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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...
Known for
It's a Wonderful LifeMovie • 1946
It Happened One NightMovie • 1934
All Quiet on the Western FrontMovie • 1930
FreaksMovie • 1932
My Man GodfreyMovie • 1936
The KillersMovie • 1946
Young Mr. LincolnMovie • 1939
The Invisible Man ReturnsMovie • 1940
Buck Privates Come HomeMovie • 1947
The Pride of the YankeesMovie • 1942
Little CaesarMovie • 1931
The Sea WolfMovie • 1941
Tower of LondonMovie • 1939
Union PacificMovie • 1939
Dark CommandMovie • 1940
Little Miss MarkerMovie • 1934
The Man Who Came to DinnerMovie • 1941
Murder, My SweetMovie • 1944
Along Came JonesMovie • 1945
She Done Him WrongMovie • 1933
Dick Tracy Meets GruesomeMovie • 1947
Mission to MoscowMovie • 1943
The SuspectMovie • 1945
San QuentinMovie • 1937