E. E. Clive
Edward E. Clive ( born August 28, 1879 in Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, † June 6, 1940 in North Hollywood, California ) was a British film and stage actor.
Life
Born in Wales, Edward E. Clive was on his father's wish actually become a doctor. He spent three years at St Bartholomew's Hospital employs, before then but at age 22 became an actor. In 1912 he went to the United States and came to including in Boston at the Orpheum Circuit. On Broadway, where, and later also in New York, he worked not only as an actor but also as a director and producer. Overall, he is said to have played in his career in more than 1150 pieces.
In 1933 he made his film debut in the horror film The Invisible Man, where he played a simple-minded village policeman with dialect. Clive was very appropriate because he could imitate well dialects, which stemmed from his theater tours throughout the UK for such roles. Most appearances by him were short, but even more striking. Clive often played comic versions of British stereotypes, such as a nervous driver in the crime classic The Hound of the Baskervilles, as well as its sequel The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as imagined police commissioner who want to arrest the wrong man. He regularly also portrayed British aristocrats, such as Sir Harry in Little Lord Fauntleroy. The role of the butler Clive embodied in the comedy The Findelmutter, as well as Bulldog Drummond's servant in several episodes of the crime series of the same name. One of his most famous roles he played as mayor in the horror drama The Bride of Frankenstein.
One of his last films was the Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice from 1940, in which Clive has held the role of Sir William Lucas. He died this summer at the age of 60 of a heart attack. Clive is survived by his wife Eleanor.