E. J. Ratcliffe
British actor

E. J. Ratcliffe

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British actor
Gender:
Male
Places:
United KingdomGreat Britain
Is:
Actor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
10 March 1863(London, Greater London, London, England)
Death:
28 September 1948(Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.)
Star sign:
Pisces
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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.

Selected filmography

  • The Struggle Everlasting (1918)
  • Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
  • The Divorcee (1919)
  • A Daughter of Two Worlds (1920)
  • Even as Eve (1920)
  • The Great Adventure (1921)
  • Disraeli (1921)
  • Miss 139 (1921)
  • Experience (1921)
  • Wine of Youth (1924)
  • Sundown (1924) (as Teddy Roosevelt)
  • The Black Pirate (1926)
  • Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)
  • Rolling Home (1926)
  • The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
  • The Notorious Lady (1927)
  • Cheating Cheaters (1927)
  • The Prince of Headwaiters (1927)
  • The Four Feathers (1929)
  • The Jazz Age (1929)
  • The Show of Shows (1929)
  • Sally (1929)
  • I Loved a Woman (1933)(*as Teddy Roosevelt)