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 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: Acting

Born: San Francisco, California, USA, 1885-06-17

Died: 1947-11-26

Ernie Adams

Film

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1919	The Delicious Little Devil	Agency Employee (uncredited)	56
2	1922	The Show	Magician / Audience Member (uncredited)	65
3	1924	Ten Dollars or Ten Days	The Cashier's Father (uncredited)	45
4	1924	The Beloved Brute	Swink Tuckson	0
5	1924	Curlytop	Sproggs	0
6	1925	The Thundering Herd	Jett Henchman (uncredited)	0
7	1925	The Pony Express	Henchman	59
8	1925	Where the Worst Begins		0
9	1925	The Best People	Taxi Driver	0
10	1926	The Blackbird	Bertie's No. 2 Man	63
11	1926	The Amateur Gentleman	Dandy (uncredited)	0
12	1926	Pals in Paradise	Butterfly Kid	60
13	1927	A Man About Town	Cohort	0
14	1927	Men of Daring	Ace	0
15	1927	On Ze Boulevard	Valet	0
16	1927	Nevada	Cash Burridge	60
17	1927	The Main Event	Slug-nutty fighter	0
18	1927	The Gay Defender	Bart Hamby	0
19	1928	So This Is Love	Flash Tracy	53
20	1928	A Woman's Way	Pedro	0
21	1928	Speedy	Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)	73
22	1928	Stool Pigeon	Dropper	0
23	1928	What a Night!	Snarky	0
24	1929	Weary River	Ex-Con in Alley (uncredited)	57
25	1929	One Splendid Hour	Solly	0
26	1929	Leaping Love	George - The Drunk (uncredited)	0
27	1929	The Mighty	Hood	50
28	1930	The Fighting Legion	Jack Bowie	0
29	1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)	78
30	1930	Numbered Men	Trustee with List (uncredited)	46
31	1930	For the Defense	Eddie Withers	48
32	1930	The Storm	Johnny Behind the 8-Ball	50
33	1930	Shadow Ranch	Henchman Joe	60
34	1931	Little Caesar	Cashier (uncredited)	69
35	1931	Fair Warning	Jordan	0
36	1931	Dance, Fools, Dance	Luva’s Henchman (uncredited)	64
37	1931	The Good Bad Girl	One of Tyler's Thugs	55
38	1931	In Old Cheyenne	Henchman	0
39	1931	The Galloping Ghost	Brady	20
40	1931	The Tip-Off	Slug	52
41	1931	One Man Law	Stubb	50
42	1931	Night Beat	Hymie Weissenkorn	55
43	1932	Freaks	Sideshow Patron (uncredited)	78
44	1932	Panama Flo	Jake - Speakeasy Doorman	70
45	1932	The Red Shadow		0
46	1932	The Shadow of the Eagle	Pat Kelly	51
47	1932	Merrily We Go to Hell	Reporter (uncredited)	64
48	1932	Beyond the Rockies	Blinky	55
49	1932	Million Dollar Legs	Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)	66
50	1932	The Hurricane Express	Barney	52
51	1932	The Pride of the Legion	Shorty	60
52	1932	Men Of America	Wheels - Smokey's Gas Pumper	40
53	1932	The Unwritten Law	Ed Riley	0
54	1933	West of Singapore	Watson	0
55	1933	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum	Man Thrown out of Apartment Building	74
56	1933	She Done Him Wrong	Man in Audience (uncredited)	58
57	1933	Breed of the Border	Joe	0
58	1933	A Lady's Profession	One of the Colonel's Henchmen (uncredited)	0
59	1933	Found Alive	C.S. King	0
60	1933	The Kiss Before the Mirror	Man Seeking a Light (uncredited)	55
61	1933	Made on Broadway	Elmer - Jeff's Chauffeur	65
62	1933	Midnight Mary	Court Photographer (uncredited)	68
63	1933	Galloping Romeo	Andy Kent	0
64	1933	Ranger's Code	Nat the Bat	0
65	1933	King for a Night	Pool Hall Crony	62
66	1934	It Happened One Night	Bag Thief (uncredited)	78
67	1934	The Lost Jungle	Pete	23
68	1934	Woman Unafraid	Henchman	50
69	1934	Badge of Honor	'Tip' Crane	44
70	1934	The Undie-World	T.N.T. Room Checkroom Attendant	90
71	1934	A Very Honorable Guy	Gambler	20
72	1934	Hell Bent for Love	Henchman Joe Barnard	0
73	1934	Little Miss Marker	Bettor (uncredited)	64
74	1934	Here Comes the Groom	1st Gunman	40
75	1934	Three Chumps Ahead	Pool Hall Attendant (uncredited)	0
76	1934	The Law of the Wild	Henchman Raymond	50
77	1934	Prescott Kid	Red Larsen	0
78	1934	Men of the Night	Sandy (uncredited)	20
79	1935	Calling All Cars	Reporter (uncredited)	20
80	1935	Carnival	Barker	0
81	1935	The Perfect Clue	Butch Carter	55
82	1935	The Ghost Rider	Practical Joker	50
83	1935	The Miracle Rider	John Stelter	43
84	1935	The Glass Key	Bettor (uncredited)	64
85	1935	She Married Her Boss	Passerby	70
86	1935	It's in the Air	Counterman (uncredited)	50
87	1936	Exclusive Story	Bartender (uncredited)	65
88	1936	Road Gang	Jeff - Convict with Bad Leg (uncredited)	65
89	1936	Three on the Trail	Idaho	50
90	1936	Crash Donovan	Mechanic (uncredited)	0
91	1936	My Man Godfrey	Forgotten Man (uncredited)	75
92	1936	Hopalong Cassidy Returns	Assayer Benson	63
93	1936	The Gun Ranger	Wally Smeed	0
94	1936	Dodge City Trail	Dillon	30
95	1936	Night Waitress	Diner Who Gets Indigestion	58
96	1937	Lightnin' Crandall	Texas May	20
97	1937	Bar-Z Bad Men	Henchman Pete	23
98	1937	The Frame-Up	Horse Player (uncredited)	60
99	1937	Law of the Ranger	Zeke	0
100	1937	Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin	Red	60
101	1937	San Quentin	Fink	65
102	1937	Two-Fisted Sheriff	Sheriff Rankin	20
103	1937	Anything for a Thrill	The Runt - Henchman	20
104	1937	Doomed at Sundown	Deputy	30
105	1937	Hopalong Rides Again	Keno	70
106	1937	Ridin' the Lone Trail	Peters	50
107	1937	Stars Over Arizona	Jimmy the Weasel	0
108	1937	Arizona Gunfighter	Grizzly Barr	38
109	1937	Radio Patrol	Hobo	0
110	1937	Life Begins with Love	Radical (uncredited)	50
111	1937	Danger Valley	Soapy	0
112	1937	The Man in the Barn	Rowdy Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)	53
113	1937	Colorado Kid	Bibben Tucker	40
114	1937	Tim Tyler's Luck	Henchman Becker	0
115	1937	Wells Fargo	Miner	52
116	1938	The Jury's Secret	Sidewalk Heckler	45
117	1938	The Purple Vigilantes	Blake	30
118	1938	Thunder in the Desert	Tramp	60
119	1938	You and Me	Nick (uncredited)	67
120	1938	Outlaw Express	Express Rider	10
121	1938	Rollin' Plains	Cain Moody	0
122	1938	The Chaser	Injured Man	60
123	1938	The Mexicali Kid	Carl--Gorson's Bookkeeper	50
124	1938	Down on the Farm	Pony Concessioner	0
125	1938	Where the Buffalo Roam	Henchman Bert / Stage Passenger	50
126	1938	There Goes My Heart	Cafe Counterman (uncredited)	71
127	1938	Land of Fighting Men	Slim	0
128	1938	Exposed	Bum	50
129	1938	Gun Packer	Jim Lee - Stage Driver	0
130	1938	Song of the Buckaroo	Cashier	0
131	1938	California Frontier	Barclay	0
132	1939	Trigger Pals	Henchman Pete	50
133	1939	Sundown on the Prairie	Henchman Blackie	0
134	1939	The Phantom Stage	Henchman Runt (Stage Guard in Credits)	0
135	1939	You Can't Cheat an Honest Man	Eddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)	69
136	1939	The Lone Ranger Rides Again	Doc Grover	60
137	1939	Frontier Pony Express	Man at Deer Lodge Station	40
138	1939	Code of the Streets	Henchman	70
139	1939	Union Pacific	Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)	65
140	1939	Mandrake the Magician	Brown	56
141	1939	Ex-Champ	Street Cleaner	60
142	1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)	72
143	1939	Down the Wyoming Trail	Ernie Adams	40
144	1939	The Man from Sundown	Shorty Bates	0
145	1939	Overland with Kit Carson	Thor - Black Raiders Blacksmith	5
146	1939	I Stole a Million	Mooch (uncredited)	60
147	1939	The Invisible Killer	Squint, the Croupier	40
148	1939	Tower of London	Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)	59
149	1940	Yukon Flight	Henry	39
150	1940	The Invisible Man Returns	Minor Role (uncredited)	62
151	1940	Castle on the Hudson	Kelner - the Fink (uncredited)	68
152	1940	Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe	(uncredited)	58
153	1940	Young Tom Edison	Passenger Buying Maple Sugar	56
154	1940	Primrose Path	Man in Bluebell (uncredited)	65
155	1940	Dark Command	Townsman	63
156	1940	The Man with Nine Lives	Pete Daggett	62
157	1940	The Man from Tumbleweeds	Shifty Sheldon	30
158	1940	Out West with the Peppers	Oscar - Telegraph Operator	57
159	1940	Girls of the Road	Roadhouse Proprietor (Uncredited)	50
160	1940	He Stayed for Breakfast	Workman	0
161	1940	Before I Hang	Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly	61
162	1940	The Son of Monte Cristo	Informer	56
163	1940	The Fargo Kid	Bush Cleveland	65
164	1940	Riders from Nowhere	Manny	60
165	1941	The Face Behind the Mask	Hotel Guest (uncredited)	65
166	1941	The Pinto Kid	Ed Slade	0
167	1941	The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance	Newsstand Clerk	60
168	1941	The Sea Wolf		71
169	1941	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie	Mustang	50
170	1941	Robbers of the Range	Greeley	70
171	1941	Invisible Ghost	Jules Mason, caretaker	51
172	1941	Riders of Death Valley	Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]	65
173	1941	The Devil Commands	Elam	62
174	1941	Bad Man of Deadwood	Medicine Show Spectator	44
175	1941	Westward Ho-Hum		0
176	1941	The Officer and the Lady	Car Thief (uncredited)	60
177	1941	Sea Raiders	Zeke	60
178	1941	Swamp Woman	Spratt	48
179	1941	Honolulu Lu	Pierre	42
180	1941	Road Agent	Jake	0
181	1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Michaelson (uncredited)	69
182	1942	The Man Who Returned to Life	Ezra Smith	60
183	1942	The Lady Is Willing	Doorman (uncredited)	66
184	1942	Stagecoach Buckaroo		50
185	1942	Man With Two Lives	Gimpy	53
186	1942	Riding the Wind	Jones	0
187	1942	Alias Boston Blackie	Pop - Stage Doorman (uncredited)	55
188	1942	Cactus Makes Perfect	Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)	57
189	1942	The Tuttles of Tahiti	Paki	55
190	1942	One Thrilling Night	Pete Mooney	52
191	1942	The Pride of the Yankees	Miller Huggins	74
192	1942	Sabotage Squad	Smoke Shop Customer	60
193	1942	Isle of Missing Men	Captain of the S. S. Mariposa	62
194	1942	Bandit Ranger	Kenyon's Clerk (uncredited)	35
195	1942	The Lone Prairie	Judge Barstow	0
196	1942	Mug Town	Thief	70
197	1943	Keep 'Em Slugging	Dugan	55
198	1943	Murder in Times Square	Horsetooth	46
199	1943	Sagebrush Law	Landers	60
200	1943	Mission to Moscow	Heckler (uncredited)	53
201	1943	Beyond the Last Frontier	'Sarge' Kincaid	0
202	1943	Headin' for God's Country	Chuck	0
203	1943	Hail to the Rangers	Latham	0
204	1943	Phony Express	The Banker (uncredited)	54
205	1943	Mystery Broadcast	Radio Writer in Cafe (uncredited)	62
206	1943	The Phantom	Rusty Fenton (uncredited)	62
207	1944	Marshal of Gunsmoke	Nuggett Newcomb	0
208	1944	Raiders of the Border	Whiskey Wiley	0
209	1944	Arizona Whirlwind	Warren, the Jewel Cutter	55
210	1944	Return of the Ape Man	Tramp, Willie the Weasel	54
211	1944	Raiders of Ghost City	Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper	60
212	1944	Goin' to Town	Zeke	0
213	1944	The Climax	Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)	54
214	1944	Ghost Guns	Doc Edwards	58
215	1944	Murder, My Sweet	Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)	72
216	1945	The Man in Half Moon Street	Porter	54
217	1945	I Love a Mystery	Gimpy (Uncredited)	61
218	1945	Brenda Starr, Reporter	Charlie (uncredited)	0
219	1945	The Suspect	Cabbie (uncredited)	67
220	1945	Frisco Sal	McKinney	40
221	1945	Escape in the Fog	George Smith	53
222	1945	The Power of the Whistler	Bit Part	58
223	1945	The Great John L.	Waiter (uncredited)	50
224	1945	The Jungle Captive	Jim	56
225	1945	Along Came Jones	Townsman (uncredited)	57
226	1945	Jungle Raiders	Charley	55
227	1945	Johnny Angel	Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)	59
228	1946	A Guy Could Change	Newsboy	0
229	1946	Up Goes Maisie	Fireman (Uncredited)	67
230	1946	Fear	House Painter	45
231	1946	Deadline at Dawn	Waiter (uncredited)	63
232	1946	Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways	Retner	37
233	1946	King of the Forest Rangers	Hiram Bailey	60
234	1946	Dangerous Business	Morgue Attendant (uncredited)	0
235	1946	Traffic in Crime	Counter Man	60
236	1946	The Killers	Hood with Cane (uncredited)	74
237	1946	The Mysterious Mr. Valentine	Frank Gary, Henchman	43
238	1946	Gallant Journey	Husband (uncredited)	61
239	1946	The Secret of the Whistler		59
240	1946	It's a Wonderful Life	Ed (uncredited)	83
241	1947	Son of Zorro	Judge Hyde	60
242	1947	The Thirteenth Hour	McCabe	58
243	1947	Yankee Fakir	Charlie	50
244	1947	Buck Privates Come Home	Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)	63
245	1947	The Law Comes to Gunsight	Bert Simpson	50
246	1947	Trailing Danger	Pennypacker	0
247	1947	Desperate	Villager (uncredited)	65
248	1947	Killer Dill	Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)	50
249	1947	The Pretender	Thomas the butler	55
250	1947	Robin Hood of Monterey	Pablo	59
251	1947	Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome	Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)	54
252	1947	The Black Widow	Blinky	49
253	1947	The Last Round-up	Taxicab Driver (uncredited)	60