Bill Byrge, the actor who portrayed Bobby in the Ernest movies, has died at 92, his cousin shared on social media. Byrge played a supporting role in the schlocky yet beloved comedy franchise, which ...

While he worked at a library in Nashville, he played Bobby in four of those films and on a Saturday morning kids show.

"Billy just had this way about him and you obviously noticed him automatically no matter where he was at," Bill Byrge's ...

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee ...

Character actor and comedian Bill Byrge, best known for his role as Ernest's neighbor Bobby in Ernest films, has passed away at the age of 92.

The classic character Ernest P. Worrell, played by Jim Varney, is a kindly but daffy Southern handyman who constantly launches into long speeches to the consternation of his silent and long ...

Within the “Ernest” franchise, Varney played the title character Ernest P. Worrell, which he conceived along with advertiser Carden & Cherry. John R. Cherry III directed most of the “Ernest ...

Life could be pretty if there wasn't someone like Ernest P. Worrell on this planet. In this movie he helps to escape an evil troll out of his grave. That's the start of the end for the world.

Carden and Cherry was also behind the Ernest P. Worrell series of commercials, in which actor Jim Varney's Ernest character similarly endorsed a variety of products in advertisements. Eventually ...

The rubber-faced Varney made his debut as Ernest P. Worrell, a dim-witted Southerner with an unseen neighbor named Vern, in local commercials for a Nashville advertising agency starting in 1980.