Ernie Adams
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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
Credits
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
as Ed (uncredited)
Arizona Gunfighter (1937)
as Grizzly Barr
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
It Happened One Night (1934)
as Bag Thief (uncredited)
Freaks (1932)
as Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
Law of the Ranger (1937)
as Zeke
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
as Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
Night Waitress (1936)
as Diner Who Gets Indigestion
The Gun Ranger (1936)
as Wally Smeed
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
as Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)
as Charlie (uncredited)
The Killers (1946)
as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
Fear (1946)
as House Painter
Road Gang (1936)
as Jeff - Convict with Bad Leg (uncredited)
Calling All Cars (1935)
as Reporter (uncredited)
Young Tom Edison (1940)
as Passenger Buying Maple Sugar
My Man Godfrey (1936)
as Forgotten Man (uncredited)
Little Caesar (1931)
as Cashier (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
as Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
So This Is Love (1928)
as Flash Tracy
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
as Miller Huggins
Along Came Jones (1945)
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
as Reporter (uncredited)
Road Agent (1941)
as Jake
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
as Doorman (uncredited)
You and Me (1938)
as Nick (uncredited)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Actor
In Old Cheyenne (1931)
as Henchman
Union Pacific (1939)
as Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
West of Cheyenne (1938)
as Henchman Shorty
Before I Hang (1940)
as Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
as Man in Audience (uncredited)
First Aid (1931)
as Joe
Phony Express (1943)
as The Banker (uncredited)
Swamp Woman (1941)
as Spratt
The Pretender (1947)
as Thomas the butler
Dark Command (1940)
as Townsman
She Married Her Boss (1935)
as Passerby
Little Miss Marker (1934)
as Bettor (uncredited)
Girl on the Spot (1946)
as Pickpocket (uncredited)
Exposed (1938)
as Bum
Men of the Hour (1935)
as Steve
Colorado Kid (1937)
as Bibben Tucker
A Lady's Profession (1933)
as One of the Colonel's Henchmen (uncredited)
The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
as McCabe
The Law of the Wild (1934)
as Henchman Raymond
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
as Michaelson (uncredited)
Lightnin' Crandall (1937)
as Texas May
The Suspect (1945)
as Cabbie (uncredited)
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
as Luva’s Henchman (uncredited)
Forgotten Faces (1928)
Actor
Speedy (1928)
as Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)
Escape in the Fog (1945)
as George Smith
The Climax (1944)
as Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
Tower of London (1939)
as Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
Invisible Ghost (1941)
as Jules Mason, caretaker
Night Beat (1931)
as Hymie Weissenkorn
Isle of Missing Men (1942)
as Captain of the S. S. Mariposa
Danger Valley (1937)
as Soapy
The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
as Doc Grover
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Trail Street (1947)
as Eben Bowen (uncredited)
Ridin' the Lone Trail (1937)
as Peters
Hail to the Rangers (1943)
as Latham
Stars Over Arizona (1937)
as Jimmy the Weasel
The Thundering Herd (1925)
as Jett Henchman (uncredited)
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
as Agency Employee (uncredited)
Men of Daring (1927)
as Ace
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
as Kelner - the Fink (uncredited)
The Millerson Case (1947)
as Zeke Zilch
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Heckler (uncredited)
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Miner
Westward Ho-Hum (1941)
Actor
There Goes My Heart (1938)
as Cafe Counterman (uncredited)
A Man About Town (1927)
as Cohort
Where the Buffalo Roam (1938)
as Henchman Bert / Stage Passenger
Is There Justice? (1931)
as Shorty Gray
A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
as Gambler
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
as Eddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)
Carnival (1935)
as Barker (uncredited)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
as (uncredited)
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
as Man Seeking a Light (uncredited)
Desperate (1947)
as Villager (uncredited)
Rollin' Plains (1938)
as Cain Moody
The Glass Key (1935)
as Bettor (uncredited)
The Prescott Kid (1934)
as Red Larsen
The Casino Murder Case (1935)
as Husband of Fat Lady at Auction (uncredited)
The Good Bad Girl (1931)
as One of Tyler's Thugs
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
as Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
Midnight Mary (1933)
as Court Photographer (uncredited)
One Thrilling Night (1942)
as Pete Mooney
Robin Hood of Monterey (1947)
as Pablo
Primrose Path (1940)
as Man in Bluebell (uncredited)
We're Not Dressing (1934)
as Sailor Tossing Cards (uncredited)
The Tip-Off (1931)
as Slug
The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
as Pat Kelly
San Quentin (1937)
as Fink
Down on the Farm (1938)
as Pony Concessioner
Frontier Pony Express (1939)
as Man at Deer Lodge Station
The Gay Defender (1927)
as Bart Hamby
The People's Choice (1946)
Actor
Mystery Broadcast (1943)
as Radio Writer in Cafe (uncredited)
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
as Pete Daggett
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
as Workman
I Love a Mystery (1945)
as Gimpy (Uncredited)
Honolulu Lu (1941)
as Pierre
Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)
as Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
Three Chumps Ahead (1934)
as Pool Hall Attendant (uncredited)
Life Begins with Love (1937)
as Radical (uncredited)
Man With Two Lives (1942)
as Gimpy
Dodge City Trail (1936)
as Dillon
West of Singapore (1933)
as Watson
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Informer
The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
Actor
What a Night! (1928)
as Snarky
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
as Paki
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
Johnny Angel (1945)
as Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
Here Comes the Groom (1934)
as 1st Gunman
King of the Forest Rangers (1946)
as Hiram Bailey
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
as Porter
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946)
as Frank Gary, Henchman
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937)
as Red
Men Of America (1932)
as Wheels - Smokey's Gas Pumper
Down the Wyoming Trail (1939)
as Ernie Adams
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
as Chuck
For the Defense (1930)
as Eddie Withers
Out West with the Peppers (1940)
as Oscar - Telegraph Operator
The Storm (1930)
as Johnny Behind the 8-Ball
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
as Medicine Show Spectator
The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
as Dandy (uncredited)
The Phantom (1943)
as Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
Breed of the Border (1933)
as Joe
Girls of the Road (1940)
as Roadhouse Proprietor (Uncredited)
The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)
as Shifty Sheldon
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways (1946)
as Retner
Son of Zorro (1947)
as Judge Hyde
Anything for a Thrill (1937)
as The Runt - Henchman
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
as Bit Part
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
as Newsstand Clerk
Hair-Trigger Baxter (1926)
as Shorty Hillis
The Last Round-up (1947)
as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
as Tramp, Willie the Weasel
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
as Waiter (uncredited)
Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
as 'Sarge' Kincaid
Raiders of the Border (1944)
as Whiskey Wiley
Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
as Henchman Becker
Overland with Kit Carson (1939)
as Thor - Black Raiders Blacksmith
The Jury's Secret (1938)
as Sidewalk Heckler
The Officer and the Lady (1941)
as Car Thief (uncredited)
The Hurricane Express (1932)
as Barney
Men of the Night (1934)
as Sandy (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Sheriff (1937)
as Sheriff Rankin
Numbered Men (1930)
as Trustee with List (bit)
The Pride of the Legion (1932)
as Shorty
It's in the Air (1935)
as Counterman (uncredited)
Gallant Journey (1946)
as Husband (uncredited)
Hopalong Rides Again (1937)
as Keno
A Guy Could Change (1946)
as Newsboy
Murder in Times Square (1943)
as Horsetooth
The Galloping Ghost (1931)
as Brady
Sea Raiders (1941)
as Zeke
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
as Mustang
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
as Man Thrown out of Apartment Building
Curlytop (1924)
as Sproggs
Doomed at Sundown (1937)
as Deputy
Bar-Z Bad Men (1937)
as Henchman Pete
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
as Dugan
One Splendid Hour (1929)
as Solly
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
as Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
The Great John L. (1945)
as Waiter (uncredited)
Arizona Whirlwind (1944)
as Warren, the Jewel Cutter
I Stole a Million (1939)
as Mooch (uncredited)
King for a Night (1933)
as Pool Hall Crony
Robbers of the Range (1941)
as Greeley
The Man Who Returned to Life (1942)
as Ezra Smith
The Lost Jungle (1934)
as Pete
Radio Patrol (1937)
as Hobo
Land of Fighting Men (1938)
as Slim
The Ghost Rider (1935)
as Practical Joker
The Black Widow (1947)
as Blinky
Weary River (1929)
as Ex-Con in Alley (uncredited)
The Mighty (1929)
as Hood
The Law Comes to Gunsight (1947)
as Bert Simpson
Three on the Trail (1936)
as Idaho
Melting Millions (1927)
Actor
The Jungle Captive (1945)
as Jim
The Unwritten Law (1932)
as Ed Riley
A Woman's Way (1928)
as Pedro
Sundown on the Prairie (1939)
as Henchman Blackie
The Pinto Kid (1941)
as Ed Slade
The Miracle Rider (1935)
as John Stelter
A Regular Girl (1919)
as Shorty
Riding the Wind (1942)
as Jones
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
as Pop - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Sabotage Squad (1942)
as Smoke Shop Customer
The Man in the Barn (1937)
as Rowdy Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
Where the Worst Begins (1925)
Actor
Song of the Buckaroo (1938)
as Cashier
Thunder in the Desert (1938)
as Tramp
Code of the Streets (1939)
as Henchman
Mug Town (1942)
as Thief
Mandrake the Magician (1939)
as Brown
The Chaser (1938)
as Injured Man
Bandit Ranger (1942)
as Kenyon's Clerk (uncredited)
Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942)
Actor
Stool Pigeon (1928)
as Dropper
The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
as Blake
Crash Donovan (1936)
as Mechanic (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir (1947)
as Charlie
Ex-Champ (1939)
as Street Cleaner
Outlaw Express (1938)
as Express Rider
Whirlpool (1934)
as Ben (uncredited)
Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924)
as The Cashier's Father (uncredited)
Sagebrush Law (1943)
as Landers
Badge of Honor (1934)
as 'Tip' Crane
One Man Law (1931)
as Stubb
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
as Assayer Benson
Galloping Romeo (1933)
as Andy Kent
Hell Bent for Love (1934)
as Henchman Joe Barnard
Fair Warning (1931)
as Jordan
Ranger's Code (1933)
as Nat the Bat
Trailing Danger (1947)
as Pennypacker
The Devil Commands (1941)
as Elam
Traffic in Crime (1946)
as Counter Man
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
as Fireman (Uncredited)
Nevada (1927)
as Cash Burridge
Exclusive Story (1936)
as Bartender (uncredited)
Frisco Sal (1945)
as McKinney
The Man from Sundown (1939)
as Shorty Bates
The Pony Express (1925)
as Henchman (uncredited)
Goin' to Town (1944)
as Zeke
The Show (1922)
as Magician / Audience Member (uncredited)
California Frontier (1938)
as Barclay
Jungle Raiders (1945)
as Charley
The Undie-World (1934)
as T.N.T. Room Checkroom Attendant
Ghost Guns (1944)
as Doc Edwards
Woman Unafraid (1934)
as Henchman
On Ze Boulevard (1927)
as Valet
The Invisible Killer (1939)
as Squint, the Croupier
The Beloved Brute (1924)
as Swink Tuckson
Dangerous Business (1946)
as Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
The Perfect Clue (1935)
as Butch Carter
Yukon Flight (1940)
as Henry
The Fargo Kid (1940)
as Bush Cleveland
Shadow Ranch (1930)
as Henchman Joe
Marshal of Gunsmoke (1944)
as Nuggett Newcomb
Trigger Pals (1939)
as Henchman Pete
Made on Broadway (1933)
as Elmer - Jeff's Chauffeur
Gun Packer (1938)
as Jim Lee - Stage Driver
Beyond the Rockies (1932)
as Blinky
Leaping Love (1929)
as George - The Drunk (uncredited)
Found Alive (1933)
as C.S. King
Panama Flo (1932)
as Jake - Speakeasy Doorman
The Best People (1925)
as Taxi Driver
The Frame-Up (1937)
as Horse Player (uncredited)
Killer Dill (1947)
as Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
The Lone Prairie (1942)
as Judge Barstow
Pals in Paradise (1926)
as Butterfly Kid
The Phantom Stage (1939)
as Henchman Runt (Stage Guard in Credits)
The Fighting Legion (1930)
as Jack Bowie
The Blackbird (1926)
as Bertie's No. 2 Man
The Mexicali Kid (1938)
as Carl--Gorson's Bookkeeper
The Red Shadow (1932)
Actor
The Main Event (1927)
as Slug-nutty fighter
Riders from Nowhere (1940)
as Manny