Ernie Adams
Born:June 17, 1885
Place of Birth:San Francisco, California, USA
Died:November 26, 1947
Known For:Acting
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
Acting
It's a Wonderful Life
Ed (uncredited)
1946
All Quiet on the Western Front
2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
1930
It Happened One Night
Bag Thief (uncredited)
1934
The Killers
Hood with Cane (uncredited)
1946
My Man Godfrey
Forgotten Man (uncredited)
1936
Murder, My Sweet
Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
1944