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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The Big Parade of Comedy | Cosgrove Dabney in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | 1964-09-02 |
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Foreign Correspondent | Mr. Naismith (uncredited) | 1940-08-16 |
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Flowing Gold | Mr. Naismith (uncredited) | 1940-08-24 |
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The Earl of Chicago | Mr. Redwood | 1940-01-05 |
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Pride and Prejudice | Sir William Lucas | 1940-07-26 |
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Congo Maisie | Horace Snell | 1940-01-19 |
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Adventure in Diamonds | Mr. MacPherson | 1940-03-08 |
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride | Tenny | 1939-07-12 |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles | London Cabbie John Clayton | 1939-03-24 |
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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police | Tenny | 1939-03-29 |
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I'm from Missouri | Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood | 1939-04-06 |
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Port Commandant General (uncredited) | 1939-01-20 |
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Bachelor Mother | Butler | 1939-06-30 |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Inspector Bristol | 1939-09-01 |
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Man About Town | Hotchkiss | 1939-06-29 |
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Raffles | Barraclough | 1939-11-11 |
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The Honeymoon's Over | Col. Shelby | 1939-12-14 |
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The Little Princess | Mr. Barrows | 1939-03-17 |
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Rose of Washington Square | Barouche Driver | 1939-05-05 |
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa | 'Tenny' Tennison | 1938-08-05 |
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond | Tenny | 1938-11-25 |
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Arsène Lupin Returns | Alf | 1938-02-25 |
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The First Hundred Years | Chester Blascomb | 1938-03-12 |
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Kidnapped | Minister MacDougall | 1938-05-27 |
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The Last Warning | Major Barclay | 1938-12-07 |
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Gateway | Room Steward | 1938-08-05 |
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Tenny | 1938-03-18 |
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Submarine Patrol | 1938-11-25 | |
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes | "Tenny" Tennison | 1937-01-22 |
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On the Avenue | Cabby | 1937-02-12 |
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Night Must Fall | Guide | 1937-04-30 |
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Love Under Fire | Captain Bowden | 1937-08-20 |
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Beg, Borrow or Steal | Lord Nigel Braemer | 1937-12-03 |
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They Wanted to Marry | Stiles | 1937-02-05 |
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Ready, Willing and Able | Sir Samuel Buffington | 1937-03-06 |
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The Emperor's Candlesticks | Auctioneer | 1937-07-02 |
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Live, Love and Learn | Mr. Palmiston | 1937-10-29 |
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Personal Property | Cosgrove Dabney | 1937-03-19 |
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Maid of Salem | Bilge | 1937-02-12 |
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Danger – Love at Work | Wilbur | 1937-09-30 |
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It's Love I'm After | First Butler | 1937-10-08 |
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge | 'Tenny' Tennison | 1937-12-16 |
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Tenny | 1937-09-24 |
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All American Chump | . Montgomery Brantley | 1936-10-16 |
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All American Chump | Montgomery Brantley | 1936-10-16 |
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The Golden Arrow | Walker | 1936-05-23 |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | Sir Harry Lorridaile | 1936-03-06 |
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The White Angel | Dr. Smith (uncredited) | 1936-06-25 |
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Libeled Lady | Fishing Instructor | 1936-10-09 |
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Dracula's Daughter | Sergeant Wilkes | 1936-05-11 |
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Ticket to Paradise | Barkins | 1936-06-24 |
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Cain and Mabel | Charles Fendwick | 1936-09-26 |
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Trouble for Two | King | 1936-05-29 |
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Palm Springs | Morgan | 1936-06-05 |
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Piccadilly Jim | London Gossip Editor Bill Mechan | 1936-08-14 |
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Love Before Breakfast | Yacht Captain (uncredited) | 1936-03-09 |
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Isle of Fury | Dr. Hardy | 1936-10-10 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Sir Humphrey Harcourt | 1936-10-20 |
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The Unguarded Hour | Lord Henry Hathaway | 1936-04-10 |
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The Dark Hour | Foot, the Butler | 1936-02-17 |
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Show Boat | Sir Arthur | 1936-05-17 |
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Show Boat | 1936-05-17 | |
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Camille | Saint Gaudens (uncredited) | 1936-12-26 |
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Tarzan Escapes | Masters | 1936-11-06 |
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Lloyd's of London | Magistrate | 1936-11-25 |
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3 Kids and a Queen | Coachman | 1935-10-21 |
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A Feather in Her Hat | Higgins - Pub Proprietor (uncredited) | 1935-10-25 |
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Gold Diggers of 1935 | Thorpe's Chauffeur Westbrook (uncredited) | 1935-03-15 |
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A Tale of Two Cities | Judge in 'Old Bailey' | 1935-12-25 |
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Remember Last Night? | Coroner's Photographer (uncredited) | 1935-10-28 |
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The Widow from Monte Carlo | Lord Holloway | 1935-12-19 |
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Atlantic Adventure | McIntosh | 1935-08-25 |
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Bride of Frankenstein | Burgomaster | 1935-04-20 |
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Captain Blood | Clerk of the Court | 1935-12-26 |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Sapsea | 1935-02-04 |
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The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger | Sheriff's Man (uncredited) | 1935-01-18 |
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We're in the Money | Jevons | 1935-08-17 |
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Page Miss Glory | Monogram Shirtmaker (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 |
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Stars Over Broadway | Crane | 1935-11-23 |
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Kind Lady | Grammaphone Man (uncredited) | 1935-12-06 |
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Charlie Chan in London | Det. Sgt. Thacker | 1934-09-12 |
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The Gay Divorcee | Chief Customs Inspector (uncredited) | 1934-10-12 |
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The Little Minister | Sheriff Greer | 1934-12-28 |
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Riptide | Major Mills (uncredited) | 1934-03-29 |
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Long Lost Father | Spot Hawkins | 1934-01-19 |
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Father Brown, Detective | Sergeant Dawes | 1934-12-14 |
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One More River | Chayne | 1934-08-06 |
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | London Bobbie | 1934-08-15 |
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The Poor Rich | Lord Fetherstone | 1934-02-25 |
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The Invisible Man | Constable Jaffers | 1933-10-31 |
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Cheaters at Play | Steward | 1932-01-27 |
