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