Personal Info
Birth date
1885-06-17 (140 Years)
Day of death
1947-11-26
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known as
Ernest S. Adams
Ernie S. Adams
Ernest Adams
Ernest Stephen Dumarais
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.
Filmography
It's a Wonderful Life
8.3
Overview:
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.All Quiet on the Western Front
7.748
Overview:
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.Freaks
7.795
Overview:
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.It Happened One Night
7.831
Overview:
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.My Man Godfrey
7.551
Overview:
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.Man With Two Lives
5.3
Overview:
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.The Killers
7.366
Overview:
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.You and Me
6.679
Overview:
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.Murder, My Sweet
7.23
Overview:
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.Dark Command
6.3
Overview:
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.Union Pacific
6.5
Overview:
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?The Pride of the Yankees
7.36
Overview:
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.The Son of Monte Cristo
5.636
Overview:
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
5.4
Overview:
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.Buck Privates Come Home
6.3
Overview:
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.Little Caesar
6.876
Overview:
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?Invisible Ghost
5.147
Overview:
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.Wells Fargo
5.154
Overview:
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.Along Came Jones
5.7
Overview:
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.The Invisible Man Returns
6.2
Overview:
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.Tower of London
5.93
Overview:
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.Young Mr. Lincoln
7.199
Overview:
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.The Suspect
6.7
Overview:
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.The Unwritten Law
NYR
Overview:
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.She Done Him Wrong
5.806
Overview:
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.The Man Who Came to Dinner
6.9
Overview:
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
6.85
Overview:
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.Acting
1947The Last Round-up as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
1947The Black Widow as Blinky
1947Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
1947Robin Hood of Monterey as Pablo
1947The Pretender as Thomas the butler
1947Killer Dill as Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
1947Desperate as Villager (uncredited)
1947Trailing Danger as Pennypacker
1947The Law Comes to Gunsight as Bert Simpson
1947Buck Privates Come Home as Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
1947Yankee Fakir as Charlie
1947The Thirteenth Hour as McCabe
1947Son of Zorro as Judge Hyde
1946It's a Wonderful Life as Ed (uncredited)
1946The Secret of the Whistler as Unknown
1946Gallant Journey as Husband (uncredited)
1946The Mysterious Mr. Valentine as Frank Gary, Henchman
1946The Killers as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
1946Traffic in Crime as Counter Man
1946Dangerous Business as Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
1946King of the Forest Rangers as Hiram Bailey
1946Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways as Retner
1946Deadline at Dawn as Waiter (uncredited)
1946Fear as House Painter
1946Up Goes Maisie as Fireman (Uncredited)
1946A Guy Could Change as Newsboy
1945Johnny Angel as Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
1945Jungle Raiders as Charley
1945Along Came Jones as Townsman (uncredited)
1945The Jungle Captive as Jim
1945The Great John L. as Waiter (uncredited)
1945The Power of the Whistler as Bit Part
1945Escape in the Fog as George Smith
1945Frisco Sal as McKinney
1945The Suspect as Cabbie (uncredited)
1945Brenda Starr, Reporter as Charlie (uncredited)
1945I Love a Mystery as Gimpy (Uncredited)
1945The Man in Half Moon Street as Porter
1944Murder, My Sweet as Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
1944Ghost Guns as Doc Edwards
1944The Climax as Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
1944Goin' to Town as Zeke
1944Raiders of Ghost City as Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
1944Return of the Ape Man as Tramp, Willie the Weasel
1944Arizona Whirlwind as Warren, the Jewel Cutter
1944Raiders of the Border as Whiskey Wiley
1944Marshal of Gunsmoke as Nuggett Newcomb
1943The Phantom as Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
1943Mystery Broadcast as Radio Writer in Cafe (uncredited)
1943Phony Express as The Banker (uncredited)
1943Hail to the Rangers as Latham
1943Headin' for God's Country as Chuck
1943Beyond the Last Frontier as 'Sarge' Kincaid
1943Mission to Moscow as Heckler (uncredited)
1943Sagebrush Law as Landers
1943Murder in Times Square as Horsetooth
1943Keep 'Em Slugging as Dugan
1942Mug Town as Thief
1942The Lone Prairie as Judge Barstow
1942Bandit Ranger as Kenyon's Clerk (uncredited)
1942Isle of Missing Men as Captain of the S. S. Mariposa
1942Sabotage Squad as Smoke Shop Customer
1942The Pride of the Yankees as Miller Huggins
1942One Thrilling Night as Pete Mooney
1942The Tuttles of Tahiti as Paki
1942Cactus Makes Perfect as Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
1942Alias Boston Blackie as Pop - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1942Riding the Wind as Jones
1942Man With Two Lives as Gimpy
1942Stagecoach Buckaroo as Unknown
1942The Lady Is Willing as Doorman (uncredited)
1942The Man Who Returned to Life as Ezra Smith
1941The Man Who Came to Dinner as Michaelson (uncredited)
1941Road Agent as Jake
1941Honolulu Lu as Pierre
1941Swamp Woman as Spratt
1941Sea Raiders as Zeke
1941The Officer and the Lady as Car Thief (uncredited)
1941Westward Ho-Hum as Unknown
1941Bad Man of Deadwood as Medicine Show Spectator
1941The Devil Commands as Elam
1941Riders of Death Valley as Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
1941Invisible Ghost as Jules Mason, caretaker
1941Robbers of the Range as Greeley
1941The Sea Wolf as Unknown
1941Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie as Mustang
1941The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Newsstand Clerk
1941The Pinto Kid as Ed Slade
1941The Face Behind the Mask as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1940Riders from Nowhere as Manny
1940The Fargo Kid as Bush Cleveland
1940The Son of Monte Cristo as Informer
1940Before I Hang as Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
1940He Stayed for Breakfast as Workman
1940Girls of the Road as Roadhouse Proprietor (Uncredited)
1940Out West with the Peppers as Oscar - Telegraph Operator
1940The Man from Tumbleweeds as Shifty Sheldon
1940The Man with Nine Lives as Pete Daggett
1940Dark Command as Townsman
1940Primrose Path as Man in Bluebell (uncredited)
1940Young Tom Edison as Passenger Buying Maple Sugar
1940Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe as (uncredited)
1940Castle on the Hudson as Kelner - the Fink (uncredited)
1940The Invisible Man Returns as Minor Role (uncredited)
1940Yukon Flight as Henry
1939Tower of London as Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
1939The Invisible Killer as Squint, the Croupier
1939I Stole a Million as Mooch (uncredited)
1939Overland with Kit Carson as Thor - Black Raiders Blacksmith
1939The Man from Sundown as Shorty Bates
1939Down the Wyoming Trail as Ernie Adams
1939Young Mr. Lincoln as Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
1939Ex-Champ as Street Cleaner
1939Mandrake the Magician as Brown
1939Union Pacific as Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
1939Code of the Streets as Henchman
1939Frontier Pony Express as Man at Deer Lodge Station
1939The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Doc Grover
1939You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Eddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)
1939The Phantom Stage as Henchman Runt (Stage Guard in Credits)
1939Sundown on the Prairie as Henchman Blackie
1939Trigger Pals as Henchman Pete
1938California Frontier as Barclay
1938Song of the Buckaroo as Cashier
1938Gun Packer as Jim Lee - Stage Driver
1938Exposed as Bum
1938Land of Fighting Men as Slim
1938There Goes My Heart as Cafe Counterman (uncredited)
1938Where the Buffalo Roam as Henchman Bert / Stage Passenger
1938Down on the Farm as Pony Concessioner
1938The Mexicali Kid as Carl--Gorson's Bookkeeper
1938The Chaser as Injured Man
1938Rollin' Plains as Cain Moody
1938Outlaw Express as Express Rider
1938You and Me as Nick (uncredited)
1938Thunder in the Desert as Tramp
1938The Purple Vigilantes as Blake
1938The Jury's Secret as Sidewalk Heckler
1937Wells Fargo as Miner
1937Tim Tyler's Luck as Henchman Becker
1937Colorado Kid as Bibben Tucker
1937The Man in the Barn as Rowdy Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
1937Danger Valley as Soapy
1937Life Begins with Love as Radical (uncredited)
1937Radio Patrol as Hobo
1937Arizona Gunfighter as Grizzly Barr
1937Stars Over Arizona as Jimmy the Weasel
1937Ridin' the Lone Trail as Peters
1937Hopalong Rides Again as Keno
1937Doomed at Sundown as Deputy
1937Anything for a Thrill as The Runt - Henchman
1937Two-Fisted Sheriff as Sheriff Rankin
1937San Quentin as Fink
1937Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin as Red
1937Law of the Ranger as Zeke
1937The Frame-Up as Horse Player (uncredited)
1937Bar-Z Bad Men as Henchman Pete
1937Lightnin' Crandall as Texas May
1936Night Waitress as Diner Who Gets Indigestion
1936Dodge City Trail as Dillon
1936The Gun Ranger as Wally Smeed
1936Hopalong Cassidy Returns as Assayer Benson
1936My Man Godfrey as Forgotten Man (uncredited)
1936Crash Donovan as Mechanic (uncredited)
1936Three on the Trail as Idaho
1936Road Gang as Jeff - Convict with Bad Leg (uncredited)
1936Exclusive Story as Bartender (uncredited)
1935It's in the Air as Counterman (uncredited)
1935She Married Her Boss as Passerby
1935The Glass Key as Bettor (uncredited)
1935The Miracle Rider as John Stelter
1935The Ghost Rider as Practical Joker
1935The Perfect Clue as Butch Carter
1935Carnival as Barker
1935Calling All Cars as Reporter (uncredited)
1934Men of the Night as Sandy (uncredited)
1934Prescott Kid as Red Larsen
1934The Law of the Wild as Henchman Raymond
1934Three Chumps Ahead as Pool Hall Attendant (uncredited)
1934Here Comes the Groom as 1st Gunman
1934Little Miss Marker as Bettor (uncredited)
1934Hell Bent for Love as Henchman Joe Barnard
1934A Very Honorable Guy as Gambler
1934The Undie-World as T.N.T. Room Checkroom Attendant
1934Badge of Honor as 'Tip' Crane
1934Woman Unafraid as Henchman
1934The Lost Jungle as Pete
1934It Happened One Night as Bag Thief (uncredited)
1933King for a Night as Pool Hall Crony
1933Ranger's Code as Nat the Bat
1933Galloping Romeo as Andy Kent
1933Midnight Mary as Court Photographer (uncredited)
1933Made on Broadway as Elmer - Jeff's Chauffeur
1933The Kiss Before the Mirror as Man Seeking a Light (uncredited)
1933Found Alive as C.S. King
1933A Lady's Profession as One of the Colonel's Henchmen (uncredited)
1933Breed of the Border as Joe
1933She Done Him Wrong as Man in Audience (uncredited)
1933Hallelujah, I'm a Bum as Man Thrown out of Apartment Building
1933West of Singapore as Watson
1932The Unwritten Law as Ed Riley
1932Men Of America as Wheels - Smokey's Gas Pumper
1932The Pride of the Legion as Shorty
1932The Hurricane Express as Barney
1932Beyond the Rockies as Blinky
1932Million Dollar Legs as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
1932Merrily We Go to Hell as Reporter (uncredited)
1932The Shadow of the Eagle as Pat Kelly
1932The Red Shadow as Unknown
1932Panama Flo as Jake - Speakeasy Doorman
1932Freaks as Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
1931Night Beat as Hymie Weissenkorn
1931One Man Law as Stubb
1931The Tip-Off as Slug
1931The Galloping Ghost as Brady
1931In Old Cheyenne as Henchman
1931The Good Bad Girl as One of Tyler's Thugs
1931Dance, Fools, Dance as Luva’s Henchman (uncredited)
1931Fair Warning as Jordan
1931Little Caesar as Cashier (uncredited)
1930Shadow Ranch as Henchman Joe
1930The Storm as Johnny Behind the 8-Ball
1930For the Defense as Eddie Withers
1930Numbered Men as Trustee with List (uncredited)
1930All Quiet on the Western Front as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
1930The Fighting Legion as Jack Bowie
1929The Mighty as Hood
1929Leaping Love as George - The Drunk (uncredited)
1929One Splendid Hour as Solly
1929Weary River as Ex-Con in Alley (uncredited)
1928What a Night! as Snarky
1928Stool Pigeon as Dropper
1928Speedy as Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)
1928A Woman's Way as Pedro
1928So This Is Love as Flash Tracy
1927The Gay Defender as Bart Hamby
1927The Main Event as Slug-nutty fighter
1927Nevada as Cash Burridge
1927On Ze Boulevard as Valet
1927Men of Daring as Ace
1927A Man About Town as Cohort
1926Pals in Paradise as Butterfly Kid
1926The Amateur Gentleman as Dandy (uncredited)
1926The Blackbird as Bertie's No. 2 Man
1925The Best People as Taxi Driver
1925Where the Worst Begins as Unknown
1925The Pony Express as Henchman
1925The Thundering Herd as Jett Henchman (uncredited)
1924Curlytop as Sproggs
1924The Beloved Brute as Swink Tuckson
1924Ten Dollars or Ten Days as The Cashier's Father (uncredited)
1922The Show as Magician / Audience Member (uncredited)
1919The Delicious Little Devil as Agency Employee (uncredited)