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Ernie Adams
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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As actor
The Pretender
The Thirteenth Hour
The Last Round-up
The Black Widow
Desperate
Killer Dill
Son of Zorro
Robin Hood of Monterey
Trailing Danger
The Law Comes to Gunsight
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Yankee Fakir
Trail Street
The Millerson Case
Fear
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
King of the Forest Rangers
Dangerous Business
It's a Wonderful Life
Deadline at Dawn
The Killers
Traffic in Crime
A Guy Could Change
Up Goes Maisie
The Secret of the Whistler
Gallant Journey
The People's Choice
Girl on the Spot
Escape in the Fog