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

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Bill Byrge, who showed up as the quiet but feisty Bobby on a kids TV show and in four of the goofy Ernest comedies that starred Jim Varney, has died. He was 86.

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

Character actor Bill Byrge, best known for appearing alongside Jim Varney in the Ernest films, has passed away. According Byrge's cousin, Sharon Chapman (via Facebook), Byrge died on Thursday, Jan. 9.

He was the ‘Bobby’ character in several ‘Ernest’ movies with Jim Varney. I always teased him ... In 1986, he starred in a series of commercials with Gailard Sartain for a Nashville ...

"He was a beautiful soul who made people laugh without even trying," she wrote, acknowledging the impact of his Bobby character starring opposite Jim Varney. "I always teased him of being a 'star ...

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.

Worrell, played by Jim Varney, is a kindly but daffy Southern ... as well as featuring in various local commercials. During that same period, after appearing in Dr. Otto And The Riddle Of The ...

The Employee of the Year Award was presented by Jim ... Pam Varney, accounting; Lori Davies, operations; Judy Lizotte, trust; Mary Ann Brown, consumer lending; Diane McManus, commercial lending ...

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