Trivia

His only child, Eric Blore Jr., died on February 26, 2014 at the age of 87.

Had one grandchild at the time of his death.

Son, Eric Blore, Jr., Born May 13, 1927 in New York, N.Y.

He appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), The Lady Eve (1941) and Sullivan's Travels (1941).

Blore was the first customer to patronise the bar at the newly opened Cock 'n Bull when Ainsworth Morgan opened the original Cock 'n Bull on the Sunset Strip on 21 April 1937. Blore entered at 4:02 p.m., two minutes after Morgan opened the door to the public.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 52-53. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Father: Henry Blore; Mother: Mary Newton.