Jed Prouty
Jed Prouty | |
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Prouty in 1923 | |
| Born | Clarence Gordon Prouty April 6, 1879 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1956 (aged 77) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1910–1952 (including stage years before movies) |
| Spouse | Marion Murray (?-1951; her death) |
Jed Prouty (born Clarence Gordon Prouty; April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Today's audiences may recognize him as the stammering vaudeville booker in The Broadway Melody (1929), the theater manager in Laurel and Hardy's Hollywood Party (1934), the oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937), the chief of the Keystone Cops in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), and the network-radio executive in James Stewart's Pot o' Gold (1941).