Jed Prouty
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).
A Star Is Born
as Artie Carver (uncredited)Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies....
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The Broadway Melody
as Uncle Jed (uncredited)The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie...
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Night Nurse
as Archie - Father-to-be (uncredited)Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her...
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Libeled Lady
as Dickson (uncredited)When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and...
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Quick Millions
as John JonesIn Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
as Keystone Cop Police ChiefStarting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Maxwell B. TitusA New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...
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Pot o' Gold
as J.K. LoudermanJimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food...
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
as Uncle AmbroseThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
as BittersThe daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed...
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Guilty Bystander
as Dr. ElderA drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling...
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The Purchase Price
as Elks Crossing Jeweler (uncredited)Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride...
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Danger on the Air
as Harry JonesTrouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio...
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His Brother's Wife
as Bill ArnoldEpidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to...
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Off to the Races
as John JonesThe Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family...
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Strangers May Kiss
as HarryAfter years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy,...
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You Can't Have Everything
as Mr. WhitemanStarving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate...
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Manhattan Tower
as Mr. HoytThe lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of...
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Ella Cinders
as MayorPoor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local...
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Everybody's Acting
as Bridwell PotterDoris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of...
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Dangerous Holiday
as GiffordA young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Souls for Sale
as Magnus (uncredited)A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Too Busy to Work
as John JonesThe Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to...
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Business and Pleasure
as Ben WackstleOn a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme...
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Paid
as Officer Williams (uncredited)Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she...
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The Age for Love
as Floyd EvansA comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her...
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The Old Homestead
as Councilman BellIn this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime...
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Music in the Air
as KirschnerA songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead...
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Goodbye Broadway
as J.A. HigginsPat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small...
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Look Who's Laughing
as MayorFibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft...
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Exile Express
as HanleyA San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Roar of the Press
as Gordon MacEwanWhile on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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The Texas Rangers
as District Attorney Dave TwitchellTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned...
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70,000 Witnesses
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He...
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She Had to Say Yes
as Mr. Goran (uncredited)Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the...
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Black Sheep
as Orville SchmellingOn an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man...
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
as Captain MoonComplicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone...
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Murder on the Blackboard
as Dr. LevineThere are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she...
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True to the Navy
as Dance Hall ManagerRuby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors...
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Under Your Spell
as Mr. TwerpA famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...
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Young as You Feel
as John JonesFather sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city...
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The Florodora Girl
as Old Man DellA chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she...
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Safety in Numbers
as John JonesThe Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich...
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Big Business
as John JonesA small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an...
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Champagne Charlie
as QuinnThe story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Unexpected Uncle
as SandersonAn elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
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Special Investigator
as Dr. ReynoldsA lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is...
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Love on a Budget
as John JonesThis late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family...
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The Great Adventure
as Mr. WittAn artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must...
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Borrowing Trouble
as John JonesThe Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken...
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Walking Down Broadway
as F.R. RandallFive closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...
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Sophie Lang Goes West
as J.H. BlaineReformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every...
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It Happened in Flatbush
as The JudgeA washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports...
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Obliging Young Lady
as Judge RufusA woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents'...
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His Captive Woman
as uncreditedCabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht...
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I Believed in You
as Joe Long i.e. Langan aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in...
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The Duke of West Point
as Sonny's FatherA cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because...
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Skyway
as Calvin BakerA cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where...
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Go West, Young Lady
as Judge HarmonA young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of...
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Jimmy and Sally
as E.W. MarloweJimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our...
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Little Miss Nobody
as Hector SmytheA runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Educating Father
as John JonesJones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than...
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The Conquest of Canaan
as Norbert FlintcroftJoe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike....
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The Devil's Holiday
as Kent CarrBeautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy...
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A Trip to Paris
as John JonesThe Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma...
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Sonny Boy
as PhilSonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister...
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Love Time
as First Policeman (uncredited)Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
as John JonesFather goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a...
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Stubby (Uncredited)A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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Father Steps Out
as J. B. MatthewsStory concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent...
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The Secret Call
as Jim NeliganThe Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.)...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Remedy for Riches
as VanderveerA small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry...
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Life Begins in College
as Oliver Stearns Sr.When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has...
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Life Begins at Forty
as Charles BeagleA small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...
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Every Saturday Night
as Mr. EversFirst of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother...
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Bred in Old Kentucky
as uncreditedKatie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages...
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His Greatest Gamble
as Roulette Player (uncredited)A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Hot Water
as John JonesThe Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous...
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One Hour Late
as Mr. FinchA secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to...
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Miss Nobody
as The FarmerThe father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with...
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The Girl in the Show
as Newton WamplerIn this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed...
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Mug Town
as Mack StewardSteve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card...
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
as LippiA concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
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Scarlet Saint
as Mr. TridonHeroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in...
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Happy Go Lucky
as Charles GorhamA singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have...
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Navy Wife
as Dr. BarrattA Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Barnyard Follies
as Sam SpitzA country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut...
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It's a Great Life
as Mr. David ParkerCasey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a...
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College Holiday
as Sheriff TrimbleCollege students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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The Gold Diggers
as Barney BarnettStephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he...
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Down on the Farm
as John JonesExcitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Can This Be Dixie?
as Ed GrantA young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an...
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I'll Tell the World
as Joseph BurtonThis 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling...
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Scattergood Rides High
as Mr. Van PeltWhen Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a...
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Keep Smiling
as Jerome LawsonJane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director...
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Back to Nature
as John JonesThe Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved...
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No Place to Go
as Uncle EdgarStarry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her...
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The Big Bluff
as uncreditedIn order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be...
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Two Weeks Off
as HarryFrances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also...
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Bachelor Daddy
as C. J. ChaseThe lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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The Crime Nobody Saw
as William UnderhillThree playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
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The Girl of the Golden West
as NickNot realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez....
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The Knockout
as 'Mac' MacMahonA Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about...
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Hold 'Em Jail
as Lynwood Warden Charles ClarkTwo yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's...
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Kick In
as Jimmy MonahanAfter serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a...
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Everybody's Baby
as John JonesThe Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to...
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Experience
as Good NatureYouth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city....
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