Actor
Ernie Adams
June 17, 1885 · 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.
Notable work
8.3It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
as Ed (uncredited)
7.8It Happened One Night (1934)
as Bag Thief (uncredited)
7.8Freaks (1932)
as Sideshow Patron (uncredited)
7.8All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
7.4The Killers (1946)
as Hood with Cane (uncredited)
7.6My Man Godfrey (1936)
as Forgotten Man (uncredited)
6.9Little Caesar (1931)
as Cashier (uncredited)
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