Ernest Torrence
Birthday
1878/06/24
Day of death
1933/05/15 (54 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also know as
Ernest Torrance-Thomson
Biography
He was the man you loved to hiss. This towering (6' 4"), highly imposing character star with cold, hollow, beady eyes and a huge, protruding snout would go on to become one of the silent screen's finest arch villains. Born Ernest Thayson Torrence-Thompson on June 26, 1878, in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was, unlikely enough, an exceptional pianist and operatic baritone. A graduate of the Stuttgart Conservatory, Edinburgh Academy before earning a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music, ...Read more
Acting
(1928) Steamboat Bill, Jr.
as William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield Sr.
(1919) A Dangerous Affair
as Abner (as Ernest Torrance)
(1933) I Cover the Waterfront
as Eli Kirk (Julie's father)
(1926) The Blind Goddess
as Mr. Clayton
(1923) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as 'Devil' Jud Tolliver
(1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Clopin
(1926) Mantrap
as Joe Easter
(1926) The Lady of the Harem
as Hassan
(1931) The Cuban Love Song
as Romance
(1928) Across to Singapore
as Captain Mark Shore
(1931) Fighting Caravans
as Bill Jackson
(1929) Speedway
as Jim MacDonald
(1923) Ruggles of Red Gap
as Cousin Egbert Floud
(1929) Desert Nights
as Steve
(1922) The Prodigal Judge
as Solomon Mahaffy
(1929) The Unholy Night
as Dr. Ballou
(1932) Sherlock Holmes
as Professor James Moriarty
(1931) The Great Lover
as Potter
(1929) Untamed
as Uncle Ben Murchison
(1931) Shipmates
as Chief Bosuns Mate Scotty McTavish
(1929) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Uncle Pio
(1928) The Cossacks
as Ivan
(1999) Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
(1930) Call of the Flesh
as Esteban
(1931) Sporting Blood
as Mr. Jim Rellence
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1927) Captain Salvation
as Captain of the 'Panther'
(1931) New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
as Blackie Daw
(1930) Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Sir Jasper Standish
(1923) The Covered Wagon
as Jackson
(1930) Officer O'Brien
as John Patrick O'Brien
(1930) Strictly Unconventional
as Lord Porteous
(1932) Hypnotized
as Prof. Horace S. Limberly - Hypnotist
(1926) North of 36
as Jim Nabours
(1927) The King of Kings
as Peter
(1924) Peter Pan
as Captain James Hook
(1925) Night Life of New York
as John Bentley
(1922) Broken Chains
as Boyan Boone
(1927) Twelve Miles Out
as Red McCue
(1925) The Pony Express
as 'Ascension' Jones
(1921) Tol'able David
as Luke Hatburn
(1922) The Kingdom Within
as Kreig
(1959) The Tingler
as Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1926) The American Venus
as King Neptune
(1923) The Brass Bottle
as Fakresh-el-Aamash
(1925) The Wanderer
as Tola
(1922) Singed Wings
as Emilio
(1924) The Fighting Coward
as Gen. Orlando Jackson
(1924) The Heritage of the Desert
as August Naab
(1925) The Dressmaker from Paris
as Angus McGregor
(1924) The Side Show of Life
as Andrew Lackady
(1926) The Rainmaker
as Mike
(1924) West of the Water Tower
as Rev. Adrian Plummer