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Ernie Adams

Acting
1885-06-17
San Francisco, California, USA
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.

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Known For 263 titles
Swamp Woman (1941) subtitle poster
Swamp Woman
1941 Movie
as Spratt
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Man With Two Lives (1942) subtitle poster
Man With Two Lives
1942 Movie
as Gimpy
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Three on the Trail (1936) subtitle poster
Three on the Trail
1936 Movie
as Idaho
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Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937) subtitle poster
Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
1937 Movie
as Red
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The Prescott Kid (1934) subtitle poster
The Prescott Kid
1934 Movie
as Red Larsen
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Honolulu Lu (1941) subtitle poster
Honolulu Lu
1941 Movie
as Pierre
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The Fargo Kid (1940) subtitle poster
The Fargo Kid
1940 Movie
as Bush Cleveland
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The Gun Ranger (1936) subtitle poster
The Gun Ranger
1936 Movie
as Wally Smeed
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Gun Packer (1938) subtitle poster
Gun Packer
1938 Movie
as Jim Lee - Stage Driver
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) subtitle poster
Cactus Makes Perfect
1942 Movie
as Stumpy - Smaller Prospector (uncredited)
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Doomed at Sundown (1937) subtitle poster
Doomed at Sundown
1937 Movie
as Deputy
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Leaping Love (1929) subtitle poster
Leaping Love
1929 Movie
as George - The Drunk (uncredited)
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The Undie-World (1934) subtitle poster
The Undie-World
1934 Movie
as T.N.T. Room Checkroom Attendant
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Riding the Wind (1942) subtitle poster
Riding the Wind
1942 Movie
as Jones
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Bar-Z Bad Men (1937) subtitle poster
Bar-Z Bad Men
1937 Movie
as Henchman Pete
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Calling All Cars (1935) subtitle poster
Calling All Cars
1935 Movie
as Reporter (uncredited)
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941) subtitle poster
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941 Movie
as Mustang
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Anything for a Thrill (1937) subtitle poster
Anything for a Thrill
1937 Movie
as The Runt - Henchman
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The Law of the Wild (1934) subtitle poster
The Law of the Wild
1934 Movie
as Henchman Raymond
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Galloping Romeo (1933) subtitle poster
Galloping Romeo
1933 Movie
as Andy Kent
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Frisco Sal (1945) subtitle poster
Frisco Sal
1945 Movie
as McKinney
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The Man in the Barn (1937) subtitle poster
The Man in the Barn
1937 Movie
as Rowdy Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
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West of Singapore (1933) subtitle poster
West of Singapore
1933 Movie
as Watson
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Rollin' Plains (1938) subtitle poster
Rollin' Plains
1938 Movie
as Cain Moody
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