Jackie Vernon

Jackie Vernon was born on Mar 29, 1924 in USA. Jackie Vernon's big-screen debut came with The Monitors directed by Jack Shea in 1969, strarring Jackie Vernon. Jackie Vernon is known for A Touch of Grace directed by Carl Reiner, Shirley Booth stars as Grace Simpson and J. Pat O'Malley as Herbert Morrison. The upcoming new movie Jackie Vernon plays is Amazon Women on the Moon which will be released on Sep 18, 1987.

Mr. Vernon, who was born in New York as Ralph Verrone and attended City College, began his comedy career in the early 1950's after a stint in the Air Force. After many years of performing in small nightclubs around the country, the comedian Steve Allen discovered Mr. Vernon in a club in Windsor, Ontario, in 1963, and asked him to appear on his late-night television show, ''Celebrity Talent Scouts.'' Other television appearances followed, including with Jack Paar, who said, ''Of all the new comedians, this is the funniest that I've heard.'' Blended Humor and SatireIn the mid-1960's, Mr. Vernon's career took off, as he played such well-known clubs as the Hungry i in San Francisco and the Blue Angel in New York, and became something of a regular on Arthur Godfrey's radio show and, on television, on ''The Ed Sullivan Show,'' ''The Dean Martin Show'' and the ''Tonight'' show with Johnny Carson.In his television, club and Las Vegas performances, Mr. Vernon frequently played the hapless loser, whose deadpan routines often combined self-deprecating humor and imaginatively offbeat social and psychological satire. In one routine, the portly comedian described himself as someone ''who spends his time at parties in the room with the coats and whose idea of a good time is to go down to the bus terminal and pretend I'm going somewhere.''