Jim Varney

James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as appearing in films and numerous television commercial advertising campaigns. He played Jed Clampett in a film adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and also covered a song for the film titled "Hot Rod Lincoln". and performed the voice of Slinky Dog in the first two films of the Toy Story franchise (1995–1999). He died at age 50 of lung cancer on February 10, 2000, leaving two posthumous releases, Daddy and Them and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

15 June 1949

Born on the same birth date (15 June 1949): Dusty Baker • Russell Hitchcock • Simon Callow

Born on the same birth day (15 June): Andy Pettitte • Archduke Ernest of Austria • Beverley Whitfield • Christian Rahn • David Rose (songwriter) • Dusty Baker • Jim Belushi • John Paintsil • Julie Hagerty • Lance Parrish • Laura Imbruglia • Lisa del Giocondo • Mario Gosselin (ice hockey) • Mohammad-Ali Rajai • Polly Draper • Satya Pal Jain • Tom Adair

Born in the same month (June 1949): Andy Scott (guitarist) • Betty Jackson • Don Baylor • Elizabeth Gloster • Emanuel Ax • Fredric Brandt • Gordon Bray • Joan Clos • John Illsley • John Wetton • Lindsay Wagner • Lionel Richie • Luís Filipe Vieira • Marc Tardif • Mark B. Cohen • Meryl Streep • Simon Callow • Ulla Schmidt