Acting credits
36
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Edward Ellis
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 36Series: 0Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 77115
IMDb ID: nm0254818
Known for: Acting
Born: November 11, 1870
Died: July 26, 1952
Age: 81
Place of birth: Coldwater, Michigan, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1917 - 1942
Years active: 26
Average TMDB rating: 7.16
Wikidata: Q3048506
Also known as
Edward Mayne Ellis
Other jobs
Scenario Writer (1)
Biography
Character actor in films, often portraying strident types, he is best remembered cast as "The Thin Man" (actually, "Wynant") of the hit 1934 MGM film. He Ellis was active on Broadway as an actor, producer and playwright from 1905-32 (see "Other Works"). He died in Beverly Hills, CA at age 81 in 1952.
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Movie credits linked with Edward Ellis.
7.0
The Omaha Trail
as Mr. Vane
1942 Movie
5.0
Steel Against the Sky
as Pop Aloysisus Evans
1941 Movie
5.4
A Man Betrayed
as Boss Thomas 'Tom' Cameron
1941 Movie
2.0
Main Street Lawyer
as Abraham Lincoln 'Link' Boggs
1939 Movie
2.5
Three Sons
as Daniel Pardway
1939 Movie
Career
as Stephen Cruthers
1939 Movie
5.0
Man of Conquest
as Andrew Jackson
1939 Movie
6.5
A Man to Remember
as Dr. John Abbott
1938 Movie
6.3
Little Miss Broadway
as Pop Shea
1938 Movie
Midnight Madonna
as Judge Clark
1937 Movie
Let Them Live
as Pete Lindsey
1937 Movie
5.9
Maid of Salem
as Elder Goode
1937 Movie
5.7
Winterset
as Judge Gaunt
1936 Movie
6.3
The Texas Rangers
as Major Bailey
1936 Movie
7.4
Fury
as Sheriff
1936 Movie
5.8
The Lady Consents
as Jim Talbot
1936 Movie
6.0
Chatterbox
as Uriah Lowell
1936 Movie
5.2
The Return Of Peter Grimm
as Dr. Andrew Macpherson
1935 Movie
5.0
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Dismukes
1935 Movie
4.5
Village Tale
as Old Ike
1935 Movie
5.5
Transient Lady
as Nick Kiley
1935 Movie
5.8
The President Vanishes
as Lincoln Lee
1934 Movie
7.5
The Thin Man
as Clyde Wynant
1934 Movie
3.0
The Last Gentleman
as Claude, Cabot's butler
1934 Movie