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Bill Byrge dead at 92: Star of Ernest movies passes away as cousin pays emotional tribute
His cousin Sharon Chapman heartbrokenly announced the news on her Facebook page this Thursday. She did not specify a cause of death.
Born in 1932, Byrge had a financially strapped upbringing as the United States grappled with the worst economic crisis in its history. Byrge's first film was the first Ernest movie Dr. Otto And The Riddle Of The Gloom Beam, a 1985 release in which he played a gas station attendant. The classic character Ernest P. Worrell, played by Jim Varney, is a kindly but daffy handyman who constantly launches into long speeches to the consternation of his silent and long-suffering neighbor Vern.
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