Ernest Torrence

Ernest Torrence was born on Jun 26, 1878 in UK. Ernest Torrence's big-screen debut came with A Dangerous Affair directed by Charles Miller in 1919, strarring Abner (as Ernest Torrance). Ernest Torrence is known for The King of Kings directed by Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner stars as Jesus - The Christ and Dorothy Cumming as Mary - The Mother. The upcoming new movie Ernest Torrence plays is The King of Kings which will be released on Jan 01, 2004.

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 "The Talk of the Town" (1905) before serious vocal problems set in. Both Ernest and his actor brother