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).
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Guilty Bystander
1950
as Dr. Elder
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Mr. Bell
1947
as Willis J. Watson
This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech, transmitted...
Mug Town
1942
as Mack Steward
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys m...
The Old Homestead
1942
as Councilman Bell
In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayo...
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
as The Judge
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Scattergood Rides High
1942
as Mr. Van Pelt
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he wil...
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Judge Rufus
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
as Maxwell B. Titus
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to ...
Go West, Young Lady
1941
as Judge Harmon
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Look Who's Laughing
1941
as Mayor
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistfu...
Unexpected Uncle
1941
as Sanderson
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Father Steps Out
1941
as J. B. Matthews
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his p...
Bachelor Daddy
1941
as C. J. Chase
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Roar of the Press
1941
as Gordon MacEwan
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Pot o' Gold
1941
as J.K. Louderman
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family ...
Remedy for Riches
1940
as Vanderveer
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
as Captain Moon
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana tryin...
Barnyard Follies
1940
as Sam Spitz
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
Young as You Feel
1940
as John Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go b...
Too Busy to Work
1939
as John Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their househ...
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
as Keystone Cop Police Chief
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for ...
Quick Millions
1939
as John Jones
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
as Uncle Ambrose
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
as John Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Exile Express
1939
as Hanley
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Everybody's Baby
1939
as John Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
I'll Tell the World
1939
as Joseph Burton
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine,"...
The Duke of West Point
1938
as Sonny's Father
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
Down on the Farm
1938
as John Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Keep Smiling
1938
as Jerome Lawson
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
Danger on the Air
1938
as Harry Jones
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder...
Safety in Numbers
1938
as John Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
A Trip to Paris
1938
as John Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be vict...
Goodbye Broadway
1938
as J.A. Higgins
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singer...
Walking Down Broadway
1938
as F.R. Randall
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...
Love on a Budget
1938
as John Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle wh...
Borrowing Trouble
1937
as John Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Life Begins in College
1937
as Oliver Stearns Sr.
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on...
Small Town Boy
1937
as Otis Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keep...
Hot Water
1937
as John Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937
as J.H. Blaine
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California ...
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
as Bitters
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderst...
You Can't Have Everything
1937
as Mr. Whiteman
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t...
Big Business
1937
as John Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Dangerous Holiday
1937
as Gifford
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
A Star Is Born
1937
as Artie Carver (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
The Crime Nobody Saw
1937
as William Underhill
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
Off to the Races
1937
as John Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
College Holiday
1936
as Sheriff Trimble
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Happy Go Lucky
1936
as Charles Gorham
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. For...
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
as Ed Grant
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Under Your Spell
1936
as Mr. Twerp
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
Libeled Lady
1936
as Dickson (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub...
The Texas Rangers
1936
as District Attorney Dave Twitchell
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Back to Nature
1936
as John Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and ...
His Brother's Wife
1936
as Bill Arnold
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no goo...
Little Miss Nobody
1936
as Hector Smythe
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Educating Father
1936
as John Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come i...
Special Investigator
1936
as Dr. Reynolds
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Champagne Charlie
1936
as Quinn
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Every Saturday Night
1936
as Mr. Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Navy Wife
1935
as Dr. Barratt
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Black Sheep
1935
as Orville Schmelling
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his...
Life Begins at Forty
1935
as Charles Beagle
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...
One Hour Late
1934
as Mr. Finch
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Music in the Air
1934
as Kirschner
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
Love Time
1934
as First Policeman (uncredited)
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him t...
His Greatest Gamble
1934
as Roulette Player (uncredited)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
as Dr. Levine
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in h...
I Believed in You
1934
as Joe Long i.e. Lang
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon fi...
The Big Bluff
1933
In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
Jimmy and Sally
1933
as E.W. Marlowe
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart S...
Skyway
1933
as Calvin Baker
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
She Had to Say Yes
1933
as Mr. Goran (uncredited)
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have be...
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933
as Stubby (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Manhattan Tower
1932
as Mr. Hoyt
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
70,000 Witnesses
1932
as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and...
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
as Lynwood Warden Charles Clark
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
The Purchase Price
1932
as Elks Crossing Jeweler (uncredited)
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationshi...
Business and Pleasure
1932
as Ben Wackstle
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes...
The Age for Love
1931
as Floyd Evans
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
The Secret Call
1931
as Jim Neligan
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgr...
Night Nurse
1931
as Archie - Father-to-be (uncredited)
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small chil...
Strangers May Kiss
1931
as Harry
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advic...
Paid
1930
as Officer Williams (uncredited)
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her convi...
The Florodora Girl
1930
as Old Man Dell
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
True to the Navy
1930
as Dance Hall Manager
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets he...
The Devil's Holiday
1930
as Kent Carr
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie...
It's a Great Life
1929
as Mr. David Parker
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act u...
Why Leave Home?
1929
as George
Fox musical.
The Girl in the Show
1929
as Newton Wampler
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decid...
The Fall of Eve
1929
as Tom Ford Sr
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When M...
Two Weeks Off
1929
as Harry
Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave...
Sonny Boy
1929
as Phil
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her ...
The Broadway Melody
1929
as Uncle Jed (uncredited)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfie...
His Captive Woman
1929
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCar...
Name the Woman
1928
as Sam Palmer
Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
The Siren
1927
as Geoffrey Fuller
A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino ...
No Place to Go
1927
as Uncle Edgar
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
Orchids and Ermine
1927
as Leander Blom
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of weal...
Bred in Old Kentucky
1926
Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the property in order to get the money needed to enter...
Everybody's Acting
1926
as Bridwell Potter
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has...
Don Juan's 3 Nights
1926
as Lippi
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Unknown Treasures
1926
as Remus
A poor man refrains from proposing to the woman he loves until he can secure the fortune left him by his uncle. Believing the treasure awaits in his u...
Miss Nobody
1926
as The Farmer
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dr...
Ella Cinders
1926
as Mayor
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of ...
Scarlet Saint
1925
as Mr. Tridon
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the...
The Coast of Folly
1925
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge ...
The Knockout
1925
as 'Mac' MacMahon
A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm ...
The Gold Diggers
1923
as Barney Barnett
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers,...
The Girl of the Golden West
1923
as Nick
Not realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez. Trapped by a snowstorm Ramerrez is forced to stay the n...
Souls for Sale
1923
as Magnus (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Kick In
1922
as Jimmy Monahan
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. H...
Experience
1921
as Good Nature
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure an...
The Conquest of Canaan
1921
as Norbert Flintcroft
Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -...
The Great Adventure
1921
as Mr. Witt
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
Sadie Love
1919
as James Wakeley
Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmie Wakely, a suitor she has not seen in a year. She...