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Edward J. Ratcliffe is a Actor born on 10 march 1863

Edward J. Ratcliffe

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Birth name Edward J. Ratcliffe
Birth 10 march 1863
Death 28 september 1948 (at 85 years)

Edward J. Ratcliffe (10 March 1863 – 28 September 1948) was an English actor of stage and screen. He had an established stage career behind him when he came to films in 1915. He then spent nearly twenty years before the cameras before making his last film in 1933. He can be seen in many surviving silent and sound films. In the early Warner Brothers sound extravaganza The Show of Shows he plays Henry VI in the excerpted vignette from that play opposite John Barrymore's Richard III.

Ratcliffe played Theodore Roosevelt on at least three occasions in films.

He was born in and died in the same years as fellow Englishman character actor C. Aubrey Smith.

New York barman Patrick Duffy claimed Ratcliffe brought the highball from England to the U.S. in 1894.

Usually with

Reginald Denny
Reginald Denny
(4 films)
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack
(1 films)
Lloyd Whitlock
Lloyd Whitlock
(3 films)
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
(3 films)
William James Craft
William James Craft
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edward J. Ratcliffe (24 films)

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I Loved a Woman
I Loved a Woman (1933)
, 1h30
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin, Robert Barrat, Murray Kinnell, Robert McWade
Roles Theodore Roosevelt
Rating59% 2.9953152.9953152.9953152.9953152.995315
John Hayden (Robinson), owner of a Chicago meat-packing company, falls in love with a beautiful opera singer (Francis).
Sally
Sally (1930)
, 1h43
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, Ford Sterling, Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes
Roles John Farell
Rating61% 3.0513753.0513753.0513753.0513753.051375
Sally (Marilyn Miller) plays the part of an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While growing up in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. In an attempt to save money enough to become a dancer, Sally began working at odd jobs. While working as a waitress, a man named Blair (Alexander Gray) begins coming to her work regularly to see her. They both soon fall for each other.
Wide Open
Wide Open (1930)
, 1h9
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Edward Everett Horton, Louise Fazenda, Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Lewis, Louise Beavers, Edna Murphy
Roles Trundle
Rating59% 2.954032.954032.954032.954032.95403
Unassertive bookkeeper Simon Haldane (Horton) is the butt of everyone's jokes at work. Co-worker Agatha (Louise Fazenda) is desperately in love with him. One rainy night, Agatha's mother, with Agatha in tow, visits him at home to insist that he marry her. Outside, two detectives chase a mysterious young woman (Miller), who eludes them by slipping unnoticed into Simon's house and hiding in a closet. When the detectives enter the premises, Simon manages to get rid of them and Agatha and her mother.
The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers (1929)
, 1h20
Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore von Eltz, Noah Beery Sr.
Roles Col. Eustace
Rating69% 3.47223.47223.47223.47223.4722
Le jeune lieutenant Harry Feversham, descendant d'une famille de militaires au service de l'Angleterre, vit dans la crainte de déshonorer le nom de ses ancêtres à cause de sa lâcheté. Lorsqu'il apprend que son régiment est envoyé en mission en Afrique pour maîtriser une révolte de derviches fanatiques, Feversham résilie son contrat. Ses trois compagnons, le capitaine Trench et les lieutenants Castleton et Durrance lui remettent alors chacun une plume blanche, symbole de lâcheté, la quatrième lui est donnée par sa fiancée. Mais lorsqu'en Afrique, ses trois camarades tombent aux mains de l'ennemi, Un Feversham métamorphosé réussit, par une série d'actes audacieux, à les sauver. Il peut alors leur rendre les plumes.
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age (1929)
, 1h4
Origin USA
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Joel McCrea, Myrtle Stedman, Gertrude Dolores Messinger
Rating76% 3.8214953.8214953.8214953.8214953.821495
Steve Maxwell (Fairbanks) and Sue Randall (Day), during an escapade, wreck one of her father's streetcars. Randall uses this incident to stop the elder Maxwell (Walthall) from opposing his illegal contract with the city. When Steve tells all to the city council, Mr. Randall (Ratcliffe) threatens Steve with arrest, Sue admits her culpability, and announces her intentions of marrying Steve.
One Hysterical Night
One Hysterical Night (1929)

Directed by William James Craft
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, Edward J. Ratcliffe, Fritz Feld, Slim Summerville, Walter Brennan
Roles Wellington
Rating54% 2.7220152.7220152.7220152.7220152.722015
A wealthy man dresses up as Napoleon for a fancy dress ball, but is instead detained in a lunatic asylum where they suspect him of having delusions of grandeur.
The Prince of Headwaiters
The Prince of Headwaiters (1927)
, 1h10
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lewis Stone, Priscilla Bonner, Edward J. Ratcliffe, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Agnew, Lincoln Stedman
Roles John Cable

A maitre d' at the Hôtel Ritz Paris finds out his son, wealthy thanks to his mother, might be blackmailed by Mae Morin (played by Lilyan Tashman).
The Black Pirate
The Black Pirate (1926)
, 1h34
Directed by Albert Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Anders Randolf, Sam De Grasse
Roles The Governor
Rating69% 3.495253.495253.495253.495253.49525
The film begins with the looting of a ship already captured and badly mauled, by the pirates. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates fire the ship, blowing up the gunpowder on board, sinking her. While the pirates celebrate, two survivors wash up on an island, an old man and his son. Before dying, the older man (Douglas Fairbanks' real-life father) gives his signet ring to his son (Douglas Fairbanks). His son buries him, vowing vengeance.
The Winning of Barbara Worth
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)

Directed by Henry King, Samuel Goldwyn, Frances Marion
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane, Charles Lane, Clyde Wilfred Cook
Roles James Greenfield
Rating68% 3.4409053.4409053.4409053.4409053.440905
Jefferson Worth trouve une orpheline dans le désert et l'élève comme sa propre fille. Devenue jeune femme, Barbara est aimée de Abe Lee, le contremaître de son père adoptif. Lorsque Greenfield, un riche entrepreneur, arrive avec des plans pour irriguer le désert, Worth se joint à lui dans cette opération. Le fils adoptif de Greenfield, Willard Holmes, un ingénieur, arrive de la côte Est et tombe lui aussi amoureux de Barbara et une rivalité se développe entre Abe et lui.