Jed Prouty
Date of birth: 1879-04-05
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Clarence Gordon Prouty
Biography
From Wikipedia Jed Prouty (April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Prouty was a vaudeville performer before becoming a film actor. Mostly appearing in comedies, he occasionally performed a serious character role, for instance a small part as an oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937).
Movie Credits
The Old Homestead
1942-08-17
In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify
Why Leave Home?
1929-10-01
Fox musical.
The Conquest of Canaan
1921-07-10
Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. Ther
Sonny Boy
1929-04-18
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into
Sadie Love
1919-10-19
Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmi
Guilty Bystander
1950-04-20
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal go
No Place to Go
1927-10-30
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it
Pot o' Gold
1941-04-03
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. B
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939-06-02
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
The Texas Rangers
1936-08-28
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to
Love Time
1934-11-03
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie hap
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr
Experience
1921-08-07
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There,
Kick In
1922-12-17
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool
The Great Adventure
1921-01-06
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must kee
Special Investigator
1936-05-08
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is kill
Don Juan's 3 Nights
1926-09-04
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939-06-02
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a stud
Manhattan Tower
1932-12-01
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a c
The Crime Nobody Saw
1937-03-12
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of
Big Business
1937-06-18
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil
Unexpected Uncle
1941-11-07
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
The Big Bluff
1933-12-02
In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be fro
Happy Go Lucky
1936-12-13
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold
Remedy for Riches
1940-11-29
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in t
Goodbye Broadway
1938-04-01
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town o
Dangerous Holiday
1937-06-06
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
College Holiday
1936-12-19
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Small Town Boy
1937-09-24
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "h
Love on a Budget
1938-03-04
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending
Go West, Young Lady
1941-11-27
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outla
Life Begins in College
1937-10-01
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th
Business and Pleasure
1932-02-24
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fat
Little Miss Nobody
1936-06-05
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
The Devil's Holiday
1930-05-09
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat
The Age for Love
1931-10-17
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and
Exile Express
1939-05-27
When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being depor
Danger on the Air
1938-06-30
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio sho
The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is
Night Nurse
1931-07-16
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh
His Brother's Wife
1936-08-07
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to mar
Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casu
A Trip to Paris
1938-05-06
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jone
His Captive Woman
1929-02-03
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of
Skyway
1933-08-29
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her
Black Sheep
1935-08-01
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized b
Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Ella Cinders
1926-06-06
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local bea
Everybody's Acting
1926-10-04
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the
You Can't Have Everything
1937-08-02
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of st
Scarlet Saint
1925-11-08
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage t
Quick Millions
1939-08-25
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at
It's a Great Life
1929-12-06
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As
The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th
His Greatest Gamble
1934-08-10
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
True to the Navy
1930-05-25
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stop
Champagne Charlie
1936-05-06
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940-11-02
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf ke
I'll Tell the World
1939-03-09
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power
Hold 'Em Jail
1932-08-19
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship
Libeled Lady
1936-10-09
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f
It Happened in Flatbush
1942-05-28
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is
Barnyard Follies
1940-10-05
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by
Every Saturday Night
1936-03-13
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through
Educating Father
1936-05-23
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi
Father Steps Out
1941-07-19
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an
Keep Smiling
1938-08-12
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncl
Everybody's Baby
1939-03-24
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o
Music in the Air
1934-12-13
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead rol
Murder on the Blackboard
1934-06-15
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds th
Life Begins at Forty
1935-03-22
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to
She Had to Say Yes
1933-07-15
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Grea
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937-09-05
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends a
Mug Town
1942-12-18
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr
Young as You Feel
1940-02-16
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life.
The Secret Call
1931-07-24
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy
Roar of the Press
1941-04-17
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
The Broadway Melody
1929-02-08
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns
Two Weeks Off
1929-05-11
Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works a
A Star Is Born
1937-04-27
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at
The Gold Diggers
1923-09-22
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he beli
Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod
Paid
1930-12-30
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot
The Purchase Price
1932-07-23
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a
Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor
The Fall of Eve
1929-06-17
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists E
Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri
Navy Wife
1935-09-17
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Miss Nobody
1926-06-27
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a g
Scattergood Rides High
1942-05-08
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness r
Bachelor Daddy
1941-06-04
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Hot Water
1937-09-24
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new
Back to Nature
1936-08-14
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with
Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l
Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Safety in Numbers
1938-05-30
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d
I Believed in You
1934-04-09
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
70,000 Witnesses
1932-09-09
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses,
The Knockout
1925-08-23
A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a w
Bred in Old Kentucky
1926-11-21
Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the
One Hour Late
1934-12-14
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose
Jimmy and Sally
1933-11-04
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero
The Coast of Folly
1925-09-21
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20
Off to the Races
1937-02-05
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps
Look Who's Laughing
1941-11-21
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufactu
Mr. Bell
1947-03-13
This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson
Can This Be Dixie?
1936-11-13
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old pl
The Girl of the Golden West
1923-05-03
Not realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez. Trapp
Name the Woman
1928-05-25
Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
Orchids and Ermine
1927-03-06
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams
The Siren
1927-12-20
A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Co
Unknown Treasures
1926-09-01
A poor man refrains from proposing to the woman he loves until he can secure the fortune left him by