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Ernest Torrance-Thomson
Ernest Torrence
Acting
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, he toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as "The Emerald Isle" (1901) and…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
The Tingler
as Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
I Cover the Waterfront
as Eli Kirk (Julie's father)
Sherlock Holmes
as Professor James Moriarty
Hypnotized
as Prof. Horace S. Limberly - Hypnotist
The Cuban Love Song
as Romance
Fighting Caravans
as Bill Jackson
Sporting Blood
as Mr. Jim Rellence
The Great Lover
as Potter