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His parents were actors, Bennett Kilburn Mercer and Nola Margaret Miller (stage name Nola St. Claire), but Jack decided to pursue his love of art. He got a job as an inbetweener (rookie animator) at the Fleischer studio. Dave Fleischer happened to hear him singing the Popeye theme song in a funny voice, and asked Jack to try voicing one cartoon. He later became a writer at the Fleischer studio.

Herbert O. Yardley was born on 13 April 1889 in Worthington, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Rendezvous (1935). He died on 7 August 1958 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.