Career
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Prouty was a vaudeville performer before becoming a film actor. Mostly appearing in comedies, he occasionally performed a serious character role, for instance a small part as an oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937). After a significant career in silent films, a large part of Prouty"s later career was the Jones Family film series.
They were 17 low-budget 20th Century Fox family comedies between 1936 and 1940, along with Spring Byington as Mistress
Jones, for such directors as Malcolm Saint Clair and Frank R. Strayer. Prouty appeared in all but the final entry.
