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

Film

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

Television

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