Ernest Truex
| Ernest Truex | |
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| Born |
September 19, 1889 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | June 26, 1973 (aged 83) Fallbrook San Diego County, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1913–1966 |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Mills (m. 19??; her death 19??) Mary Jane Barrett (m. 19??; div. 19??) Sylvia Field (m. 1937; his death 1973) |
| Children | 3 |
Ernest Truex (September 19, 1889 – June 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Truex started acting at age five and toured through Missouri at age nine as "The Child Wonder in Scenes from Shakespeare". His Broadway debut came in 1908, and he performed in several David Belasco plays and portrayed the title role in the 1915 musical Very Good Eddie. Truex played the lead role in the disastrous 1923 premiere of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Vegetable. In 1927, he created the role of Bill Paradene in Good Morning, Bill, adapted by P. G. Wodehouse based on a play by Ladislaus Fodor.
In 1926 he performed for the first time in London's West End. He played a leading role in The Fall Guy at the Apollo Theatre. He continued to perform in plays in London for the next three years while his two sons attended Leighton Park boarding school in Reading. In 1927 he acted in Good Morning, Bill at the Duke of York's Theatre and in 1928 he performed in Sexes and Sevens at the Globe Theatre.
He made his film debut in 1913, but did not work in film full-time for another twenty years. He tended to play "milquetoast" characters and in The Warrior's Husband he played a "nance". In the 1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo, he played Marco Polo's comical assistant, opposite Gary Cooper.
Early in television, Truex guest starred on CBS's Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town. In 1949, Truex played Caspar Milquetoast on the DuMont Television Network's Program Playhouse Series. From 1953 to 1954, he co-starred with a young Brandon deWilde in Jamie on ABC. He played aging Grandpa McHummer striking a bond with young Jamie, his recently orphaned grandson.
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