Edward Ellis (actor)

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.

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 38 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.

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Edward Ellis (cricketer)

Edward Chauncy Ellis (born 10 January 1810, Leyton, Essex; died 28 March 1887, Langham, Essex) was an English cricketer who was associated with Cambridge University Cricket Club and made his first-class debut in 1829.

He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1828 and won a Blue (university sport) for cricket in 1829; later he was ordained in the Church of England and after curacies in Essex became the rector of Langham, in the diocese of St Albans in 1847 and stayed there until his death in 1887.

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Edward Ellis (bishop)

Edward Ellis was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham from 1944 to 1974.

He was born on 30 June 1899 in Nottingham and ordained priest there on 15 October 1922.

On 18 March 1944, Ellis was appointed the seventh Bishop of Nottingham by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 1 May.

Ellis retired as Bishop of Nottingham on 31 October 1974, aged 75, and died on 6 July 1979, aged 80, as Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham.

He was a priest for 56 years and a bishop for 35 years.

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