Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 17, 1885
Died
Nov 26, 1947
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Credits
268 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Last Round-up
Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
The Black Widow
Blinky
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
Robin Hood of Monterey
Pablo
The Pretender
Thomas the butler
Killer Dill
Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
Desperate
Villager (uncredited)
The Millerson Case
Zeke Zilch
Trailing Danger
Pennypacker
The Law Comes to Gunsight
Bert Simpson
Buck Privates Come Home
Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir
Charlie
Trail Street
Eben Bowen (uncredited)
The Thirteenth Hour
McCabe
Son of Zorro
Judge Hyde
It's a Wonderful Life
Ed (uncredited)
The People's Choice
The Secret of the Whistler
Gallant Journey
Husband (uncredited)
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Frank Gary, Henchman
The Killers
Hood with Cane (uncredited)
Traffic in Crime
Counter Man
Dangerous Business
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
King of the Forest Rangers
Hiram Bailey
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Retner
Deadline at Dawn
Waiter (uncredited)
Fear
House Painter
Up Goes Maisie
Fireman (Uncredited)
A Guy Could Change
Newsboy
Girl on the Spot
Pickpocket (uncredited)
Johnny Angel
Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
Jungle Raiders
Charley
Along Came Jones
Townsman (uncredited)
The Jungle Captive
Jim
The Great John L.
Waiter (uncredited)
The Power of the Whistler
Bit Part
Escape in the Fog
George Smith
Frisco Sal
McKinney
The Suspect
Cabbie (uncredited)
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Charlie (uncredited)
I Love a Mystery
Gimpy (Uncredited)
The Man in Half Moon Street
Porter
Murder, My Sweet
Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Ghost Guns
Doc Edwards
The Climax
Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
Goin' to Town
Zeke
Raiders of Ghost City
Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
Return of the Ape Man
Tramp, Willie the Weasel
Arizona Whirlwind
Warren, the Jewel Cutter
Raiders of the Border
Whiskey Wiley