Ernest Truex: Ernest Truex. Actor: His Girl Friday. The ultimate milquetoast and ineffectual boss in comedy outings, meek character actor Ernest Truex was a small (5'3"), adenoidal, very well-dressed fellow, a popular avuncular type in later years who enjoyed a seven-decade-long career. He was born September 19, 1889, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of a physician. Raised in Rich Hill, Missouri, he was actually trained in acting by one of his...
Known For: His Girl Friday (Bensinger), Whistling in the Dark (Wallace Porter), The Twilight Zone (Charles WhitleyPedott), Oh, You Women! (Abraham Lincoln Jones)