Bobby Vernon

'Bobby Vernon' (qv) was born in the U.S. in 1897, was trained in Vaudeville and became a talented comic in the silent era. He began working in 1913, appearing in 'Lon Chaney' (qv)'s _Almost an Actress (1913)_ (qv) and later worked for 'Mack Sennett' (qv), who teamed him up with young 'Gloria Swanson' (qv) in 9 comedies between 1916 and 1917, most memorably in _Teddy at the Throttle (1917)_ (qv), which also co-starred 'Wallace Beery' (qv), 'Gloria Swanson' (qv)'s husband, off-screen.When the sound era arrived, he starred in three more films and retired to be a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for 'W.C. Fields' (qv) and 'Bing Crosby' (qv).::Daniel Z. Dopierala, Melbourne Australia