Edward J. Ratcliffe (10 March 1863 – 28 September 1948) was an English actor of stage and screen.[4] 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.[5]

Edward J. Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe in a 1912 play
Born	(1863-03-10)10 March 1863 London, England
Died	28 September 1948(1948-09-28) (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1880s-1933
Spouse(s)	Caroline Ravenhill (m. 1883–98; divorced)[1] Alice De Lacy (m. 1894–98; divorced)[2] Blanche Stoddard[3]
Children	Virginia Ratcliffe McAleenan Dorothy Ratcliffe Taylor

Ratcliffe played Theodore Roosevelt in three films: The Fighting Roosevelts (1919), Sundown (1924), and I Loved a Woman (1933).

New York barman Patrick Duffy claimed Ratcliffe brought the highball from England to the U.S. in 1894.[6]

Selected filmography

See also

• List of actors who played President of the United States

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to E. J. Ratcliffe.

• E. J. Ratcliffe at IMDb
• E. J. Ratcliffe at the Internet Broadway Database
• E. J. Ratcliffe (page): North American Theatre Online(registration required) - website offered to most colleges and universities free
• E. J. Ratcliffe in a 1912 play (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
• E. J. Ratcliffe in his youth; portrait (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
• Ratcliffe and Effie Shannon in their youth in the 1890s(Sarony portrait)