Clyde Cook


Actor

About

Also Known As
Clyde Wilford Cook, The Kangaroo Boy, Clyde Cooke
Birth Place
Australia
Born
December 16, 1891
Died
August 13, 1984

Biography

Clyde Cook was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Cook kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924), the action picture "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1926) with Ronald Colman and "The Bush Leaguer" (1927). He also appeared in "Barbed Wire" (1927), "Good Time Charley" (1927) and "Celebrity" (1928). His film career continued throu...

Biography

Clyde Cook was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Cook kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924), the action picture "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1926) with Ronald Colman and "The Bush Leaguer" (1927). He also appeared in "Barbed Wire" (1927), "Good Time Charley" (1927) and "Celebrity" (1928). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like the Marilyn Miller adaptation "Sunny" (1930), the Richard Barthelmess drama "The Dawn Patrol" (1930) and the drama "Oliver Twist" (1933) with Dickie Moore. He also appeared in the Miriam Hopkins drama "Barbary Coast" (1935). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the musical "The Little Princess" (1939) with Shirley Temple Black, "The Sea Hawk" (1940) with Errol Flynn and the Ida Lupino drama "Ladies in Retirement" (1941). He also appeared in the Edmund Lowe drama "Klondike Fury" (1942) and "White Cargo" (1942). Cook more recently acted in "Loose in London" (1953) with Leo Gorcey. Cook passed away in August 1984 at the age of 93.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Drunk
Rogue's March (1953)
Fisherman
Loose in London (1953)
Taxi driver
The Maze (1953)
Cab driver
Pride of Maryland (1951)
Fred Leach
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Tarjack
Sword in the Desert (1949)
Sentry
To the Victor (1948)
Cockney bartender
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947)
Hotel clerk
The Verdict (1946)
Barney Cole
To Each His Own (1946)
Mr. Harkett
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Jennings
Follow the Boys (1944)
Stooge
The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Herbert
The Man from Down Under (1943)
Ginger Gaffney
Forever and a Day (1943)
This Above All (1942)
Driver
Klondike Fury (1942)
Yukon
White Cargo (1942)
Ted
Counter-Espionage (1942)
Huckster
Sergeant York (1941)
Cockney soldier
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Bates
Suspicion (1941)
Photographer
Unexpected Uncle (1941)
Band singer
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Walter Boggs
The Light That Failed (1940)
Soldier
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)
British guard
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
Constable Hawkins
The Little Princess (1939)
Attendant
Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
Constable Sacker
Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
Sandwich man
Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Constable Sacker
Storm over Bengal (1938)
Alf
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Constable Sacker
Kidnapped (1938)
Cook
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Alf
Another Dawn (1937)
Sergeant Murphy
Love Under Fire (1937)
Bert
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Pipe Major Sneath
Lancer Spy (1937)
Orderly
Souls at Sea (1937)
Hendry
Tugboat Princess (1936)
Steve
The White Angel (1936)
Soldier
Barbary Coast (1935)
Oakie
Calm Yourself (1935)
Joe
The Informer (1935)
Man at Madame Betty's
The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
Drunk
Shock (1934)
Hawkins
Oliver Twist (1933)
Chitling
West of Singapore (1933)
Ricky
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Dancer
Daybreak (1931)
Josef
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
Porter
The Secret Witness (1931)
Larson
Sunny (1930)
Sam
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Bott
Officer O'Brien (1930)
Limo Lewis
Wings of Adventure (1930)
Skeets Smith
The Dude Wrangler (1930)
Pinkey Fripp
Women Everywhere (1930)
Sam Jones
Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Grumio
Jazz Heaven (1929)
Max Langley
In the Headlines (1929)
Flashlight
Strong Boy (1929)
Pete
Captain Lash (1929)
Cocky
Masquerade (1929)
Blodgett
A Dangerous Woman (1929)
Tubbs
The Spieler (1928)
Luke
Pay As You Enter (1928)
Clyde Jones
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
Elmer Peck
Beware of Married Men (1928)
Botts
Celebrity (1928)
Circus
Domestic Troubles (1928)
James Bullard/Horace Bullard
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
Joe Babbitt
Through the Breakers (1928)
John Lancaster
The Docks of New York (1928)
Sugar Steve
Barbed Wire (1927)
Hans
White Gold (1927)
Homer
The Bush Leaguer (1927)
Skeeter McKinnon
A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
Sandy MacTavish
The Climbers (1927)
Pancho Mendoza
Simple Sis (1927)
Jerry O'Grady
Good Time Charley (1927)
Bill Collins
The Brute (1927)
Oklahoma Red
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
Tex
Miss Nobody (1926)
Bertie
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
So This Is Marriage (1924)
Mr. Brown
Skirts (1921)
Peter Rocks, Jr.

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Golden Trail (1920)
Camera
The Man Who Had Everything (1920)
Camera
The Deceiver (1920)
Camera
Soldiers of Fortune (1919)
Assistant Camera
All Wrong (1919)
Camera
Love's Pay Day (1918)
Camera
Southern Justice (1917)
Camera
Into the Primitive (1916)
Camera

Cast (Short)

So You Want to Be in Pictures (1947)
Thundering Taxis (1933)
Strange Innertube (1932)
What Price Taxi (1932)

Life Events

1915

Film acting debut in a Keystone comedy

Bibliography