E.E. Clive
Biography
E. E. Clive was a Welsh-born stage actor and director who became a familiar Hollywood supporting player. Born in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, he left medical training at twenty-two and spent a decade touring British provinces, gaining command of regional dialects. After moving to the United States in 1912, he worked in Orpheum vaudeville and formed a Boston stock company that later operated in Hollywood. His film debut was a village constable in The Invisible Man (1933). He then took wry supporting and bit parts, often comic English stereotypes or humorless authority figures, and was known for butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies. He played the incompetent Burgomaster in James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), one of his best-known roles, and appeared repeatedly as Tenny the Butler in the Bulldog Drummond series with John Howard. Later credits included The Little Princess (1939), the first two Sherlock Holmes pictures with Basil Rathbone, and Pride and Prejudice (1940) as Sir William Lucas.
60years old at death
- Born Blaenavon
- Died North Hollywood
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Edward E. Clive and Edward Erskholme Clive
Movie Career
- Films
- 29
- Career span
- 7 years1933 to 1940
Genres
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A change of course
Clive moved to the U.S. in 1912 and worked the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. He then started his own stock company in Boston, and by the 1920s it was running in Hollywood with players like Rosalind Russell.
First role
Clive played a village police constable in The Invisible Man in 1933, his first film, alongside Claude Rains. Over the next seven years he appeared in wry supporting and bit parts.
E.E. Clive movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
James P. Hogan directed four of these films, Louis King three and James Whale two. Reginald Denny appears in seven of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Reginald Denny's page
John Howard's page
Jimmy Aubrey's page
Matthew Boulton's page
Eily Malyon's page
Clyde Cook's page
James P. HoganDirector, 4 films, 1937 to 1939
All films by James P. Hogan
Louis KingDirector, 3 films, 1937 to 1938
All films by Louis King
James WhaleDirector, 2 films, 1933 to 1935
All films by James Whale
Also five films together1 more actor
- Heather AngelPride and Prejudice (1940), Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939), Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939), Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938) and Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What E.E. Clive's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$10.6 million
7 of the 29 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 29 films: 7 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 21 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 21Figure not found
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$2.7M25.8% of the total
- 2$2.0M18.9% of the total
- 3$2.0M18.6% of the total
- 4$1.8M17.0% of the total
- 5$1.0M9.8% of the total
- 6$1.0M9.6% of the total
- 7$27K0.3% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.