EE Clive

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Edward E. Clive (born August 28, 1879 in Blaenavon , Monmouthshire , Wales , † June 6, 1940 in North Hollywood , California ) was a British film and stage actor.

life and career

Born probably in 1879 - according to other sources also in 1883 - in Wales, Edward E. Clive was supposed to become a doctor at the request of his father. He spent three years at St Bartholomew's Hospital before becoming an actor when he was 22. In 1912 he emigrated to the United States and performed at the Orpheum Circuit in Boston , among others . In 1926 he made his Broadway debut in New York in The Creaking Chair , where he not only worked as an actor, but also as a director and producer of the play. On Broadway, he played in three other plays until 1932. In total, he is said to have played in over 1150 plays in his entire theater career.

In 1933 he made his film debut in the horror film The Invisible , where he played a simple-minded village policeman with a dialect. Clive was very suitable for such roles as he was able to imitate dialects well, which came from his theater tours throughout Great Britain. Most of EE Clive's film appearances were short, but all the more striking. He mostly embodied comical variants of British stereotypes , for example as a nervous coachman in the crime classic The Dog of Baskerville (1939), as well as in its sequel The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) in the role of an imaginary police superintendent who wants to arrest the wrong man. He also played regularly British aristocrats, for example as Sir Harry in The Little Lord (1936). Clive played the role of the butler just as often, for example in the comedy The Foundling Mother and as Bulldog Drummond's servant Tenny in several episodes of the crime series of the same name. He played one of his most famous roles as the self-righteous mayor in the horror drama Frankenstein's Bride (1935).

One of his last films was Jane Austen's 1940 film Pride and Prejudice , in which Clive played the role of Sir William Lucas. He died of a heart attack in June of this year at the age of 60 . Clive left behind his wife, Eleanor.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b E.E. Clive, Actor, Dead in the West; Veteran of Stage and Screen Former Manager of Copley Theater in Boston Filled Character Parts Appeared in 1,159 Legitimate Plays Before Going Into Moving Pictures . In: The New York Times , June 7, 1940.
personal data
SURNAME Clive, EE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clive, Edward E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Blaenavon , Monmouthshire , Wales
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1940
Place of death North Hollywood , California