Ernie Adams
Actor
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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Filmography
It Happened One Night
as Bag Thief (uncredited) 1934
Freaks
as Sideshow Patron (uncredited) 1932
All Quiet on the Western Front
as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited) 1930
The Killers
as Hood with Cane (uncredited) 1946
My Man Godfrey
as Forgotten Man (uncredited) 1936
Little Caesar
as Cashier (uncredited) 1931
Murder, My Sweet
as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited) 1944
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited) 1939
The Invisible Man Returns
as Minor Role (uncredited) 1940
The Pride of the Yankees
as Miller Huggins 1942
She Done Him Wrong
as Man in Audience (uncredited) 1933
Speedy
as Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited) 1928
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Michaelson (uncredited) 1941
Union Pacific
as Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited) 1939
The Sea Wolf
1941
The Suspect
as Cabbie (uncredited) 1945