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Cause of death
  
Prostate Cancer

Name
  
Edward Ellis


Role
  
Film actor

Children
  
Ruth Ellis

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Full Name
  
Edward Mayne Ellis

Born
  
November 12, 1870 (
1870-11-12
)
Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.

Occupation
  
Actor, producer, screenwriter

Years active
  
1879–1934 (stage) 1917–1942 (film)

Died
  
July 26, 1952, Beverly Hills, California, United States

Spouse
  
Josephine Stevens (m. 1917–1952)

Parents
  
Ruth McCarty Ellis, Edward C. Ellis

Movies
  
The Thin Man, Fury, I Am a Fugitive from a Ch, Little Miss Broadway, A Man to Remember

Similar People
  
Harold Huber, Edward Brophy, W S Van Dyke, Irving Cummings, Mervyn LeRoy

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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Early life

Ellis was born in Coldwater, Michigan, the second child of Edward C. Ellis, a playwright and actor and Ruth McCarthy Ellis, an actress. He was the older brother of stage actress and writer Edith Ellis.

Career

He made his first stage appearance in 1879 in Chicago. He was an actor, playwright and producer on Broadway before going into films. His first adult performance was in Mary and John in 1905. He toured all over America and also played in England. Edward Ellis was a dramatic author and also wrote the playscript for the 1934 play Affair of a Gentleman.

In films, he played mostly supporting roles, his only leading roles being in Main Street Lawyer (1939) and in A Man to Remember (1938) and Three Sons (1939), a remake of Lionel Barrymore's Sweepings (1933). He starred in 37 films, but is probably best remembered for his roles as the resolute sheriff in Fury, as Shirley Temple's uncle in Little Miss Broadway and the leading role in A Man to Remember.

He is also well known as Clyde Wynant, the wealthy industrialist, whose disappearance private eye Nick Charles (played by William Powell) had been hired to investigate in the 1934 hit MGM film The Thin Man. The title does not refer to Powell's character, as is so widely assumed, but to Ellis' character in the film.

In 1939, Frank Capra offered Ellis the role of the President of the Senate in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, however he refused the part which went to Harry Carey.

His last appearance was as Mr. Vane in The Omaha Trail (1942).

Personal life

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.

Filmography

Actor
1942
The Omaha Trail as
Mr. Vane
1941
Steel Against the Sky as
Pop Aloysius Evans
1941
A Man Betrayed as
Tom Cameron aka Boss Cameron
1939
Main Street Lawyer as
Abraham Lincoln 'Link' Boggs
1939
Three Sons as
Daniel Pardway
1939
Career as
Stephen Cruthers
1939
Man of Conquest as
Andrew Jackson
1938
A Man to Remember as
Dr. John Abbott
1938
Little Miss Broadway as
Pop Shea
1937
Midnight Madonna as
Judge Clark
1937
The Man in Blue as
Martin Dunne
1937
Let Them Live as
Pete Lindsey
1937
Maid of Salem as
Elder Goode
1936
Winterset as
Judge Gaunt
1936
The Texas Rangers as
Major Bailey
1936
Fury as
Sheriff
1936
The Lady Consents as
Jim Talbot
1936
Chatterbox as
Uriah Lowell
1935
The Return of Peter Grimm as
Dr. Andrew Macpherson
1935
Wanderer of the Wasteland as
Dismukes
1935
Village Tale as
Old Ike
1935
Transient Lady as
Nick Kiley
1934
The President Vanishes as
Lincoln Lee
1934
The Thin Man as
Clyde Wynant
1934
The Last Gentleman as
Claude
1934
The Trumpet Blows as
Chato
1934
The 9th Guest as
Tim Cronin
1934
Hi, Nellie as
O'Connell
1933
From Headquarters as
Dr. Van de Water
1933
After Tonight as
Maj. Lieber
1933
Strictly Personal as
Soapy Gibson
1933
Girl Missing as
Inspector McDonald
1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as
Bomber Wells
1921
Frontier of the Stars as
Gregory
1919
Out Yonder as
Joey Clark
1917
The Great Bradley Mystery as
Bradley
1917
The Law That Failed as
Luke Rodin
Writer
1934
Affairs of a Gentleman (play)
1917
The Great Bradley Mystery (scenario)

References

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