Clyde Cook

AKA: Clyde Wilford Cook, Clyde Cooke
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1891-12-15

Port Macquarie, Australia

Biography

Crew Roles

Broadway Arizona
Cinematography
The Misfit
Director
Dick Turpin
Producer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {97}

'Sugar' Steve

1928-09-16 6.9

The Docks of New York

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dancer

1932-09-01 6

Blondie of the Follies

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Pinkey Fripp

1930-07-01 0

The Dude Wrangler

In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie. ...
Genre :Western

Barney Cole

1946-11-23 6.5

The Verdict

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Bates

1941-09-09 6.5

Ladies in Retirement

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lea ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Constable Sacker

1938-11-25 6.6

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Mystery

Steve, the Engineer

1936-10-15 0

Tugboat Princess

When her parents are drowned at sea, "Princess" Judy is adopted by a soft-hearted old sea captain, Captain Zack, and brought to live on his tugboat. ...
Genre :

Constable Alf

1937-01-22 5.9

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation. ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Cocky

1929-01-06 0

Captain Lash

Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's li ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1931-06-15 6

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified. ...
Genre :Comedy

English Cabbie

1953-05-24 5.1

Loose in London

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action, Adventure

Ted, First Mate of the Congo Queen

1942-12-12 5.8

White Cargo

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-count ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Camp Cook

1926-02-21 5.1

Wandering Papas

A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into ...
Genre :Comedy

Blkodgett

1929-07-14 0

Masquerade

The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Constable Sacker

1938-03-18 5.7

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Hearse Driver

1928-11-04 7

Interference

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

The Butler

1926-03-25 6

Wife Tamers

Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their neighborhood. He takes her out to dinner, but to his d ...
Genre :Comedy

Ginger Gaffney

1943-08-04 6.5

The Man from Down Under

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama, War

The Henpecked Husband

1924-03-22 0

The Misfit

THE MISFIT - starring Clyde Cook, with Blanche Payson and Joe Roberts. A rarely-seen silent comedy short. Henpecked hubby Clyde totes groceries and paints floors for his wifey, escaping at last...by j ...
Genre :

Luke aka 'Perfesser' McIntosh

1928-12-20 8.2

The Spieler

After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival. ...
Genre :Crime

Ricky

1933-01-31 0

West of Singapore

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him. ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Jones

1930-06-01 3

Women Everywhere

Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces in Morocco fighting against the rule of the Frenc ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Music

Charlie "Limo" Lewis

1930-02-15 3.7

Officer O'Brien

Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Taxi Boy

1932-08-13 1

What Price Taxi

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde. ...
Genre :Comedy

Oakie

1935-10-13 6.392

Barbary Coast

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in lov ...
Genre :Romance, Western, Drama

Homer

1927-02-24 6.15

White Gold

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Tex

1926-10-14 6.409

The Winning of Barbara Worth

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

Max Langley

1929-11-03 5

Jazz Heaven

A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill Collins

1927-11-05 0

Good Time Charley

Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the advances of Hartwell, her manager. Years later, his ...
Genre :Drama

Pete 'Skeets' Smith

1930-08-01 5.3

Wings of Adventure

Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency landing in Mexico and find themselves in the hands of La Panthera, a notorious bandit who wishes to ove ...
Genre :Adventure

James Bullard / Horace Bullard

1928-03-28 0

Domestic Troubles

Twin brothers James and Horace Bullard have opposite personalities. James, a fun dandy, marries a club-woman. Horace, introvert and prudish, marries a butterfly. A lost film. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam

1930-11-09 6.5

Sunny

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

1953-07-02 5.671

The Maze

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenl ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Larson - Building Engineer

1931-12-12 2.3

The Secret Witness

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery

Perkins (uncredited)

1936-06-25 7.2

The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession. ...
Genre :Drama

Attendant

1939-03-17 6.676

The Little Princess

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War. ...
Genre :Family, Drama, Comedy

Constable Hawkins

1939-03-29 6.1

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an el ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Traffic Control Constable

1939-07-12 6.143

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Soldier

1939-12-24 6

The Light That Failed

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind. ...
Genre :Drama

1920-09-30 0

Don't Tickle

Clyde gets in hot water with his Amazon wife and her tough sailor brother, culminating in a wrestling match and escape by airplane. (MoMA) ...
Genre :Comedy

1920-05-05 0

Kiss Me Quick

Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chitling

1933-02-28 4.8

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Genre :Drama

British Guard

1939-10-24 6.2

Pack Up Your Troubles

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines. ...
Genre :War, Comedy

Blubber - the Ship's Cook

1938-05-27 4.7

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Tarjack (uncredited)

1950-02-17 6.8

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping h ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Cockney Bartender

1948-10-26 0

To the Victor

An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer. ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Josef

1931-05-02 3.4

Daybreak

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy. ...
Genre :Drama

Sergeant Murphy

1937-06-26 6.2

Another Dawn

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself i ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Hawkins

1934-07-19 6

Shock

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Claudia, the Blushing Groom / the baby

1926-01-16 4

What's the World Coming To?

Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wif ...
Genre :Comedy

Flashlight

1929-08-31 0

In the Headlines

A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murderer. ...
Genre :Crime

A Burglar

1925-10-03 4.5

Moonlight and Noses

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars -- if they go to a cemetery and bring back the body ...
Genre :Comedy

Circus

1928-07-10 0

Celebrity

Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Elmer Peck

1928-05-26 0

Five and Ten Cent Annie

Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the uncle's valet, Briggs (William Demarest). until such tim ...
Genre :Comedy

Hans

1927-09-09 6.2

Barbed Wire

During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love. ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Cockney Soldier (uncredited)

1941-09-27 7.193

Sergeant York

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes on ...
Genre :War, Drama

Porter

1931-05-16 4.2

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns ...
Genre :Drama

Hercules

1932-09-16 2.5

Strange Innertube

After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

One of the Taxi Boys

1933-06-23 0

Thundering Taxis

Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything. ...
Genre :

Walter Boggs

1940-08-10 7.2

The Sea Hawk

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures. ...
Genre :Adventure, History, Romance

Claude (uncredited)

1940-08-30 6.4

Dance, Girl, Dance

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Jenkins

1940-01-23 7

Wolf of New York

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector. ...
Genre :Drama

Bott

1930-07-10 6.7

The Dawn Patrol

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Action

1922-12-24 0

High and Dry

Comic antics with Clyde Cook and buddy Edgar Kennedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tubbs

1929-05-16 3

A Dangerous Woman

The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Alf

1938-11-14 5.3

Storm Over Bengal

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodat ...
Genre :Adventure

Yukon

1942-03-20 4.2

Klondike Fury

In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclai ...
Genre :Drama

The Guide

1921-05-11 0

The Guide

Clyde Cook working as a guide at a snowy mountain resort. ...
Genre :

Grumio

1929-10-26 5.5

The Taming of the Shrew

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father wil ...
Genre :Comedy

Pete

1929-03-03 5

Strong Boy

"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But whe ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Joe Babbitt

1928-10-27 0

Beware of Bachelors

A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decides to h ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-12-13 6

Starvation Blues

It stars Clyde Cook working with Stan Laurel. Stan helped write this and fans of L&H will recognize the situation: a street musician in the snow. Yes, it's the set-up from BELOW ZERO. It's all about t ...
Genre :Comedy

Jennings (uncredited)

1944-05-11 6.545

The White Cliffs of Dover

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Skit

1942-04-15 0

The Gay Nineties

Songs from the 1890s presented in a musical short. ...
Genre :

Bertie

1926-06-27 0

Miss Nobody

The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man. ...
Genre :Drama

1926-06-26 0

He Forgot to Remember

Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer. The husband sees this and takes off after Clyde who runs into an army recruiting station ...
Genre :Comedy

Flash Patron

1935-05-09 6.737

The Informer

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British aut ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Cyril D'Armond

1925-11-08 5.4

Should Sailors Marry?

Genre :

Botts

1928-01-14 1

Beware of Married Men

A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seei ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Clyde Jones

1928-05-12 0

Pay as You Enter

Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1927-06-01 0

Simple Sis

Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for romance, supported by Clyde Cook as a shy suitor ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Pancho Mendoza

1927-05-03 0

The Climbers

The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to b ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sandy McTavish

1927-09-24 7

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of con man Mark Krisel, is j ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Actor in Army Scene (uncredited)

1947-06-07 5.8

So You Want to Be in Pictures

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pipe Major Sneath

1937-07-30 6.625

Wee Willie Winkie

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Photographer (uncredited)

1941-11-14 7.131

Suspicion

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Herbert

1943-03-03 5.727

The Mysterious Doctor

The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

John Lancaster

1928-09-28 3.25

Through the Breakers

Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation ...
Genre :Drama

Truck Driver

1942-05-12 6.7

This Above All

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice ag ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Mr. Brown

1924-11-26 0

So This Is Marriage?

After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconciliations. Beth is frivolous and extravagant; Peter is domineering and ambitious and has difficulty pay ...
Genre :Drama

Joe

1935-06-28 4.5

Calm Yourself

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Skeeter McKinnon

1927-08-20 0

The Bush Leaguer

"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on the team. A ...
Genre :Comedy

Oklahoma Red

1927-04-20 0

The Brute

Martin Sondes is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton, whose chief means of making money is befuddling cowpuncher's brains with liquor and then chea ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance, Western

Clown (uncredited)

1924-12-22 7.6

He Who Gets Slapped

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Peter Rocks Jr.

1921-04-10 0

Skirts

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the ...
Genre :Comedy

Fred Leach

1951-01-20 0

Pride of Maryland

Frankie, a young jockey with a new style of riding that brings him acclaim, is barred from the track when he starts betting on himself. Since he's been donating his winnings to an old flame and her fa ...
Genre :

Stooge (uncredited)

1944-05-05 5.3

Follow the Boys

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, War