Ernest Truex was an American actor of stage, film, and television.
15 Facts About Ernest Truex
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Ernest Truex started acting at age five and toured through Missouri at age nine as "The Child Wonder in Scenes from Shakespeare".
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Ernest Truex played a leading role in The Fall Guy at the Apollo Theatre.
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Ernest Truex continued to perform in plays in London for the next three years while his two sons attended Leighton Park School in Reading.
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Ernest Truex made his film debut in 1913, but did not work in film full-time for another 20 years.
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Ernest Truex tended to play "milquetoast" characters and in The Warrior's Husband he played a "nance".
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Early in television, Ernest Truex guest starred on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town.
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Ernest Truex played aging Grandpa McHummer striking a bond with young Jamie, his recently orphaned grandson.
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Ernest Truex had the main role in the "Kick the Can" episode of Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone.
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Ernest Truex starred in the first season of The Ann Sothern Show as Jason Macauley, the manager of the swank Bartley House hotel in New York City.
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In 1960, Ernest Truex appeared with Harpo Marx in the episode "Silent Panic" of the anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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Ernest Truex guest starred on the sitcom Dennis the Menace, with Jay North as the series lead.
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Ernest Truex's career began in 1949 when he played the role of Ernest's youngest son in the TV situation comedy The Truex Family broadcast on WPIX New York.
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In 1934, Ernest Truex directed, co-produced, and starred in the play Sing and Whistle, which co-starred actress Sylvia Field who later became his third wife upon his divorce from Mary Jane Barrett.
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On June 26,1973, Ernest Truex died of a heart attack at the age of 83.