Glen Vernon

Glen Vernon was an American actor from Fall River, Massachusetts, who began as a child in his father's vaudeville song-and-dance act and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He first appeared as a dancing boy in George Abbott's musical Best Foot Forward, then took a leading part in the road company of Junior Miss in 1942. In 1943 RKO Radio Pictures recruited him to play a sensitive Russian soldier in Days of Glory (1944), signed him to a contract, and renamed him Glenn Vernon. He went on to featured roles in dramas, comedies, and musicals, including Bedlam (1946) and The Woman on the Beach (1947), and had his only leading role as a jazz clarinetist who could not read music in Ding Dong Williams. After leaving RKO in 1947, he returned to Los Angeles theater, freelanced for independent studios, and later took small parts in film and television, including Perry Mason. He died in 1999.