E. E. Clive

Edward E. Clive
Born	(1879-08-28)August 28, 1879 Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales
Died	June 6, 1940(1940-06-06) (aged 60) North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Cause of death	heart disease
Years active	1932-1940
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Ellis (1915-1940) (his death) (1 child)

Edward E. Clive (28 August 1879 – 6 June 1940) was a Welsh actor in the early 20th century.

Biography

Born in Monmouthshire, Clive studied for a medical career, having four years of medical course 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 U.S. 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.

Films

He made his film debut as a rural police officer in 1933's The Invisible Man, then spent the next seven years showing up in wry bit roles as burgomeisters, butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies. Though he seldom settled down too long in any one characterization, E. E. Clive was a semi-regular as 'Tenny the Butler' in Paramount Pictures' Bulldog Drummond "B" series starring John Howard and in 1939, he appeared in The Little Princess as Mr. Barrows.

He died on 6 June 1940, of a heart ailment, in his Hollywood home.^[1]

Partial filmography

References

External links

• E. E. Clive at the Internet Movie Database
• E. E. Clive at the Internet Broadway Database