Birthday: June 15, 2049
Gangling, Kentucky-born actor Jim Varney cut his professional teeth at Virginia's Barter Theater, a summer-stock concern specializing in vintage American melodramas. At his funniest when playing it totally straight, Varney was hired as a comedy-ensemble member of the 1976 TV variety series The Johnny Cash Show. He went on to play Evel Knievel-takeoff Virgil Sims in Norman ...more- 1988
- Daytime Emmy
- Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series
- Hey, Vern! It's Ernest (TV Series)
- win
- 2001
- Daddy & Them
- Hazel
- 2001
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth
- 1999
- Toy Story 2
- Slinky Dog
- 1999
- Existo
- Marcel Horowitz
- 1998
- Ernest in the Army
- Ernest P. Worrell
- 1986
- Dr. Otto & the Riddle of the Gloom Beam
- Screenwriter















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