Ernie Adams
Acting
Born: 1885-06-17 in San Francisco, California, USA
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
It's a Wonderful Life
Ed (uncredited)
It Happened One Night
Bag Thief (uncredited)
Freaks
Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
All Quiet on the Western Front
2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
The Killers
Hood with Cane (uncredited)
My Man Godfrey
Forgotten Man (uncredited)
Little Caesar
Cashier (uncredited)
Murder, My Sweet
Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
Miller Huggins
The Invisible Man Returns
Minor Role (uncredited)
She Done Him Wrong
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Speedy
Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Michaelson (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
The Sea Wolf
The Suspect
Cabbie (uncredited)
Dark Command
Townsman
Invisible Ghost
Jules Mason, caretaker
Tower of London
Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
Reporter (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
You and Me
Nick (uncredited)
Desperate
Villager (uncredited)
Along Came Jones
Townsman (uncredited)
The Climax
Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
Escape in the Fog
George Smith
Deadline at Dawn
Waiter (uncredited)
Before I Hang
Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
The Devil Commands
Elam
San Quentin
Fink
Buck Privates Come Home
Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
Johnny Angel
Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
Midnight Mary
Court Photographer (uncredited)
Little Miss Marker
Bettor (uncredited)
Primrose Path
Man in Bluebell (uncredited)
The Man with Nine Lives
Pete Daggett
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
(uncredited)
The Blackbird
Bertie's No. 2 Man