Ernie Adams
Acting • Born 1885-06-17 – Died 1947-11-26
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
265 credits
Escape in the Fog
Movie • 1945
George Smith
The Pretender
Movie • 1947
Thomas the butler
Fear
Movie • 1946
House Painter
The Thirteenth Hour
Movie • 1947
McCabe
Hell Bent for Love
Movie • 1934
Henchman Joe Barnard
The Thundering Herd
Movie • 1925
Jett Henchman (uncredited)
Calling All Cars
Movie • 1935
Reporter (uncredited)
She Done Him Wrong
Movie • 1933
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Leaping Love
Movie • 1929
George - The Drunk (uncredited)
Land of Fighting Men
Movie • 1938
Slim
The Officer and the Lady
Movie • 1941
Car Thief (uncredited)
The Law of the Wild
Movie • 1934
Henchman Raymond
Prescott Kid
Movie • 1934
Red Larsen
Along Came Jones
Movie • 1945
Townsman (uncredited)
Little Miss Marker
Movie • 1934
Bettor (uncredited)
Stars Over Arizona
Movie • 1937
Jimmy the Weasel
The Power of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Bit Part
Song of the Buckaroo
Movie • 1938
Cashier
Men of Daring
Movie • 1927
Ace
The Man from Sundown
Movie • 1939
Shorty Bates
The Perfect Clue
Movie • 1935
Butch Carter
The Suspect
Movie • 1945
Cabbie (uncredited)
The Gay Defender
Movie • 1927
Bart Hamby
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Movie • 1946
Frank Gary, Henchman
The Fargo Kid
Movie • 1940
Bush Cleveland
The Hurricane Express
Movie • 1932
Barney
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie • 1941
Medicine Show Spectator
The Beloved Brute
Movie • 1924
Swink Tuckson
The Best People
Movie • 1925
Taxi Driver
A Woman's Way
Movie • 1928
Pedro
Rollin' Plains
Movie • 1938
Cain Moody
Swamp Woman
Movie • 1941
Spratt
The Unwritten Law
Movie • 1932
Ed Riley
Midnight Mary
Movie • 1933
Court Photographer (uncredited)
Return of the Ape Man
Movie • 1944
Tramp, Willie the Weasel
Overland with Kit Carson
Movie • 1939
Thor - Black Raiders Blacksmith
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Movie • 1946
Retner
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Movie • 1945
Charlie (uncredited)
Exclusive Story
Movie • 1936
Bartender (uncredited)
The Phantom
Movie • 1943
Rusty Fenton (uncredited)
I Love a Mystery
Movie • 1945
Gimpy (Uncredited)
Nevada
Movie • 1927
Cash Burridge
The Sea Wolf
Movie • 1941
The Tip-Off
Movie • 1931
Slug
The Galloping Ghost
Movie • 1931
Brady
The Last Round-up
Movie • 1947
Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
The Black Widow
Movie • 1947
Blinky
Isle of Missing Men
Movie • 1942
Captain of the S. S. Mariposa
Cactus Makes Perfect
Movie • 1942
Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
Phony Express
Movie • 1943
The Banker (uncredited)
The Miracle Rider
Movie • 1935
John Stelter
The Pride of the Legion
Movie • 1932
Shorty
Found Alive
Movie • 1933
C.S. King
The Red Shadow
Movie • 1932
The Gun Ranger
Movie • 1936
Wally Smeed
Desperate
Movie • 1947
Villager (uncredited)
The Man in the Barn
Movie • 1937
Rowdy Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
For the Defense
Movie • 1930
Eddie Withers
The Devil Commands
Movie • 1941
Elam
Jungle Raiders
Movie • 1945
Charley
The Purple Vigilantes
Movie • 1938
Blake
Bar-Z Bad Men
Movie • 1937
Henchman Pete
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Movie • 1937
Red
Law of the Ranger
Movie • 1937
Zeke
Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie • 1938
Henchman Bert / Stage Passenger
Thunder in the Desert
Movie • 1938
Tramp
Arizona Gunfighter
Movie • 1937
Grizzly Barr
Danger Valley
Movie • 1937
Soapy
Exposed
Movie • 1938
Bum
Mandrake the Magician
Movie • 1939
Brown
Sea Raiders
Movie • 1941
Zeke
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Movie • 1940
Shifty Sheldon
King of the Forest Rangers
Movie • 1946
Hiram Bailey
West of Singapore
Movie • 1933
Watson
Here Comes the Groom
Movie • 1934
1st Gunman
Gun Packer
Movie • 1938
Jim Lee - Stage Driver
Numbered Men
Movie • 1930
Trustee with List (bit)
Arizona Whirlwind
Movie • 1944
Warren, the Jewel Cutter
The Fighting Legion
Movie • 1930
Jack Bowie
Weary River
Movie • 1929
Ex-Con in Alley (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie • 1942
Miller Huggins
Invisible Ghost
Movie • 1941
Jules Mason, caretaker
Woman Unafraid
Movie • 1934
Henchman
The Main Event
Movie • 1927
Slug-nutty fighter
Beyond the Rockies
Movie • 1932
Blinky
The Man with Nine Lives
Movie • 1940
Pete Daggett
Murder, My Sweet
Movie • 1944
Bartender at "Florian's" (uncredited)
Girls of the Road
Movie • 1940
Roadhouse Proprietor (Uncredited)
The Mexicali Kid
Movie • 1938
Carl--Gorson's Bookkeeper
Three Chumps Ahead
Movie • 1934
Pool Hall Attendant (uncredited)
Radio Patrol
Movie • 1937
Hobo
In Old Cheyenne
Movie • 1931
Henchman
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Miner
Men Of America
Movie • 1932
Wheels - Smokey's Gas Pumper
A Very Honorable Guy
Movie • 1934
Gambler
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Movie • 1939
Doc Grover
Mystery Broadcast
Movie • 1943
Radio Writer in Cafe (uncredited)
Hopalong Rides Again
Movie • 1937
Keno
Dangerous Business
Movie • 1946
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
King for a Night
Movie • 1933
Pool Hall Crony
Trigger Pals
Movie • 1939
Henchman Pete
Curlytop
Movie • 1924
Sproggs
The Man Who Returned to Life
Movie • 1942
Ezra Smith
Doomed at Sundown
Movie • 1937
Deputy
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Movie • 1937
Sheriff Rankin
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Movie • 1939
Eddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)
Frontier Pony Express
Movie • 1939
Man at Deer Lodge Station
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Gen. Philip Sheridan (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln
Movie • 1939
Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
Tower of London
Movie • 1939
Thirsty Prisoner (uncredited)
Down the Wyoming Trail
Movie • 1939
Ernie Adams
The Invisible Killer
Movie • 1939
Squint, the Croupier
Ranger's Code
Movie • 1933
Nat the Bat
There Goes My Heart
Movie • 1938
Cafe Counterman (uncredited)
Shadow Ranch
Movie • 1930
Henchman Joe
The Ghost Rider
Movie • 1935
Practical Joker
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Movie • 1933
Man Thrown out of Apartment Building
Riders from Nowhere
Movie • 1940
Manny
It Happened One Night
Movie • 1934
Bag Thief (uncredited)
Night Beat
Movie • 1931
Hymie Weissenkorn
One Thrilling Night
Movie • 1942
Pete Mooney
Riding the Wind
Movie • 1942
Jones
The Phantom Stage
Movie • 1939
Henchman Runt (Stage Guard in Credits)
Colorado Kid
Movie • 1937
Bibben Tucker
Yukon Flight
Movie • 1940
Henry
Night Waitress
Movie • 1936
Diner Who Gets Indigestion
Robbers of the Range
Movie • 1941
Greeley
It's a Wonderful Life
Movie • 1946
Ed (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn
Movie • 1946
Waiter (uncredited)
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Movie • 1942
Paki
The Pony Express
Movie • 1925
Henchman
Man With Two Lives
Movie • 1942
Gimpy
Headin' for God's Country
Movie • 1943
Chuck
Killer Dill
Movie • 1947
Little Joe's Driver (uncredited)
Young Tom Edison
Movie • 1940
Passenger Buying Maple Sugar
Out West with the Peppers
Movie • 1940
Oscar - Telegraph Operator
Speedy
Movie • 1928
Baseball Concessionaire (uncredited)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Movie • 1936
Assayer Benson
The Invisible Man Returns
Movie • 1940
Minor Role (uncredited)
Three on the Trail
Movie • 1936
Idaho
Riders of Death Valley
Movie • 1941
Cactus Pete, Prospector [Ch.14]
The Killers
Movie • 1946
Hood with Cane (uncredited)
Ridin' the Lone Trail
Movie • 1937
Peters
Sagebrush Law
Movie • 1943
Landers
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Movie • 1941
Mustang
The Blackbird
Movie • 1926
Bertie's No. 2 Man
Dark Command
Movie • 1940
Townsman
Code of the Streets
Movie • 1939
Henchman
A Lady's Profession
Movie • 1933
One of the Colonel's Henchmen (uncredited)
San Quentin
Movie • 1937
Fink
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1940
Informer
Before I Hang
Movie • 1940
Sam - Hospital Prison Orderly
It's in the Air
Movie • 1935
Counterman (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Kelner - the Fink (uncredited)
Primrose Path
Movie • 1940
Man in Bluebell (uncredited)
He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Workman
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Movie • 1940
(uncredited)
The Storm
Movie • 1930
Johnny Behind the 8-Ball
The Mighty
Movie • 1929
Hood
Panama Flo
Movie • 1932
Jake - Speakeasy Doorman
Road Gang
Movie • 1936
Jeff - Convict with Bad Leg (uncredited)
Anything for a Thrill
Movie • 1937
The Runt - Henchman
A Guy Could Change
Movie • 1946
Newsboy
Traffic in Crime
Movie • 1946
Counter Man
Tim Tyler's Luck
Movie • 1937
Henchman Becker
Alias Boston Blackie
Movie • 1942
Pop - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Honolulu Lu
Movie • 1941
Pierre
The Shadow of the Eagle
Movie • 1932
Pat Kelly
One Splendid Hour
Movie • 1929
Solly
Son of Zorro
Movie • 1947
Judge Hyde
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Movie • 1941
Newsstand Clerk
The Pinto Kid
Movie • 1941
Ed Slade
Mug Town
Movie • 1942
Thief
Keep 'Em Slugging
Movie • 1943
Dugan
Beyond the Last Frontier
Movie • 1943
'Sarge' Kincaid
Westward Ho-Hum
Movie • 1941
Hail to the Rangers
Movie • 1943
Latham
The Lone Prairie
Movie • 1942
Judge Barstow
Raiders of Ghost City
Movie • 1944
Hans Plattner, alias Bill Jasper
Ghost Guns
Movie • 1944
Doc Edwards
Raiders of the Border
Movie • 1944
Whiskey Wiley
Robin Hood of Monterey
Movie • 1947
Pablo
Trailing Danger
Movie • 1947
Pennypacker
Carnival
Movie • 1935
Barker (uncredited)
The Law Comes to Gunsight
Movie • 1947
Bert Simpson
Breed of the Border
Movie • 1933
Joe
Bandit Ranger
Movie • 1942
Kenyon's Clerk (uncredited)
Sundown on the Prairie
Movie • 1939
Henchman Blackie
Up Goes Maisie
Movie • 1946
Fireman (Uncredited)
Sabotage Squad
Movie • 1942
Smoke Shop Customer
The Good Bad Girl
Movie • 1931
One of Tyler's Thugs
Lightnin' Crandall
Movie • 1937
Texas May
I Stole a Million
Movie • 1939
Mooch (uncredited)
Men of the Night
Movie • 1934
Sandy (uncredited)
The Undie-World
Movie • 1934
T.N.T. Room Checkroom Attendant
Life Begins with Love
Movie • 1937
Radical (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
Movie • 1932
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
The Amateur Gentleman
Movie • 1926
Dandy (uncredited)
Pals in Paradise
Movie • 1926
Butterfly Kid
What a Night!
Movie • 1928
Snarky
Dodge City Trail
Movie • 1936
Dillon
Fair Warning
Movie • 1931
Jordan
Down on the Farm
Movie • 1938
Pony Concessioner
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Heckler (uncredited)
A Man About Town
Movie • 1927
Cohort
The Jury's Secret
Movie • 1938
Sidewalk Heckler
Outlaw Express
Movie • 1938
Express Rider
Ex-Champ
Movie • 1939
Street Cleaner
Crash Donovan
Movie • 1936
Mechanic (uncredited)
The Glass Key
Movie • 1935
Bettor (uncredited)
So This Is Love
Movie • 1928
Flash Tracy
The Chaser
Movie • 1938
Injured Man
Badge of Honor
Movie • 1934
'Tip' Crane
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie • 1930
2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
Goin' to Town
Movie • 1944
Zeke
Little Caesar
Movie • 1931
Cashier (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home
Movie • 1947
Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
Murder in Times Square
Movie • 1943
Horsetooth
Frisco Sal
Movie • 1945
McKinney
The Man in Half Moon Street
Movie • 1945
Porter
The Jungle Captive
Movie • 1945
Jim
Freaks
Movie • 1932
Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie • 1941
Michaelson (uncredited)
Marshal of Gunsmoke
Movie • 1944
Nuggett Newcomb
My Man Godfrey
Movie • 1936
Forgotten Man (uncredited)
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Movie • 1924
The Cashier's Father (uncredited)
The Climax
Movie • 1944
Man in Audience Next to Franz (Uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
Movie • 1932
Reporter (uncredited)
The Show
Movie • 1922
Magician / Audience Member (uncredited)
California Frontier
Movie • 1938
Barclay
One Man Law
Movie • 1931
Stubb
The Lost Jungle
Movie • 1934
Pete
Where the Worst Begins
Movie • 1925
Galloping Romeo
Movie • 1933
Andy Kent
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Movie • 1933
Man Seeking a Light (uncredited)
Road Agent
Movie • 1941
Jake
Stool Pigeon
Movie • 1928
Dropper
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Movie • 1947
Waiter at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
Stagecoach Buckaroo
Movie • 1942
The Secret of the Whistler
Movie • 1946
On Ze Boulevard
Movie • 1927
Valet
She Married Her Boss
Movie • 1935
Passerby
Made on Broadway
Movie • 1933
Elmer - Jeff's Chauffeur
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Nick (uncredited)
The Frame-Up
Movie • 1937
Horse Player (uncredited)
Dance, Fools, Dance
Movie • 1931
Luva’s Henchman (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir
Movie • 1947
Charlie
The Face Behind the Mask
Movie • 1941
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Gallant Journey
Movie • 1946
Husband (uncredited)
Johnny Angel
Movie • 1945
Leslie, the Steward (uncredited)
The Delicious Little Devil
Movie • 1919
Agency Employee (uncredited)
The Lady Is Willing
Movie • 1942
Doorman (uncredited)
The Great John L.
Movie • 1945
Waiter (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Movie • 1934
Ben (uncredited)
Forgotten Faces
Movie • 1928
Trail Street
Movie • 1947
Eben Bowen (uncredited)
We're Not Dressing
Movie • 1934
Sailor Tossing Cards (uncredited)
Melting Millions
Movie • 1927
The Casino Murder Case
Movie • 1935
Husband of Fat Lady at Auction (uncredited)
The People's Choice
Movie • 1946
Men of the Hour
Movie • 1935
Steve
West of Cheyenne
Movie • 1938
Henchman Shorty
A Regular Girl
Movie • 1919
Shorty
Hair-Trigger Baxter
Movie • 1926
Shorty Hillis
Is There Justice?
Movie • 1931
Shorty Gray