons
1935 Sheriff's Man (uncredited)
1935 Grammaphone Man (uncredited)
1935 Crane
1935 Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited)
1935 Coroner's Photographer (uncredited)
1935 Lord Holloway
1935 Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited)
1935 Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited)
1935 Coachman
1935 Judge in 'Old Bailey'
1934 Det. Sgt. Thacker
1934 Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited)
1934 Sheriff Greer
1934 London Bobbie
1934 Lord Fetherstone
1934 Spot Hawkins
1934 Sergeant Dawes
1934 Chayne
1934 Major Mills (uncredited)
1933 Constable Jaffers
1932 Steward