
Ernie Adams
Actor
Born: June 17, 1885 (62 years old)
Died: November 26, 1947
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Ernie Adams (born Ernest Stephen Dumarais, June 18, 1885 – November 26, 1947) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage and screen actor and writer. Born in San Francisco, California to Leon D. Adams and Laurence G. Girard, he was also billed as Ernest S. Adams and Ernie S. Adams. He appeared in vaudeville, theater, and film. He started his career in musical comedy on Broadway. Along with his wife Berdonna Gilbert, he formed the vaudeville team "Gilbert and Adams". He appeared in more than 400 films starting from the silent era between 1919 and 1948, and was particularly known for playing shady characters. On Broadway, Adams appeared in Toot-Toot! (1918). On November 26, 1947, Adams died of an acute pulmonary edema at the West Olympic Sanitarium in Los Angeles, California, aged 62. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ernie Adams (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (93)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946, ★ 8.3)
- The Sea Wolf (1941, ★ 7.2)
- The Pride of the Yankees (1942, ★ 7.4)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, ★ 7.2)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933, ★ 7.4)
- The Killers (1946, ★ 7.4)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, ★ 7.7)
- My Man Godfrey (1936, ★ 7.6)
- Little Miss Marker (1934, ★ 6.4)
- The Suspect (1945, ★ 6.7)
- Speedy (1928, ★ 7.3)
- Freaks (1932, ★ 7.8)
- Midnight Mary (1933, ★ 6.8)
- Desperate (1947, ★ 6.5)
- Murder, My Sweet (1944, ★ 7.2)
- It Happened One Night (1934, ★ 7.8)
- Escape in the Fog (1945, ★ 5.3)
- The Pretender (1947, ★ 5.5)
- The Thirteenth Hour (1947, ★ 5.8)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933, ★ 5.9)
- Along Came Jones (1945, ★ 5.6)
- The Power of the Whistler (1945, ★ 5.8)
- Return of the Ape Man (1944, ★ 5.4)
- The Phantom (1943, ★ 6.2)
- I Love a Mystery (1945, ★ 6.2)
- Cactus Makes Perfect (1942, ★ 5.7)
- Phony Express (1943, ★ 5.4)
- The Man in the Barn (1937, ★ 5.3)
- The Devil Commands (1941, ★ 6.2)
- The Man with Nine Lives (1940, ★ 6.2)