Ernie Adams (born Ernest Stephen Dumarais;
June 18, 1885 – November 26, 1947) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage and screen character actor and writer, he appeared primarily in small uncredited parts.
Biography
Adams was also billed as Ernest S. Adams and Ernie S. Adams.
He appeared in
vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France in the middle of the 19th century. A ''vaudeville'' was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a drama ...
, theater, and film. He started his career in musical comedy on
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of ...
. 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.
[Resting Places: The Burial Sites of 14000 Famous Persons, by Scott Wilson]
Selected filmography
* ''
A Regular Girl'' (1919)
* ''
The Show'' (1922)
* ''
The Beloved Brute'' (1924)
* ''
Curlytop'' (1924)
* ''
The Thundering Herd'' (1925)
* ''
Pony Express
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During its 18 months of opera ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The Best People'' (1925)
* ''
Where the Worst Begins'' (1925)
* ''
Lord Jim'' (1925)
* ''
The Blackbird
''The Blackbird'' is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Waldemar Young, based on a story "The Mockingbird" by Tod Browning (which was originally supposed to be t ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Jazz Girl'' (1926)
* ''
The Valley of Bravery'' (1926)
* ''
Hair-Trigger Baxter'' (1926)
* ''
Pals in Paradise'' (1926)
* ''
Jewels of Desire'' (1927)
* ''
Melting Millions'' (1927)
* ''
Nevada
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'' (1927)
* ''
The Main Event'' (1927)
* ''
The Gay Defender'' (1927)
* ''
Bare Knees'' (1928)
* ''
Stool Pigeon
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'' (1928)
* ''
Forgotten Faces'' (1928)
* ''
Tenth Avenue'' (1928)
* ''
What a Night!'' (1928)
* ''
A Woman's Way'' (1928)
* ''
One Splendid Hour'' (1929)
* ''
The Fighting Legion'' (1930)
* ''
The Galloping Ghost'' (1931, Serial)
* ''
Night Beat'' (1931)
*''
Is There Justice?'' (1931)
* ''
The Hurricane Express'' (1932)
* ''
The Pride of the Legion'' (1932)
* ''
The Shadow of the Eagle'' (1932)
* ''
Breed of the Border'' (1933)
* ''
West of Singapore'' (1933)
* ''
Galloping Romeo'' (1933)
* ''
Found Alive'' (1933)
* ''
It Happened One Night
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'' (1934) as The Bag Thief (uncredited)
* ''
We're Not Dressing'' (1934)
* ''
Hell Bent for Love'' (1934)
* ''
Men of the Night'' (1934)
* ''
The Law of the Wild'' (1934)
* ''
Badge of Honor'' (1934)
* ''
The Prescott Kid
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'' (1934)
* ''
The Miracle Rider'' (1935)
* ''
Men of the Hour
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Plot
Dave and ...
'' (1935)
* ''
Trails End'' (1935)
* ''
My Man Godfrey'' (1936)
* ''
Road Gang'' (1936)
* ''
Two-Fisted Sheriff'' (1937)
* ''
San Quentin
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'' (1937) as Fink
* ''
The Painted Trail'' (1938)
* ''
West of Cheyenne'' (1938)
* ''
The Purple Vigilantes'' (1938)
* ''
Gun Packer'' (1938)
* ''
The Man from Sundown'' (1939)
* ''
The Invisible Killer'' (1939)
* ''
The Man with Nine Lives'' (1940)
* ''
The Golden Trail'' (1940)
* ''
Enemy Agent'' (1940)
* ''
The Pinto Kid'' (1941)
* ''
Road Agent'' (1941)
* ''
Cactus Makes Perfect
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'' (1942)
* ''
The Lone Prairie'' (1942)
* ''
Stand By All Networks'' (1942)
* ''
The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942) as Miller Huggins
* ''
Phony Express'' (1943)
* ''
Murder, My Sweet
''Murder, My Sweet'' (released as ''Farewell, My Lovely'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley (in her final film before retirement). The fi ...
'' (1944)
* ''
Lake Placid Serenade'' (1944)
* ''
Ghost Guns'' (1944)
* ''
Louisiana Hayride
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'' (1944)
* ''
Arizona Whirlwind'' (1944)
* ''
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine'' (1946)
* ''
It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946) - Ed
* ''
The Law Comes to Gunsight'' (1947)
* ''
Son of Zorro'' (1947)
* ''
Robin Hood of Monterey'' (1947)
* ''
Trailing Danger'' (1947)
* ''
Yankee Fakir'' (1947)
References
External links
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1885 births
1947 deaths
American male silent film actors
Male actors from San Francisco
20th-century American male actors
American male stage actors
Male Western (genre) film actors