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Bobby Vernon (March 9, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois – June 28, 1939 in Hollywood, California) was an American comedic actor in silent films. He later became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Sources indicate that he was born Sylvion de Jardin. Blue-eyed with medium brown hair, he stood only five feet and two-and-a-half inches. ''Who's Who on the Screen,'' a collection of brief biographies on popular actors of 1920, even considered him a "veritable matinee idol." ==Life and career== The Chicago-born son of entertainers Harry Burns and Dorothy Vernon (born Dorothy Baird), Bobby first appeared onstage at the age of eleven. For a few years, he was part of the vaudeville act Kolb and Dill, performing in musical comedies. When Max Dill broke his leg in their show, "The Rollicking Girl," Vernon replaced him for three weeks. His first experience in screen was at the age of sixteen in in Universal Studios's ''Joker'' comedies. By 1915, he was working in Keystone romantic comedies opposite Gloria Swanson. He later described his Keystone days to ''Motion Picture Classic:'' With the coming of World War I, Vernon joined the Navy. In 1917, he was working in Al Christie romantic comedies. Even to the late 1920s, he was still making silly, slapstick two-reelers, and as Dorothy Lubou put it, he had no "Chaplinesque Hamlet" ambitions. His main focus was just on making people laugh. In his own words: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobby Vernon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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