Ernie Adams
Known for Acting · 268 credits
- Born
- 1885-06-17
- Died
- 1947-11-26
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Ernest S. Adams · Ernie S. Adams · Ernest Adams · Ernest Stephen Dumarais
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.
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Known For
Movies (268)
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
as Ed (uncredited)
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)
Arizona Gunfighter
1937
as Grizzly Barr
Fear
1946
as House Painter
Night Beat
1931
as Hymie Weissenkorn
Phony Express
1943
as The Banker (uncredited)
The Killers
1946
as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
Little Miss Marker
1934
as Bettor (uncredited)
Lightnin' Crandall
1937
as Texas May
The Invisible Man Returns
1940
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
as Reporter (uncredited)
Little Caesar
1931
as Cashier (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Miller Huggins
First Aid
1931
as Joe
Swamp Woman
1941
as Spratt
Along Came Jones
1945
as Townsman (uncredited)
My Man Godfrey
1936
as Forgotten Man (uncredited)
Colorado Kid
1937
as Bibben Tucker
Road Agent
1941
as Jake
Exposed
1938
as Bum
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
as Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
Cactus Makes Perfect
1942
as Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
She Married Her Boss
1935
as Passerby
Union Pacific
1939
as Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
Murder, My Sweet
1944
as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Road Gang
1936
as Jeff - Convict with Bad Leg (uncredited)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947
as Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
A Lady's Profession
1933
as One of the Colonel's Henchmen (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
as Michaelson (uncredited)
The Prescott Kid
1934
as Red Larsen
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
as Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
The Millerson Case
1947
as Zeke Zilch
Dark Command
1940
as Townsman
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938
as Henchman Bert / Stage Passenger
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Informer
The Sea Wolf
1941
Night Waitress
1936
as Diner Who Gets Indigestion
Rollin' Plains
1938
as Cain Moody
Before I Hang
1940
as Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
Young Tom Edison
1940
as Passenger Buying Maple Sugar
Is There Justice?
1931
as Shorty Gray
Primrose Path
1940
as Man in Bluebell (uncredited)
Isle of Missing Men
1942
as Captain of the S. S. Mariposa
The Jungle Captive
1945
as Jim
West of Cheyenne
1938
as Henchman Shorty
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940
as (uncredited)
Westward Ho-Hum
1941
Midnight Mary
1933
as Court Photographer (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Law of the Ranger
1937
as Zeke
Wells Fargo
1937
as Miner
So This Is Love
1928
as Flash Tracy
The Man with Nine Lives
1940
as Pete Daggett
Trail Street
1947
as Eben Bowen (uncredited)
The People's Choice
1946
The Hurricane Express
1932
as Barney
Girl on the Spot
1946
as Pickpocket (uncredited)
Down on the Farm
1938
as Pony Concessioner
The Suspect
1945
as Cabbie (uncredited)
The Gay Defender
1927
as Bart Hamby
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
as Workman
You and Me
1938
as Nick (uncredited)
Invisible Ghost
1941
as Jules Mason, caretaker
Tower of London
1939
as Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
The Thirteenth Hour
1947
as McCabe
Mission to Moscow
1943
as Heckler (uncredited)
The Thundering Herd
1925
as Jett Henchman (uncredited)
The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933
as Man Seeking a Light (uncredited)
The Climax
1944
as Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
The Last Round-up
1947
as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
as Assayer Benson
Ridin' the Lone Trail
1937
as Peters
The Shadow of the Eagle
1932
as Pat Kelly
She Done Him Wrong
1933
as Man in Audience (uncredited)
The Pretender
1947
as Thomas the butler
There Goes My Heart
1938
as Cafe Counterman (uncredited)
Riders of Death Valley
1941
as Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
What a Night!
1928
as Snarky
The Tip-Off
1931
as Slug
The Lady Is Willing
1942
as Doorman (uncredited)
The Good Bad Girl
1931
as One of Tyler's Thugs
West of Singapore
1933
as Watson
Hair-Trigger Baxter
1926
as Shorty Hillis
The Phantom
1943
as Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
as Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
Men Of America
1932
as Wheels - Smokey's Gas Pumper
Desperate
1947
as Villager (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson
1940
as Kelner - the Fink (uncredited)
Raiders of the Border
1944
as Whiskey Wiley
A Guy Could Change
1946
as Newsboy
The Devil Commands
1941
as Elam
A Man About Town
1927
as Cohort
Danger Valley
1937
as Soapy
In Old Cheyenne
1931
as Henchman
The Law of the Wild
1934
as Henchman Raymond
One Thrilling Night
1942
as Pete Mooney
Million Dollar Legs
1932
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
Return of the Ape Man
1944
as Tramp, Willie the Weasel
San Quentin
1937
as Fink
Here Comes the Groom
1934
as 1st Gunman
I Stole a Million
1939
as Mooch (uncredited)
The Casino Murder Case
1935
as Husband of Fat Lady at Auction (uncredited)
Brenda Starr, Reporter
1945
as Charlie (uncredited)
Man With Two Lives
1942
as Gimpy
The Delicious Little Devil
1919
as Agency Employee (uncredited)
Gallant Journey
1946
as Husband (uncredited)
Murder in Times Square
1943
as Horsetooth
We're Not Dressing
1934
as Sailor Tossing Cards (uncredited)
The Chaser
1938
as Injured Man
The Gun Ranger
1936
as Wally Smeed
The Secret of the Whistler
1946
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
as Shifty Sheldon
Calling All Cars
1935
as Reporter (uncredited)
Code of the Streets
1939
as Henchman
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
as Luva’s Henchman (uncredited)
One Splendid Hour
1929
as Solly
Robin Hood of Monterey
1947
as Pablo
Mandrake the Magician
1939
as Brown
About 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 191… With 268 credits spanning from 1919 to 1947, Ernie Adams has appeared in 268 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Freaks (1932) — as Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
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