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Edward Ellis is a Actor American born on 11 november 1870 at Coldwater (USA)
Edward Mayne Ellis (November 12, 1870 – July 26, 1952) was an American film actor. He is best known for playing the title role in The Thin Man, as well as in A Man to Remember.
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Birth name Edward Mayne Ellis
Nationality USA
Birth 11 november 1870 at Coldwater (USA)
Death 26 july 1952 (at 81 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 11 november 1870 at Coldwater (USA)
Death 26 july 1952 (at 81 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Biography
He was briefly married to silent film actress Josephine Stevens from 1917 to the mid 1920s. Their union produced one daughter, Roberta (Bobbie) Ellis born in 1918. Ellis died on July 26, 1952 at the age of 81 from heart failure due to prostate cancer.Usually with
Filmography of Edward Ellis (30 films)
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The Omaha Trail (1942)
, 1h2Directed by Edward Buzzell, Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Craig, Pamela Blake, Dean Jagger, Donald Meek, Edward Ellis, Chill Wills
Roles Mr. Vane
Rating54%
A Man Betrayed (1941)
, 1h22Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors John Wayne, Frances Dee, Wallace Ford, Edward Ellis, Kay Hughes, Ward Bond
Roles Boss Thomas 'Tom' Cameron
Rating59%
Johnny Smith, un joueur de basket, fête la victoire de son équipe dans le Club Inferno de Temple City. Il se rend compte que les dés avec lesquels il joue sont pipés. Lorsqu'il s'en prend au propriétaire du club, T. Amato, il est abattu par le frère de celui-ci. À cause de ses connexions avec Amato, Tom Cameron, un homme politique qui craint pour sa réélection, fait en sorte que la mort de Johnny soit enregistrée comme un suicide. Lynn Hollister, un avocat ami de Johnny, a des doutes sur ce verdict et se rend à Temple City pour enquêter.
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
, 1h7Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens, Gene Lockhart, Edward Ellis, Walter Catlett
Roles Pop Aloysisus Evans
Rating58%
Man of Conquest (1939)
, 1h45Directed by George Nichols Jr., George Nicholls, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine, Edward Ellis, Victor Jory, George "Gabby" Hayes
Roles Andrew Jackson
Rating60%
Sam Houston fights beside his friend Andrew Jackson and is wounded. Not long thereafter, Jackson is elected President of the United States and appoints Houston as governor of Tennessee.
Career (1939)
Directed by Leigh Jason
Genres Drama
Actors Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Charles Drake, Samuel S. Hinds, Janet Beecher, Leon Errol
Roles Stephen Cruthers
Rating64%
Three Sons (1939)
, 1h12Directed by James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward Ellis, William Gargan, J. Edward Bromberg, Kirby Grant, Kent Taylor, Katharine Alexander
Roles Daniel Pardway
Rating59%
Daniel Pardway (Edward Ellis)a department store owner is deeply saddened to learn that none of his grown sons are interested in taking over the business he has worked so hard to build. To coerce them, he even tries giving them shares of company stock. In the end, only the youngest son shows any interest at all.
Main Street Lawyer (1939)
, 1h12Directed by Dudley Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Edward Ellis, Anita Louise, Harold Huber, Clem Bevans, Margaret Hamilton, Beverly Roberts
Roles Abraham Lincoln 'Link' Boggs
A Man to Remember (1938)
, 1h20Directed by Garson Kanin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman, William Henry, Granville Bates, Frank M. Thomas
Roles Dr. John Abbott
Rating69%
Under the grieving eyes of most of a town, the funeral procession of Doctor John Abbott (Edward Ellis) passes a lawyer's office. The lawyer opens Abbott's strongbox for the deceased man's impatient creditors, local banker George Sykes (Granville Bates), newspaper editor Jode Harkness (Frank M. Thomas) and store owner Homer Ramsey (Harlan Briggs). Flashbacks begin as they peruse Dr. Abbott's papers.
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
, 1h12Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Edna May Oliver, George Murphy, Edward Ellis, Phyllis Brooks, Jimmy Durante
Roles Pop Shea
Rating64%
Betsy Brown is released from an orphanage into the care of Pop Shea, her parents' friend who runs a boarding house for theatrical performers. Sarah Wendling, the curmudgeon owner and next-door neighbor of the building, detests "show people" and their noise, and demands Pop pay the $2,500 back rent he owes or move out immediately. Her nephew Roger is in love with Pop's daughter Barbara and files suit against Sarah in order to gain control of the building and his inheritance, with which he plans to stage a show starring the hotel residents. Sarah questions the soundness of Roger's investment in the show, and Betsy convinces the judge to see the production before he decides the case. With the assistance of her friends, the little girl presents a lavish musical revue in the courtroom that so impresses one of the observers he offers the troupe $2,500 a week to star in his International Follies. Having had a change of heart, Sarah insists the show is worth $5,000 and convinces the impresario to double his offer. Roger and Barbara then announce their intent to wed and adopt Betsy.
Maid of Salem (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett
Roles Elder Goode
Rating64%
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
Midnight Madonna (1937)
, 56minutesOrigin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Warren William, Edward Ellis, Jonathan Hale, Joe Sawyer, Joseph Crehan, Frank Reicher
Roles Judge Clark
Fury (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang, Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Bruce Cabot, Walter Abel, Walter Brennan, Edward Ellis
Roles Sheriff
Rating77%
En route to meet his fiancée, Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney), Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing more distorted through each retelling, until a mob gathers at the jail. When the resolute sheriff (Edward Ellis) refuses to give up his prisoner, the enraged townspeople burn down the building, two of them also throwing dynamite into the flames as they flee the scene. Unknown to anyone else there, the blast frees Wilson, but kills his little dog Rainbow, who had run in to comfort him in the cell.
The Texas Rangers (1936)
, 1h33Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan, Frank Shannon, Edward Ellis
Roles Major Bailey
Rating65%
Trois bandits, longtemps amis, Jim Hawkins, Henry B. Wahoo Jones et Sam McGee en viennent à se séparer. Les deux premiers, après quelque temps d'incarcération, décident de rejoindre les rangs des Texas Rangers. Le troisième continue sa vie de rapine. Hawkins tombe sous le charme d'Amanda Bailey. Lorsque Wahoo Jones se promet d'arrêter son ancien complice McGee, il ne se doute pas qu'il va trouver la mort. Dès lors, entre les deux survivants, la haine devient farouche…
Winterset (1936)
, 1h17Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch, John Carradine, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961)
Roles Judge Gaunt
Rating60%
Chatterbox (1936)
, 1h8Directed by George Nichols Jr., George Nicholls, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Anne Shirley, Phillips Holmes, Edward Ellis, Erik Rhodes, Margaret Hamilton, Lucille Ball
Roles Uriah Lowell
Rating60%
Jenny Yates (Anne Shirley) dreams of following in the profession of her deceased actor parents, but her grandfather, Uriah Lowell, with whom she lives, strongly disapproves. One day, the chatty young woman strikes up a conversation with struggling painter/actor Phil Greene, Jr. He is associated with a summer stock company trying out a revival of an old melodrama, Virtue's Reward, in Jenny's rural community before opening in New York City. Jenny is thrilled when he offers to give her a free ticket to that night's show, as her mother had acted in that very play.