Ernest Hilliard
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 31, 1890
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The Lost Weekend
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
Gilda
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
The Noose
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Dynamite
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
The Matinee Idol
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
The Big Diamond Robbery
A ranch foreman is assigned to escort his employer's daughter from the big city back to the ranch. The girl is carrying the valuable Regent diamond and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves.
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Filmography
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as English Cartel Member (uncredited)
as Headwaiter (uncredited)
as Assistant Hazard Banker (uncredited)
as Sponsor (uncredited)
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Wayne
as Man in Waiting Room
as Senator (uncredited)
as 'Pepe' J. Morgan
as Mr. Oliver (uncredited)
as Salesman
as Banker Ed Randall
as Reggie Winton
as Walter Bernard, the Editor
as Walker Hammond
as Waiter (uncredited)
as James E. Dawson
as Mr. Hoss, Millard's Manager (uncredited)
as Jameson
as Salisbury's Manager
as Prince Ivan Petroff
as Maj. Pat Lovering
as Davison - Tailor Shop Owner
as Morton
as Good Mixer
as Savage
as Eddie Graham
as Radio Station Employee
as Rodney Stevens
as Literary Club Host (uncredited)
as Jim Leeson
as Jack's Second Friend
as Ben Barnett
as Prince Josef Miguel
as Dick
as Arnold Wingate
as Craig
as Harry Wells
as Bodo Lambert
as Wade Burton
as Crook
as Capt. Blackwell
as Colonel Vega
as Martyn Edwards
as Stephen Carrington
as Jack Prentice
as Maj. Walters
as Walter Powell
as Frank Draper
as Walter Stanley
as Carter Andrews
as Carlos Blasco
as Irving Sneed
as David Granger