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Congo Maisie

as Horace Snell

1940
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Inspector Bristol

1939
Bachelor Mother

as Butler

1939
Rose of Washington Square

as Barouche Driver

1939
Raffles

as Barraclough

1939
Man About Town

as Hotchkiss

1939
The Last Warning

as Major Barclay

1938
Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as 'Tenny' Tennison

1938
Bulldog Drummond Escapes

as "Tenny" Tennison

1937
Personal Property

as Cosgrove Dabney

1937
Night Must Fall

as Guide

1937
Love Under Fire

as Captain Bowden

1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

as 'Tenny' Tennison

1937
They Wanted to Marry

as Stiles

1937
Dracula's Daughter

as Detective Sergeant Wilkes

1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Sir Harry Lorridaile

1936
Libeled Lady

as Fishing Instructor

1936
Tarzan Escapes

as Masters

1936
Isle of Fury

as Dr. Hardy

1936
The Unguarded Hour

as Lord Henry Hathaway

1936
The Dark Hour

as Foot, the Butler

1936
Bride of Frankenstein

as Burgomaster

1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Mayor Thomas Sapsea

1935
E. E. Clive E. E. Clive

Birthday

1879-08-26

Place of Birth

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.
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