Actor
Jed Prouty
Born 1879-04-06Died 1956-05-10aged 77
Jed Prouty (1879–1956) is best known for One Hundred Men and a Girl, A Star Is Born and Libeled Lady.
Jed Prouty (born Clarence Gordon Prouty; April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Today's audiences may recognize him as the stammering vaudeville booker in The Broadway Melody (1929), the theater manager in Laurel and Hardy's Hollywood Party (1934), the oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937), the chief of the Keystone Cops in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), and the network-radio executive in James Stewart's Pot o' Gold (1941).