Vernon Dent
Acting • Born 1895-02-15 – Died 1963-11-05
Biography
Vernon Bruce Dent (February 16, 1895 – November 5, 1963) was an American comic actor, who appeared in over 400 films. He co-starred in many short films for Columbia Pictures, frequently as the foil and the main antagonist and ally to The Three Stooges.
Filmography
277 credits
Fuelin' Around
Movie • 1949
General
The Cameraman
Movie • 1928
Man in Tight Bathing Suit (uncredited)
Hopping Bells
Movie • 1920
Road to Hollywood
Movie • 1947
A Film Director
The Sound of Laughter
Movie • 1963
Adolph (Airplane Passenger) / Football Coach
Feet of Mud
Movie • 1924
Football Coach
Murder at Midnight
Movie • 1931
Detective Eating Peanuts
Reformatory
Movie • 1938
Cook Howard
One Shivery Night
Movie • 1950
Boss
Punchy Cowpunchers
Movie • 1950
General
Mutiny on the Body
Movie • 1939
Mr. Gibson
Good Morning, Eve!
Movie • 1934
Emperor Nero
His Wedding Scare
Movie • 1943
The Minister
Night Editor
Movie • 1946
Fat Man in Library (Uncredited)
The Iceman's Ball
Movie • 1932
Officer Schmaltz
The Bride's Mistake
Movie • 1931
Mr. Grimm
A Close Shave
Movie • 1929
George Billings
Way Out West
Movie • 1920
The Beach Club
Movie • 1928
Mr. Kronk
The Bicycle Flirt
Movie • 1928
Henry Harper - The Boyfriend
Smith's Restaurant
Movie • 1928
Big Diner
Mystic Mush
Movie • 1920
Motorboat Mamas
Movie • 1928
Charley Whalen
Hubby's Weekend Trip
Movie • 1928
Charley Whalen
Don't Get Jealous
Movie • 1929
Wilbur Warner
Slippery Silks
Movie • 1936
Morgan Morgan (uncredited)
Wee Wee Monsieur
Movie • 1938
Simitz - Arab Chief (uncredited)
Dizzy Doctors
Movie • 1937
Dr. Harry Arms (uncredited)
Back to the Woods
Movie • 1937
Governor (uncredited)
Hot Stuff
Movie • 1956
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Mutts to You
Movie • 1938
Mr. Stutz, Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Plain Clothes
Movie • 1925
A Crook
Secret Command
Movie • 1944
Shipyard Worker (uncredited)
Hot Sports
Movie • 1929
The Bees' Buzz
Movie • 1929
Jim - Homer's Pal
Three Little Sew and Sews
Movie • 1939
Party Guest (uncredited)
Malice in the Palace
Movie • 1949
Hassan Ben Sober
Sing a Song of Six Pants
Movie • 1947
Police Detective
The Extra Girl
Movie • 1923
Aaron Applejohn
Pardon My Berth Marks
Movie • 1940
Newspaper City Editor
Tars and Stripes
Movie • 1935
Chief Gunners Mate Richard Mack
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Movie • 1940
Jim, a policeman
From Nurse to Worse
Movie • 1940
Dr. D. Lerious (uncredited)
A Maid Made Mad
Movie • 1943
Blonde's Boyfriend
Sappy Birthday
Movie • 1942
Neighbor Policeman
Rip, Sew and Stitch
Movie • 1953
Detective Sharpe (Archive footage) (uncredited)
Rockin' in the Rockies
Movie • 1945
Stanton (uncredited)
Income Tax Sappy
Movie • 1954
IRS Agent # 1 (uncredited)
Musty Musketeers
Movie • 1954
King Cole
Pals and Gals
Movie • 1954
Doctor (uncredited)
Calling Hubby's Bluff
Movie • 1929
Vernon Vance
Pink Pajamas
Movie • 1929
Vernon Vance
Bedlam in Paradise
Movie • 1955
I. Fleecem (archive footage)
Knutzy Knights
Movie • 1954
King Arthur (uncredited)
Golf
Movie • 1922
The suitor
A Prodigal Bridegroom
Movie • 1926
Gertie's Father in Flashback
Masked Mamas
Movie • 1926
Jim Denton
East of the Water Plug
Movie • 1924
Jim's Rival - the Villain
Hurry, Doctor!
Movie • 1925
Police Officer Bill Trapps
Her Actor Friend
Movie • 1926
Actor in Play
Should Husbands Marry?
Movie • 1947
Hugh's Boss
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Movie • 1927
George Stevens
Little Robinson Corkscrew
Movie • 1924
Horace Horlick
Flirty Four-Flushers
Movie • 1926
Bill Brown
Cured in the Excitement
Movie • 1927
Hector Strong
For Sale, a Bungalow
Movie • 1927
2nd Real Estate Broker
San Antonio Rose
Movie • 1941
Worthington
Dream House
Movie • 1932
Director Von Schnauble
Tassels in the Air
Movie • 1938
Building superintendent (uncredited)
Half Shot Shooters
Movie • 1936
Man in Restaurant
Crash Goes the Hash
Movie • 1944
Fuller Bull
No Dough Boys
Movie • 1944
Hugo (Nazi spy)
Booby Dupes
Movie • 1945
Captain
Matri-Phony
Movie • 1942
Emperor Octopus Grabus
Idle Roomers
Movie • 1944
Mr. Leander
Three Pests in a Mess
Movie • 1945
Philip Black
Half-Wits Holiday
Movie • 1947
Prof. Quackenbush
A Bird in the Head
Movie • 1946
Prof. Panzer
Beer Barrel Polecats
Movie • 1946
Warden
Mummy's Dummies
Movie • 1948
King Rootentooten
Heavenly Daze
Movie • 1948
I. Fleecem
Hokus Pokus
Movie • 1949
Insurance Adjuster
Pest Man Wins
Movie • 1951
Mr. Philander
Studio Stoops
Movie • 1950
Police Captain Casey
Three Arabian Nuts
Movie • 1951
Mr. Bradley
Scrambled Brains
Movie • 1951
Nora's Father
Listen Judge
Movie • 1952
Judge Henderson
A Missed Fortune
Movie • 1952
Hotel Manager
Booty and the Beast
Movie • 1953
Night Watchman
Isn't Love Cuckoo?
Movie • 1925
Auto Agency Manager
Of Cash and Hash
Movie • 1955
Police Capt. Mullins (archive footage)
Flagpole Jitters
Movie • 1956
Insurance Adjustor (archive footage)
Rumpus in the Harem
Movie • 1956
Hassan Ben Sober (archive footage)
Knight Duty
Movie • 1933
The Cop
Hooks and Jabs
Movie • 1933
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
Movie • 1926
Jim Stone
The Best Man
Movie • 1928
Groom
Tied for Life
Movie • 1933
Angry motorist
The Hitchhiker
Movie • 1933
Adolph
The Shadow
Movie • 1937
Dutch Schultz
Nutty But Nice
Movie • 1940
Dr. Walters (uncredited)
Back from the Front
Movie • 1943
Lt. Dungen (uncredited)
Sock-a-Bye Baby
Movie • 1942
1st Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
They Stooge to Conga
Movie • 1943
Hans - the Nazi (uncredited)
Cactus Makes Perfect
Movie • 1942
Heavyset Prospector (uncredited)
I Don't Remember
Movie • 1935
Oscar Glick
The Fainting Lover
Movie • 1931
Dr. Dudley Schmidt
Hoboken to Hollywood
Movie • 1926
Mr. Pinkney
Special Delivery
Movie • 1922
Beach Pajamas
Movie • 1931
Idiots Deluxe
Movie • 1945
Judge (uncredited)
Shivering Sherlocks
Movie • 1948
Police Capt. Mullins
Busy Buddies
Movie • 1944
Hotcakes Customer (uncredited)
Higher Than a Kite
Movie • 1943
Marshall Boering (uncredited)
An Ache in Every Stake
Movie • 1941
Poindexter Lawrence (uncredited)
Crazy House
Movie • 1930
Dr. E.D. Smith (last name spelled 'J-O-N-E-S')
Fiddlesticks
Movie • 1927
Prof. Von Tempo / Junk dealer
Soldier Man
Movie • 1926
The Prime Minister
Saturday Afternoon
Movie • 1926
Steve Smith
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Movie • 1932
Speaker
A Blonde's Revenge
Movie • 1926
Tim Hayes
The Sheepish Wolf
Movie • 1948
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Movie • 1948
Dragnet Patrol
Movie • 1931
Cookie
The Freshman's Finish
Movie • 1931
A Doggone Mixup
Movie • 1938
Mr. Tilson
Sappy Pappy
Movie • 1942
Jealous Husband
The Hollywood Kid
Movie • 1924
Claude Climax - Director
Midnight Daddies
Movie • 1930
Baron von Twiddlebaum - Designer
A College Racket
Movie • 1931
Please
Movie • 1933
Elmer Smoot
Adventure in Washington
Movie • 1941
Senator in gym
Dutiful But Dumb
Movie • 1941
Mr. Wilson (uncredited)
Smith's Army Life
Movie • 1928
The Colonel
Guns a Poppin!
Movie • 1957
Judge (archive footage)
The Old Barn
Movie • 1929
Pete Monroe - Hotel Proprietor
The All-American Kickback
Movie • 1931
Football Coach
The Pride of Pikeville
Movie • 1927
The Train Conductor
Saved by the Belle
Movie • 1939
Mike (uncredited)
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Movie • 1939
Sheriff (uncredited)
A Ducking They Did Go
Movie • 1939
Vegetarian (uncredited)
Even as IOU
Movie • 1942
Motorist (uncredited)
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Movie • 1941
Senator (uncredited)
Pardon My Terror
Movie • 1946
Jonas Morton
Out West
Movie • 1947
Doctor (uncredited)
Black Oxfords
Movie • 1924
Sandy Haig
His Marriage Wow
Movie • 1925
A Pessimist - Professor McGlumm
A Sea Dog's Tale
Movie • 1926
Jo Jo
Three Smart Saps
Movie • 1942
(uncredited)
Bachelor Daze
Movie • 1944
Onlooker in doorway
Hail the Woman
Movie • 1921
Joe Hurd
Easy Living
Movie • 1937
First Partner (uncredited)
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Movie • 1925
Gasoline Customer
Bull and Sand
Movie • 1924
Joe Archer
Soul of the Beast
Movie • 1923
The Boob
An Auto Nut
Movie • 1919
The Lawyer's Clerk alias the Doctor (uncredited)
The Awful Sleuth
Movie • 1951
Al Keefer
Clunked on the Corner
Movie • 1929
Jip Bennett
The Big Flash
Movie • 1932
Klaus
Thanks for the Memory
Movie • 1938
Refuse Man (uncredited)
Picking Peaches
Movie • 1924
The Store Manager
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Movie • 1939
Fat Man at Party (uncredited)
Hot Dogs
Movie • 1920
Dangerous Business
Movie • 1946
Fat Man (uncredited)
Start Cheering
Movie • 1938
Pops
Only Angels Have Wings
Movie • 1939
Ship's Captain
Stanley and Livingstone
Movie • 1939
Newspaperman in Office
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Tired Feet
Movie • 1933
Sue My Lawyer
Movie • 1938
Judge
The Gum Riot
Movie • 1920
Naughty Nurses
Movie • 1920
Wall Street Blues
Movie • 1924
Mal A. Mute - the Loan Shark's Partner
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Movie • 1941
Watkins
Broken Bubbles
Movie • 1920
The Lion and the Souse
Movie • 1924
Mr. Niblick Van Hoosit
The Fire Chaser
Movie • 1954
J. Peabody Knott
Waiting in the Lurch
Movie • 1949
J. Peabody Knott
The Good Bad Egg
Movie • 1947
Rest Home Manager (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom
Movie • 1947
Sally's Father (uncredited)
Home on the Rage
Movie • 1938
Mr. Lent (uncredited)
Money Squawks
Movie • 1940
Night Watchman
Mr. Noisy
Movie • 1946
Slim - Baseball Spectator
Society Mugs
Movie • 1946
Lord Wafflebottom
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Movie • 1940
Hotel Doorman
Nothing But Pleasure
Movie • 1940
Bus Rider with Child
Cold Turkey
Movie • 1940
J.T. Caldwell
The Taming of the Snood
Movie • 1940
Man on Street
The Heckler
Movie • 1940
Baseball Spectator with Hotdog
Three Little Pirates
Movie • 1946
Governor
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
Movie • 2006
(archive footage)
Squareheads of the Round Table
Movie • 1948
King Arthur
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1949
Guard (uncredited)
The Glass Key
Movie • 1942
Bartender Serving Beers (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Expressman (uncredited)
Innocently Guilty
Movie • 1950
Mr. Bass
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie • 1961
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lucky Stars
Movie • 1925
Hiram Healy
His Marriage Mix-up
Movie • 1935
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Movie • 1943
William Ruff
Defective Detectives
Movie • 1944
Rodney Boodle
Snooper Service
Movie • 1945
Having Wonderful Crime
Movie • 1945
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1924
Billy Durham
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Movie • 1939
Lustig
The Golf Nut
Movie • 1927
The Club President
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Train Conductor (uncredited)
A Blitz on the Fritz
Movie • 1943
Spy chief
Artist's Muddles
Movie • 1933
Luckenbach, the artist
To Heir Is Human
Movie • 1944
Board Chairman
House of Errors
Movie • 1942
White
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)
His First Flame
Movie • 1927
Amos McCarthy
It Had to Be You
Movie • 1947
Man in Drugstore (uncredited)
San Diego I Love You
Movie • 1944
Mr. Fitzmaurice (uncredited)
He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Chef
The Lady in Question
Movie • 1940
Gendarme (uncredited)
There He Goes
Movie • 1925
Jerry the Bull
Riders of the Purple Cows
Movie • 1924
Mike Maverick
When Spirits Move
Movie • 1920
Juvenile Court
Movie • 1938
Mr. Schultz (uncredited)
The Tooth Will Out
Movie • 1951
Dr. Keefer--professor of dentistry
Lone Star Moonlight
Movie • 1946
Sheriff
Hollywood Trouble
Movie • 1935
Mr. Mahoney
I'll Never Heil Again
Movie • 1941
Mr. Ixnay (uncredited)
Fiddlers Three
Movie • 1948
King Cole
How High Is Up?
Movie • 1940
Mr. Blake (uncredited)
San Francisco
Movie • 1936
Fat Man (uncredited)
Texas Cyclone
Movie • 1932
Hefty
Share the Wealth
Movie • 1936
Mayor
Remember When?
Movie • 1925
Mack - Circus Owner
Murder in Greenwich Village
Movie • 1937
Ship's Officer
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Movie • 1924
Football Opponent
Girls Will Be Boys
Movie • 1931
Million Dollar Legs
Movie • 1932
Secretary of Agriculture (uncredited)
Gents of Leisure
Movie • 1931
Time Out for Trouble
Movie • 1938
Bakery Man
The Mind Needer
Movie • 1938
Mr. Ryan
His Unlucky Night
Movie • 1928
Homer Brown
What a Trip
Movie • 1929
Howling Hollywood
Movie • 1929
Smith's Landlord
Movie • 1926
The Cop
Smith's Cook
Movie • 1927
Pete - the Motor Cop
True to Life
Movie • 1943
Man (uncredited)
A Star Is Shorn
Movie • 1939
Producer
The Golden Age of Comedy
Movie • 1957
archive footage
Address Unknown
Movie • 1944
Nazi Party Member (uncredited)
The Good Humor Man
Movie • 1950
Man in Park (uncredited)
Manhattan Melodrama
Movie • 1934
Otto (uncredited)
Daring Danger
Movie • 1932
Bartender Pee Wee
The Riding Tornado
Movie • 1932
Hefty - Bartender
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Movie • 1939
The Baron (uncredited)
The Nickel Snatcher
Movie • 1920
All Night Long
Movie • 1924
the Rival
Boobs in the Wood
Movie • 1925
Il rivale - Big Bill Reardon
J-U-N-K
Movie • 1920
The Junk Dealer
Teacher's Pest
Movie • 1939
Christmas Tree Buyer
His Bridal Fright
Movie • 1940
Doorman
A Harem Hero
Movie • 1920
Oriental Potentate
Calling All Doctors
Movie • 1937
Sneezing Man
Many Sappy Returns
Movie • 1938
Concerned Pedestrian
A One Mama Man
Movie • 1927
The Suitor
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie • 1949
Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Hollywood Halfbacks
Movie • 1931
The Campus Carmen
Movie • 1928
Extra
Mummy's Nightmare
Movie • 1922
Delivery Driver
Kansas City Kitty
Movie • 1944
Repo man from the A-1 Piano Co.
So You Won't Squawk
Movie • 1941
The bartender
Have Courage
Movie • 1926
Gendarme
You're the One
Movie • 1941
Zeno Springs Hotel Guest
The Hollywood Handicap
Movie • 1932
So Long Mr. Chumps
Movie • 1941
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Ladies Must Eat
Movie • 1929
George
The Harvey Girls
Movie • 1946
Engineer (uncredited)
Golf Widows
Movie • 1928
Ernest Ward
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie • 2020
Claude Climax - Director, archive footage
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Santa Claus (uncredited)