E. J. Ratcliffe

Edward J. Ratcliffe
Still with Ratcliffe and Madge Kennedy in Help Yourself (1920)
Born	(1863-03-10)10 March 1863 London, England
Died	28 September 1948(1948-09-28) (aged 85) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1880s-1933
Spouse(s)	Caroline Ravenhill (m. 1883–98; divorced) Alice De Lacy (m. 1894–98; divorced) Blanche Stoddard
Children	Virginia Ratcliffe McAleenan Dorothy Ratcliffe Taylor

Caroline Ravenhill
(m. 1883–98; divorced)
Alice De Lacy
(m. 1894–98; divorced)

Virginia Ratcliffe McAleenan

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.