Acting
E. E. Clive
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.
Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film · 1964
Pride and Prejudice
Film · 1940
Congo Maisie
Film · 1940
The Earl of Chicago
Film · 1940
Foreign Correspondent
Film · 1940
Flowing Gold
Film · 1940
Adventure in Diamonds
Film · 1940
The Little Princess
Film · 1939
Rose of Washington Square
Film · 1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Film · 1939
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Film · 1939
Raffles
Film · 1939
Man About Town
Film · 1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Film · 1939
Bachelor Mother
Film · 1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Film · 1939
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Film · 1939
I'm from Missouri
Film · 1939
The Honeymoon's Over
Film · 1939
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Film · 1938
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Film · 1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
Film · 1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Film · 1938
The First Hundred Years
Film · 1938
Kidnapped
Film · 1938
Submarine Patrol
Film · 1938
The Last Warning
Film · 1938
Gateway
Film · 1938
Personal Property
Film · 1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Film · 1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Film · 1937
It's Love I'm After
Film · 1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Film · 1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Film · 1937
Danger – Love at Work
Film · 1937
Live, Love and Learn
Film · 1937
They Wanted to Marry
Film · 1937
Ready, Willing and Able
Film · 1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Film · 1937
On the Avenue
Film · 1937
Maid of Salem
Film · 1937
Love Under Fire
Film · 1937
Night Must Fall
Film · 1937
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Film · 1936
Dracula's Daughter
Film · 1936
Libeled Lady
Film · 1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Film · 1936
Tarzan Escapes
Film · 1936
Show Boat
Film · 1936
Lloyd's of London
Film · 1936
Isle of Fury
Film · 1936
Love Before Breakfast
Film · 1936
Piccadilly Jim
Film · 1936
Cain and Mabel
Film · 1936
Trouble for Two
Film · 1936
The Unguarded Hour
Film · 1936
The Dark Hour
Film · 1936
Ticket to Paradise
Film · 1936
Palm Springs
Film · 1936
The White Angel
Film · 1936
The Golden Arrow
Film · 1936
All American Chump
Film · 1936
All American Chump
Film · 1936
Camille
Film · 1936
Show Boat
Film · 1936
Bride of Frankenstein
Film · 1935
Captain Blood
Film · 1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Film · 1935
Atlantic Adventure
Film · 1935
We're in the Money
Film · 1935
David Copperfield
Film · 1935
Kind Lady
Film · 1935
Stars Over Broadway
Film · 1935
Page Miss Glory
Film · 1935
Remember Last Night?
Film · 1935
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Film · 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
Film · 1935
A Feather in Her Hat
Film · 1935
3 Kids and a Queen
Film · 1935
A Tale of Two Cities
Film · 1935
Charlie Chan in London
Film · 1934
The Gay Divorcee
Film · 1934
The Little Minister
Film · 1934
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Film · 1934
The Poor Rich
Film · 1934
Long Lost Father
Film · 1934
Father Brown, Detective
Film · 1934
One More River
Film · 1934
Riptide
Film · 1934
The Invisible Man
Film · 1933
Cheaters at Play
Film · 1932