Ernie Adams
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.
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Movies (50)
The Last Round-up
as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
1947
The Black Widow
as Blinky
1947
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
as Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
1947
Robin Hood of Monterey
as Pablo
1947
The Pretender
as Thomas the butler
1947
Killer Dill
as Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
1947
Desperate
as Villager (uncredited)
1947
Trailing Danger
as Pennypacker
1947
The Law Comes to Gunsight
as Bert Simpson
1947
Buck Privates Come Home
as Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
1947
Yankee Fakir
as Charlie
1947
Trail Street
as Eben Bowen (uncredited)
1947
The Thirteenth Hour
as McCabe
1947
Son of Zorro
as Judge Hyde
1947
It's a Wonderful Life
as Ed (uncredited)
1946
The People's Choice
1946
The Secret of the Whistler
1946
Gallant Journey
as Husband (uncredited)
1946
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
as Frank Gary, Henchman
1946
The Killers
as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
1946
Traffic in Crime
as Counter Man
1946
Dangerous Business
as Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
1946
King of the Forest Rangers
as Hiram Bailey
1946
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
as Retner
1946
Deadline at Dawn
as Waiter (uncredited)
1946
Fear
as House Painter
1946
Up Goes Maisie
as Fireman (Uncredited)
1946
A Guy Could Change
as Newsboy
1946
Johnny Angel
as Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
1945
Jungle Raiders
as Charley
1945
Along Came Jones
as Townsman (uncredited)
1945
The Jungle Captive
as Jim
1945
The Great John L.
as Waiter (uncredited)
1945
The Power of the Whistler
as Bit Part
1945
Escape in the Fog
as George Smith
1945
Frisco Sal
as McKinney
1945
The Suspect
as Cabbie (uncredited)
1945
Brenda Starr, Reporter
as Charlie (uncredited)
1945
I Love a Mystery
as Gimpy (Uncredited)
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Porter
1945
Murder, My Sweet
as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
1944
Ghost Guns
as Doc Edwards
1944
The Climax
as Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
1944
Goin' to Town
as Zeke
1944
Raiders of Ghost City
as Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
1944
Return of the Ape Man
as Tramp, Willie the Weasel
1944
Arizona Whirlwind
as Warren, the Jewel Cutter
1944
Raiders of the Border
as Whiskey Wiley
1944
Marshal of Gunsmoke
as Nuggett Newcomb
1944
The Phantom
as Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
1943