Ernie Adams
Actor
- Born
- June 17, 1885 · San Francisco, California, USA
- Died
- November 26, 1947 (age 62)
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.
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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.
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Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
December 20, 1946
It Happened One Night
February 22, 1934
Freaks
January 1, 1932
All Quiet on the Western Front
April 29, 1930
The Killers
August 30, 1946
My Man Godfrey
September 2, 1936
Little Caesar
January 25, 1931
Murder, My Sweet
December 14, 1944
Young Mr. Lincoln
June 9, 1939
The Pride of the Yankees
July 14, 1942
The Invisible Man Returns
January 12, 1940
She Done Him Wrong
February 9, 1933
Acting268
- 1947The Last Round-up as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- 1947The Black Widow as Blinky
- 1947Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
- 1947Robin Hood of Monterey as Pablo
- 1947The Pretender as Thomas the butler
- 1947Killer Dill as Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
- 1947Desperate as Villager (uncredited)
- 1947Trailing Danger as Pennypacker
- 1947The Millerson Case as Zeke Zilch
- 1947