Ernie Adams
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.
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Acting
Movie
It's a Wonderful Life
as Ed (uncredited)
1946
Movie
It Happened One Night
as Bag Thief (uncredited)
1934
Movie
Freaks
as Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
1932
Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
1930
Movie
The Killers
as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
1946
Movie
My Man Godfrey
as Forgotten Man (uncredited)
1936
Movie
Little Caesar
as Cashier (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Murder, My Sweet
as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Pride of the Yankees
as Miller Huggins
1942
Movie
The Invisible Man Returns
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1940
Movie
She Done Him Wrong
as Man in Audience (uncredited)
1933
Movie
Speedy
as Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)
1928
Movie
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Michaelson (uncredited)
1941
Movie
Union Pacific
as Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Suspect
as Cabbie (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The Sea Wolf
1941
Movie
Dark Command
as Townsman
1940
Movie
Invisible Ghost
as Jules Mason, caretaker
1941
Movie
Tower of London
as Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Reporter (uncredited)
1932
Movie
The Face Behind the Mask
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1941
Movie
You and Me
as Nick (uncredited)
1938
Movie
Desperate
as Villager (uncredited)
1947