Ernie Adams
- Acting
- June 17, 1885 · San Francisco, California, USA
- November 26, 1947
Biography
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ernie Adams (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Last Round-up · Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- The Black Widow · Blinky
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome · Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
- Robin Hood of Monterey · Pablo
- The Pretender · Thomas the butler
- Killer Dill · Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
- Desperate · Villager (uncredited)
- Trailing Danger · Pennypacker
- The Millerson Case · Zeke Zilch
- The Law Comes to Gunsight · Bert Simpson
- Buck Privates Come Home · Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
- Yankee Fakir · Charlie
- Trail Street · Eben Bowen (uncredited)
- The Thirteenth Hour · McCabe
- Son of Zorro · Judge Hyde
- It's a Wonderful Life · Ed (uncredited)
- The People's Choice
- The Secret of the Whistler
- Gallant Journey · Husband (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Mr. Valentine · Frank Gary, Henchman
- The Killers · Hood with Cane (uncredited)
- Traffic in Crime · Counter Man
- Dangerous Business · Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
- King of the Forest Rangers · Hiram Bailey
- Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways · Retner
- Deadline at Dawn · Waiter (uncredited)
- Fear · House Painter
- Up Goes Maisie · Fireman (Uncredited)
- A Guy Could Change · Newsboy
- Girl on the Spot · Pickpocket (uncredited)
- Johnny Angel · Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
- Jungle Raiders · Charley
- Along Came Jones · Townsman (uncredited)
- The Jungle Captive · Jim
- The Great John L. · Waiter (uncredited)
- The Power of the Whistler · Bit Part
- Escape in the Fog · George Smith
- Frisco Sal · McKinney
- The Suspect · Cabbie (uncredited)
- Brenda Starr, Reporter · Charlie (uncredited)
- I Love a Mystery · Gimpy (Uncredited)
- The Man in Half Moon Street · Porter
- Murder, My Sweet · Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
- Ghost Guns · Doc Edwards
- The Climax · Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
- Goin' to Town · Zeke
- Raiders of Ghost City · Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
- Return of the Ape Man · Tramp, Willie the Weasel
- Arizona Whirlwind · Warren, the Jewel Cutter
- Raiders of the Border · Whiskey Wiley
- Marshal of Gunsmoke · Nuggett Newcomb
- The Phantom · Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
- Mystery Broadcast · Radio Writer in Cafe (uncredited)
- Phony Express · The Banker (uncredited)
- Hail to the Rangers · Latham
- Headin' for God's Country · Chuck
- Beyond the Last Frontier · 'Sarge' Kincaid
- Mission to Moscow · Heckler (uncredited)
- Sagebrush Law · Landers
- Murder in Times Square · Horsetooth
- Keep 'Em Slugging · Dugan
- Mug Town · Thief
- The Lone Prairie · Judge Barstow
- Bandit Ranger · Kenyon's Clerk (uncredited)
- Isle of Missing Men · Captain of the S. S. Mariposa
- Sabotage Squad · Smoke Shop Customer
- The Pride of the Yankees · Miller Huggins
- One Thrilling Night · Pete Mooney
- The Tuttles of Tahiti · Paki
- Cactus Makes Perfect · Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
- Alias Boston Blackie · Pop - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- Riding the Wind · Jones
- Man With Two Lives · Gimpy
- Stagecoach Buckaroo
- The Lady Is Willing · Doorman (uncredited)
- The Man Who Returned to Life · Ezra Smith
- The Man Who Came to Dinner · Michaelson (uncredited)
- Road Agent · Jake
- Honolulu Lu · Pierre
- Swamp Woman · Spratt