Vernon Dent
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Character comedian Vernon Dent started out in show business as part of a singing troupe, and his friend Hank Mann -- one of the Keystone Kops for comedy producer Mack Sennett -- got him into comedy shorts during the 1920s. Dent did his own series of comedy shorts for Pathe Studios and then did a number of shorts with baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon for Sennett. After Langdon left Senne...
Biography
Character comedian Vernon Dent started out in show business as part of a singing troupe, and his friend Hank Mann -- one of the Keystone Kops for comedy producer Mack Sennett -- got him into comedy shorts during the 1920s. Dent did his own series of comedy shorts for Pathe Studios and then did a number of shorts with baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon for Sennett. After Langdon left Sennett to make his own features, Dent stayed on in support of comics like Billy Bevan and Ralph Graves, and in the 1930s, after Langdon's star had waned, Dent again supported him in a series of comedy shorts for Educational Pictures. In 1935, Dent signed with Columbia Studios, and they kept him busy in short subjects and also some features, including two bits in Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "Meet John Doe." Dent is probably best known, though, as a foil for The Three Stooges in several of their comic shorts.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
When Comedy Was King
(1960)
Sunny Side of the Street
(1951)
King
Bonanza Town
(1951)
Whiskers
Kill the Umpire
(1950)
Phone company manager
The Good Humor Man
(1950)
Fat man in park
Beware of Blondie
(1950)
Sheriff
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(1949)
Guard
Make Believe Ballroom
(1949)
Chef
The Doolins of Oklahoma
(1949)
Express man
And Baby Makes Three
(1949)
Umpire
Merton of the Movies
(1947)
Kop
It Had to Be You
(1947)
Man in drug store
The Road to Hollywood
(1947)
Director
The Sea of Grass
(1947)
Conductor
Wild Harvest
(1947)
Farmer
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)
Bartender
Night Editor
(1946)
Fat man
Dangerous Business
(1946)
Fat man
Renegades
(1946)
Caleb Smart
Lone Star Moonlight
(1946)
Sheriff
It's Great to Be Young
(1946)
Pop
Cowboy Blues
(1946)
Preston
See My Lawyer
(1945)
Person in mud gag
Song of the Prairie
(1945)
J. C. Parker
Rockin' in the Rockies
(1945)
Stanton
Sagebrush Heroes
(1945)
Editor Haines
Sing Me a Song of Texas
(1945)
Real estate man
She Gets Her Man
(1945)
Doorman/Stage hand
Having Wonderful Crime
(1945)
Guest
Snafu
(1945)
Legionnaire Legionnaires
I Love a Bandleader
(1945)
Counter man
Let's Go Steady
(1945)
Bosby
Address Unknown
(1944)
Party member
San Diego, I Love You
(1944)
Mr. Fitzmaurice
Chip Off the Old Block
(1944)
Scheffer
Once Upon a Time
(1944)
Businessman
Mrs. Parkington
(1944)
Quarette member
Jam Session
(1944)
Butler
Kansas City Kitty
(1944)
Piano mover
Her Primitive Man
(1944)
Doorman
True to Life
(1943)
Cowboy in the Clouds
(1943)
Publisher Whitson
My Favorite Blonde
(1942)
Ole, bartender
House of Errors
(1942)
White
The Glass Key
(1942)
Bartender
San Antonio Rose
(1941)
Bedtime Story
(1941)
Conventioneer
You're the One
(1941)
Guest at Zeno Springs Hotel
Meet John Doe
(1941)
The Doctor Takes A Wife
(1940)
The Lady in Question
(1940)
Gendarme
The Lone Wolf Strikes
(1940)
Doorman
He Stayed for Breakfast
(1940)
Chef
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)
Senate reporter
Stanley and Livingstone
(1939)
Newspaperman
Only Angels Have Wings
(1939)
Boat captain
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
(1939)
Fat man
Beasts of Berlin
(1939)
Lustig
Little Miss Roughneck
(1938)
Start Cheering
(1938)
Assistant producer
Reformatory
(1938)
Cook Howard
Thanks for the Memory
(1938)
Refuse man
The Lone Wolf in Paris
(1938)
Rene
When G-Men Step In
(1938)
Colonel
Who Killed Gail Preston?
(1938)
Watchman
Extortion
(1938)
The Shadow
(1937)
Dutch Schultz
Easy Living
(1937)
First partner
Murder in Greenwich Village
(1937)
Ship's officer
The Awful Truth
(1937)
Police sergeant
Outlaws of the Prairie
(1937)
Bearded man
San Francisco
(1936)
Fat man
Manhattan Melodrama
(1934)
Old German man
You're Telling Me!
(1934)
Fat man
The Painted Veil
(1934)
Chief of police
Million Dollar Legs
(1932)
Secretary of Agriculture
Business and Pleasure
(1932)
Charlie Turner
The Riding Tornado
(1932)
Hefty
Daring Danger
(1932)
Texas Cyclone
(1932)
Hefty
Dragnet Patrol
(1931)
Cookie
Midnight Daddies
(1930)
Golf Widows
(1928)
Ernest Wardrobe
The Cameraman
(1928)
Fat man in tight bathing suit
His First Flame
(1927)
Amos McCarthy
Soul of the Beast
(1923)
The Boob
The Extra Girl
(1923)
Aaron Applejohn
Hail the Woman
(1921)
Joe Hurd
Cast (Short)
The Heckler
(1940)
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
(1939)
Good Morning, Eve!
(1934)
Crazy House
(1930)
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
(1929)
The Best Man
(1928)
His Unlucky Night
(1928)
The Golf Nut
(1927)
The Pride Of Pikeville
(1927)
Fiddlesticks
(1927)
Saturday Afternoon
(1926)
Hoboken to Hollywood
(1926)
A Sea Dog's Tale
(1926)
His Marriage Wow
(1925)
Picking Peaches
(1924)
Black Oxfords
(1924)
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