From Wikipedia Jed Prouty (April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Prouty was a vaudeville performer before becoming a film actor. Mostly appearing in comedies, he occasionally performed a serious character role, for instance a small part as an oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937).
Life Begins in College
1937
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
No Place to Go
1927
Navy Wife
1935
Experience
1921
Dangerous Holiday
1937
Guilty Bystander
1950
Two Weeks Off
1929
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
Exile Express
1939
Night Nurse
1931
The Coast of Folly
1925
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
Love Time
1934
The Broadway Melody
1929
College Holiday
1936
Black Sheep
1935
The Girl in the Show
1929
Go West, Young Lady
1941
Libeled Lady
1936
Goodbye Broadway
1938
Walking Down Broadway
1938
Life Begins at Forty
1935
The Fall of Eve
1929
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Remedy for Riches
1940
The Crime Nobody Saw
1937
Look Who's Laughing
1941
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
A Star Is Born
1937
Danger on the Air
1938
Skyway
1933
Under Your Spell
1936
Ella Cinders
1926
Why Leave Home?
1929
The Conquest of Canaan
1921
Murder on the Blackboard
1934