Jim Varney

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James Albert Varney Jr. (June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000) was an American actor, comedian, and writer.

Ernest P. Worrell, who appeared in numerous television commercial commercial campaigns and films for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award, is best known for his portrayal as Ernest P. Worrell, who appeared in numerous television commercial ad campaigns and films.

He earned a reputation for his appearance in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and as the voice of Slinky Dog in Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999).

Early life

Varney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He demonstrated the ability to memorize long poems and significant portions of the book's content, which he used to entertain family and friends as an infant. Varney's mother would turn on cartoons for him to watch as he was a boy. Varney's mother discovered that he was quickly imitating the cartoon characters, so she started him in children's theater when he was eight years old. Varney began pursuing theater as a student at Lafayette High School (class of 1968) in Lexington, winning state titles in drama competitions as a youth.

He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in a local theater production at the age of 15, and by 17, he was performing professionally in nightclubs and coffee houses. Varney studied Shakespeare at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and appeared in an Opryland folk show in its first year of operation in the 1970s. He portrayed Thelma Beeler, a former teacher who was a mentor in his aspirations to be an actor. Varney, an actor at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky, when he was 24, was an actor. The theater was located in an Old West-themed village, and the audience would tour the village where apprentices would play townsfolk before the show. Varney and the company performed in the outdoor theater to audiences of only a few dozen people. He amused the young apprentices by turning knives into trees. Fire on the Mountain, Blithe Spirit, Boeing 707, and an original musical. "You [Ponzini] wouldn't make it down Main Street without the townsfolk offering you a crewcut," he once told a long-haired apprentice, John Lino Ponzini.

Personal life

Varney married twice, first to Jacqueline Drew (1977-1983) and then to Jane Varney (1988–1991). Both marriages ended in divorce, though he was friends with his ex-wife Jane until his death; she became Varney's spokeswoman and accompanied him in Pixar's 1999 film Toy Story 2. Children were not born in either union.

Justin Lloyd of Varney published The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney, which Verney doesn't even know). Keeper of the Clown was released by director Cherry the same year.

As of 2022, directors David Pagano and Ernest Goes to Camp cast member Daniel Butler are planning to broadcast The Importance of Being Ernest.

Varney was a natural mountain dulcimer and appeared on the instrument on the very last episode of The Chevy Chase Show.

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Career

Varney had a successful acting career before he came to fame as Ernest. Varney appeared on the television show Johnny Cash and Friends as a regular cast member in 1976. He appeared on the faux late-night talk show Fernwood 2 Night as a regular guest. Varney appeared in Operation Petticoat's television version from 1977 to 1979 as Seaman "Gloom" Broom. He was a cast member of the infamous television flop Pink Lady and Jeff just prior to his time as Ernest. Varney appeared on the television show Alice in 1978 as Milo Skinner.

Varney has appeared on television as a stand-up comedian. His forte was character comedy: he'd impersonate many characters with complex backstories, some of which would make their way into his later films and television commercials.

Ernest P. Worrell, who'd address the camera as if speaking to a friend, is Varney's most popular character, using his trademarked catchphrase, "KnoWhutImean, Vern." The first commercial starring the character appeared at Beech Bend Park, an amusement park near Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1980. The character was licensed in various countries and was often used by dairy factories to sell milk products. For example, Ernest was featured in numerous advertisements; Purity Dairies, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina; and Oakhurst Dairy in Maine ran similar advertisements, but with the dairy name changed.

Varney created a new character, Sgt. Glory, a bemoan drill instructor who yelpened cows of the client dairy into the production of higher milk. Sgt. Sgt. was posted in a different part of the world. Glory's house was displayed on a date that was so heavily decorated with the sponsor and marketing specialty items that it was essentially devoid of any other decor. The Sgt. In an advertisement for Pruett's Food Town, in which he drilled the checkout clerks on proper conduct, he also drilled the checkout clerks on proper behavior: "Bread on top." Bread on top. With a look of fear and saying, "You're not smilin" approaching one of them at the end of the commercial. The checkout bagger makes a very tense and pushed smile.

Varney has appeared in a number of commercials in the New Orleans area (and throughout the Gulf South) as a spokesperson for natural gas utilities. In one, he is seen kneeling under Vern's desk under a lamp hanging from the ceiling, saying, "Natural gas, Vern," says the writer. "The hot, fast, cheap; kinda like your first wife, Vern, you know, the pretty one! Vern then knocks the lamp into Ernest's head, knocking him to the ground. Those same television commercials were also on televisions in the St. Louis area for Laclede Gas Company in the mid-1980s and a metro Detroit area for Michigan Consolidated Gas Company. Ernest was featured in a new television commercial for Laclede Gas, "Heat pump, schmeat pump."

Varney has appeared in many Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores advertisements since the 1980s. These were broadcast on Oklahoma television. He produced commercials for automobile dealerships around the country, most notable Cerritos Auto Square in Cerritos, California, Tysons Toyota in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and Audubon Chrysler in Henderson, Kentucky.

During the 1980s, Varney portrayed Ernest in a string of commercials for Convenient Food Mart. Varney co-hosted the syndicated Pop! festival in 1982. With singer Tom T. Hall, Goes the Country. The show had just undergone a major upgrade and was scheduled to end shortly afterward. In other advertisements, he portrayed "Auntie Nelda" as a motherly lady urging one to do what was right (in this case, buy whatever product was being sold). This individual, as well as the "Ernest" character, appeared in Leadco Aluminum Siding commercials in Mississippi and Louisiana for a few years before becoming a regular in Ernest films. Varney has appeared in on-air advertisements for several markets in which he portrayed Ernest, as well as their news and weather personalities.

Varney reprised his role as Ernest for Blake's Lotaburger, a New Mexico fast food chain. Ernest would normally be trying to get into Vern's house to see what Vern was eating in these stores to see what Vern was eating. Ernest will be locked out after a lengthy description of what delectable morsel Vern had, but outside he'd continue to yell.

Ernest's character became well-known, and it was the basis of a short-lived TV show Hey Vern, It's Ernest! (1988) and a series of films from the 1980s and 1990s.

Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) earned $23.5 million at the US box office, on a $3.5 million production budget, and remained in the top ten for the first three weeks after being released. Despite being nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst New Star, Varney's Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for Hey Vern, it's Ernest! Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), Ernest Goes to Jail (1990), Ernest Scared Stupid (1991), and Ernest Rides Again (1993). Ernest Goes to School (1994), Slam Dunk Ernest (1995), Ernest Goes to Africa (1997), and Ernest in the Army (1998), which followed Ernest Rides Again's financial woes.

Ernest was the centerpiece of Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot theme park. The Ernest figure in Epcot's preshow was used as an example of a "lovable but not the brightest person on the planet" person. Ernest Goes to... series starred him in several smaller films for John R. Cherry III, such as Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album; Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam; and the direct-to-video film Your World as I See It, which featured him in a number of characters and accents.

The Ernest Film Festival (Greatest Hits Volume 1) was released on VHS in 1986. In 1992, the first Hits Volume 2 was introduced. On DVD box sets, Mill Creek Entertainment released these classic television commercials on October 31, 2006. Image Entertainment re-released them on June 5, 2012 as part of Ernest's Wacky Adventures: Volume 1.

Varney portrayed Chad Everett's younger brother Evan Earp in Stephen J. Cannell's comedy-drama, high-action television series The Rousters, about Wyatt Earp, a family of bounty hunters/carnival bouncers from 1983 to 1984. Varney, Evan Earp, played a con man/mechanical genius "genius" who was often in comical trouble, with those around him preparing to lynch him. Despite the fact that the series was promising, it fell from the first season because it was poorly timed (four episodes per month) against the number one prime-time television show for the first six years, The Love Boat.

Varney can be seen in Hank Williams Jr.'s film "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight," in which he is briefly seen by a young lady casually riding a bull pulled on a rope, and then in a swimming pool with two young women.

Varney and Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson co-hosted HBO's New Year's Eve special in 1985. Varney appeared in The Beverly Hillbillies in 1993; played Rex, a carnival employee/associate of Dennis Quaid; and played Rudy James, the accident-prone entertainer/human torch ("safety guy/human torch") in the movie Snowboard Academy. He appeared in the 1995 action film The Expert as a weapons dealer named Snake.

Varney also contributed to Slinky Dog in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story series, and he reprised his role in Toy Story 2 in the Toy Story series (he was replaced by his close friend Blake Clark in Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 after his death in 2000). Varney appeared in a few episodes of the late 1990s television series "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby," including "Cookie" Farnsworth from Atlantis: The Lost Empire's "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby," the character of Walter Cooder in the Duckman sequel "Atlantis: Milo's Return), as well as "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby" by Steven Barr, as well as well as the character in the film "You's ("You's film "You's film "You's" ("You's, Baby" ("You's"), the character from Atlantis ("You's ("Br"), the Lost Empire (Steven, The Simpsons "The Lost Empire's ("You" (Steven" sequel Atlantis "You's ("You's, "You's ("You'shim" by "You's.

Varney appeared in a short film called 100 Proof, which attracted acclaim and abusive father, for which he received mainly critical praise. In addition to being a hero in Existo, he appeared in Blood, Friends, and Money, a low-budget horror film. During the filming of Treehouse Hostage, he played an escaped prisoner who was tortured by some fifth graders in a treehouse.

Billy Bob Thornton's Daddy and Them, in which he played Uncle Hazel, who had been jailed for murder, was one of Varney's last films. Kelly Preston and Andy Griffith were co-stars on the film "British Independence." The Bibleman Genesis series Bibleman Jr. Volume 1 & 2 as himself was the final guest appearance. Varney appeared in three films, The Misadventures of Bubba II, and Bubba Goes Hunting, in which he played himself and taught young children important safety laws regarding hunting and firearms. He outlined the rules with the help of his bumbling and accident-prone cousin Bubba (also played by Varney) and Billy Bob, Bubba's nephew. The videos were released as part of Buckmasters' Young Bucks Club's membership pack.

In an interview, one of his final writings was writing a screenplay about the legendary rivalry between the Hatfields and the McCoys, including a tale that his grandfather hunted squirrels with the Hatfields. Varney is also accused of attempting to get more dramatic roles before his death, attempting to get outside Ernest's typecast.

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