Ernest Truex

Actor Sep 18 (died age 83) Kansas City, Missouri, USA 1913–1965 (52 year career)

5.6 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Twilight Zone

1959 · as Pedott

8.5

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · as Howard Rutherford

7.8

Kraft Television Theatre

1947 · as White Knight

7.5

Known For

Film

His Girl Friday

Bensinger

Film

Christmas in July

Mr. Baxter

Film

Bachelor Mother

Investigator

Film

Dance, Girl, Dance

Bailey #1

Film

It's a Wonderful World

Willie Heyward

Film

All Mine to Give

Doctor Delbert

Film

This Is the Army

Soldier's Father (uncredited)

Film

The Twilight Zone

Pedott

Filmography

Acting (92)

Movies (69)

Fluffy

1965

as Claridge

6.5

Twilight for the Gods

as Rev. Butterfield

All Mine to Give

as Doctor Delbert

If You Knew Elizabeth

1957

as Uncle John

The Leather Saint

1956

as Father Ritchie

Our Town

1955

as Dr. Gibbs

Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland

1954

as White Knight

The Girl from Manhattan

as Homer Purdy

Always Together

as Timothy J. Bull

Night in Paradise

as Scribe

Men in Her Diary

as Vernon Williams

Club Havana

as Willy Kingston

Life with Blondie

as Theodor Glassby

Pan-Americana

as Uncle Rudy

Her Primitive Man

as Uncle Hubert

Chip Off the Old Block

1944

as Henry McHugh

4.0

This Is the Army

1943

as Soldier's Father (uncredited)

5.6

Rhythm of the Islands

as Mr. Holton

True to Life

as Oscar Elkins

Sleepy Lagoon

as Dudley Joyner

Fired Wife

as Willie Wilson

Twin Beds

as Larky

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Murgatroyd

Private Buckaroo

as Col. Elias Weatherford

4.7

You're Telling Me

1942

as Charles Handley

The Affairs of Martha

as Llewellyn Castle

Don't Get Personal

as Jules Kinsey

Tillie the Toiler

as George Winkler

Unexpected Uncle

as Wilkins

We Go Fast

as Harold Bruggins

The Gay Vagabond

as A.J. Wilber

His Girl Friday

as Bensinger

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Bailey #1

Christmas in July

as Mr. Baxter

Little Orvie

as Frank Stone

Calling All Husbands

as Homer Trippe

Lillian Russell

as Charles K. Leonard

6.1

Adventure in Diamonds

as Toutasche

Island of Lost Men

as Frobenius

Ambush

as Mr. Gibbs

Bachelor Mother

as Investigator

It's a Wonderful World

as Willie Heyward

The Under-Pup

as Mr. Binns

Slightly Honorable

as P. Hemingway Collins

Little Accident

as Tabby Morgan

These Glamour Girls

as Alumnus

Start Cheering

as Blodgett

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938

as Binguccio

6.0

Swing, Sister, Swing

1938

as Prof. L. Orlando Beebee

Swing That Cheer

1938

as Professor Peabody

Freshman Year

1938

as Professor Peabody

Mama Runs Wild

1937

as Ernest Summers

Everybody Dance

as Wilbur Spurgeon

The Expectant Father

Gentlemen of the Bar

His Lucky Day

Dog-gone Babies

Whistling in the Dark

as Wallace Porter

Get That Venus

as Tom Wilson

The Warrior's Husband

1933

as Sapiens

Mr. Adam

1933

as Adam

Six Cylinder Love

1923

as Gilbert Sterling

Oh, You Women!

1919

as Abraham Lincoln Jones

Come on In

1918

as Ernest Short

Good-Bye, Bill

1918

as Teddy Swift

A Good Little Devil

1914

as Charles MacLance - a Good Little Devil

The Bomb Boy

1914

as Jimmie - the Messenger Boy

An American Citizen

1914

as Mercury

Caprice

1913

as Wally Henderson

1.0

Television (23)

Petticoat Junction

as Oliver Fenton

Grindl

Hazel

as Robert Dunlap

Pete and Gladys

The Tom Ewell Show

The Twilight Zone

as Pedott

Dennis the Menace

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Daniel

The Ann Sothern Show

as Jason McCauley

Matinee Theater

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Howard Rutherford

The Millionaire

as Andrew Sterling

Climax!

as Uncle William

Father Knows Best

as Grampa

Inner Sanctum

Jamie

as Grandpa McHummer

Lux Video Theatre

as Barkley Cooper

Cameo Theatre

Suspense

as George Thomas

Studio One

as Martin Bristol

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948

6.3

The Ford Theatre Hour

1948

as Dan Dorgan

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

as White Knight

7.5