Bobby Vernon 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's
Almost an Actress (1913) and
later worked for Mack Sennett, who teamed
him up with young Gloria Swanson in 9
comedies between 1916 and 1917, most memorably in
Teddy at the Throttle (1917),
which also co-starred Wallace Beery,
Gloria Swanson'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 and Bing Crosby.
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 and Bing Crosby.
