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.
Movies7.497 1934 HD
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: William Powell
Movies5.5 1941 HD
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Wayne
Movies7.818 1932 HD
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Paul Muni
Movies7.477 1936 HD
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.3 1936 HD
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5 1935 HD
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies4.5 1935 HD
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.2 1935 HD
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies3.2 1939 HD
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies3 1934 HD
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.2 1939 HD
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5 1933 HD
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.8 1933 HD
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.5 1938 HD
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.676 1934 HD
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6 1936 HD
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.3 1933 HD
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.6 1938 HD
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.8 1936 HD
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies1 1939 HD
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies7 1934 HD
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.5 1934 HD
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5 1933 HD
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.5 1935 HD
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5 1941 HD
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies6.3 1919 HD
Flotsam (Thomas) is the daughter and helper of crusty old lighthouse keeper Joe Clark (Edward Ellis, in fine form). The reason why Clark lives 'out...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies1 1921 HD
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.4 1936 HD
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies5.9 1937 HD
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies2 1939 HD
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies7 1942 HD
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies1 1937 HD
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies1 1937 HD
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
Movies1 1934 HD
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sylvia Sidney
