E. J. Ratcliffe
| Edward J. Ratcliffe | |
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Still with Ratcliffe and Madge Kennedy in Help Yourself (1920) | |
| Born |
10 March 1863 London, England |
| Died |
28 September 1948 (aged 85) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1880s-1933 |
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Edward J. Ratcliffe (10 March 1863 – 28 September 1948) was an English actor of stage and screen.[1] He had an established stage career behind him when he came to films in 1915. He then spent nearly twenty years before the cameras before making his last film in 1933. He can be seen in many surviving silent and sound films. In the early Warner Brothers sound extravaganza The Show of Shows he plays Henry VI in the excerpted vignette from that play opposite John Barrymore's Richard III.[2]
Ratcliffe played Theodore Roosevelt on at least three occasions in films.
He was born in and died in the same years as fellow Englishman character acter C. Aubrey Smith.
New York barman Patrick Duffy claimed Ratcliffe brought the highball from England to the U.S. in 1894.[3]
Selected filmography
- Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
- The Divorcee (1919)
- The Great Adventure (1921)
- Disraeli (1921)
- Experience (1921)
- Sundown (1924)
- The Black Pirate (1926)
- Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)
- The Notorious Lady (1927)
- Cheating Cheaters (1927)
- The Prince of Headwaiters (1927)
- The Four Feathers (1929)
- The Jazz Age (1929)
- The Show of Shows (1929)
- Sally (1929)
- I Loved a Woman (1933)
See also
References
External links
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- E. J. Ratcliffe at the Internet Movie Database
- Edward J. Ratcliffe at IBDb.com
- E. J. Ratcliffe (page): North American Theatre Online(registration required)
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- E. J. Ratcliffe in a 1912 play (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
- E. J. Ratcliffe in his youth; portrait (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)