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 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.
1933
as Theodore Roosevelt
1930
as McPherson
1930
as Trundle
1930
as John Farell
1929
1929
as Wellington
1929
as Col. Eustace
1928
as Nathan Bixby
1928
as Wareham
1927
as Mr. Palmer
1927
as Fred Bowers
1927
as John Cable
1927
as Alphonse Laurens
1927
as Dr. Digby Grant
1926
as Don Hathaway Sr.
1926
as James Greenfield
1926
as Dad Hinchfield
1926
as Mr. Grubbell
1926
as McLaughlin
1926
as Judge Richard Gregory
1926
as The Governor
1925
1925
as John Perry
1924
as President Theodore Roosevelt
1924
as Father John Hollister
1921
as Henry Armstrong
1921
as Martin Cardine
1921
as Hugh Meyers
1921
as Ambition
1921
as Lord Leonard Alcar
1920
as Ellis Graeber - Mine Owner
1920
as Peyster Sproul
1920
as John Harrison
1919
1919
as Lord Frederick Berolles
1915
as Don Philip II, King of Spain