Cameron was best known for his vaudeville performances, first as part of the Kammerer & Howland musical comedy act, and later as a principal comedian on the Keith-Albee circuit.

[3] As a teenager, Kammerer worked in a hat factory and trained as a gymnast at the Providence Boys’ Club.

[5] After the divorce, the children lived with Kammerer’s grandmother, Victorine, and uncle on a dairy farm in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

[7] The duo joined Fred Homan's Musical Stock Company at the Scenic Temple on Matthewson Street in 1911.

They toured North America on the Loew’s circuit for four years, and were known for comedic songs, clever banter, acrobatic dancing, and for Kammerer’s impersonations of Ford Sterling, Charlie Chaplin, and Bert Williams.

In 1914, Kammerer joined the White Rats of America, a labor union organized by theatre employees in an effort to destabilize the Vaudeville Managers Association.

The cast included Joe Yule and Nell Carter, who welcomed their only child, Mickey Rooney, while on the same tour.

He appeared in Sliding Billy Watson's World of Frolics, Eddie Dowling's Hello Miss Radio, and Fred Clark's Let’s Go.

Joe King disappears from the story after making an unsuccessful offer of marriage to Kitty Darling, played by Helen Morgan.

He performed in the role of Gonzorgo in Babes in Toyland for two seasons, 1930 and 1931, with the Aborn Opera Company and Singer's Midgets, at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway.

[21] Toward the end of the 1930s, Cameron launched his “drunk” nightclub act, There Is a Tavern in the Town, at the Old Fashioned Cafe in Boston.