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.
89 movies
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964·7.2
Flowing Gold
1940·6.7
Foreign Correspondent
1940·7.0
Pride and Prejudice
1940·6.9
Adventure in Diamonds
1940·6.0
Congo Maisie
1940·4.4
The Earl of Chicago
1940·6.3
The Honeymoon's Over
1939·8.0
Raffles
1939·6.2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939·6.9
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939·6.3
Bachelor Mother
1939·7.2
Man About Town
1939·4.5
Rose of Washington Square
1939·6.7
I'm from Missouri
1939·7.0
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939·6.2
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939·7.1
The Little Princess
1939·6.7
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939·5.7
The Last Warning
1938·8.5
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938·6.8
Submarine Patrol
1938·6.7
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938·5.8
Gateway
1938·7.4
Kidnapped
1938·6.0
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938·5.9
The First Hundred Years
1938·7.3
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938·6.3
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937·6.0
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937·6.0
Live, Love and Learn
1937·5.6
It's Love I'm After
1937·7.1
Danger – Love at Work
1937·7.0
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937·6.2
Love Under Fire
1937·5.3
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937·4.9
Night Must Fall
1937·7.0
Personal Property
1937·6.9
Ready, Willing and Able
1937·5.4
On the Avenue
1937·7.2
Maid of Salem
1937·6.2
They Wanted to Marry
1937·5.8
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937·6.1
Camille
1936·7.0
Lloyd's of London
1936·7.3
Tarzan Escapes
1936·6.8
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936·6.6
All American Chump
1936·6.2
Isle of Fury
1936·5.5
Libeled Lady
1936·7.3
Cain and Mabel
1936·6.4
Piccadilly Jim
1936·6.8
The White Angel
1936·7.2
Ticket to Paradise
1936·7.5
Palm Springs
1936·8.0
Trouble for Two
1936·6.5
The Golden Arrow
1936·6.3
Show Boat
1936·6.7
Dracula's Daughter
1936·6.0
The Unguarded Hour
1936·6.4
Love Before Breakfast
1936·6.1
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936·6.8
The Dark Hour
1936·5.9
Captain Blood
1935·7.2
A Tale of Two Cities
1935·6.9
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935·5.8
Kind Lady
1935·6.8
Stars Over Broadway
1935·5.6
Remember Last Night?
1935·5.5
A Feather in Her Hat
1935·7.0
3 Kids and a Queen
1935·6.8
Page Miss Glory
1935·6.7
Atlantic Adventure
1935·6.0
We're in the Money
1935·5.9
Bride of Frankenstein
1935·7.5
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935·6.5
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935·5.9
David Copperfield
1935·6.7
The Little Minister
1934·5.8
Father Brown, Detective
1934·6.5
The Gay Divorcee
1934·6.9
Charlie Chan in London
1934·6.9
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934·5.6
One More River
1934·5.2
Riptide
1934·6.7
The Poor Rich
1934·8.0
Long Lost Father
1934·5.9
The Invisible Man
1933·7.5
Cheaters at Play
1932·7.0