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Clyde Wilfred Cook is a Actor and Producer Australien born on 15 december 1891 at Port Macquarie (Australie)

Clyde Wilfred Cook

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Birth name Clyde Wilford Cook
Nationality Australie
Birth 15 december 1891 at Port Macquarie (Australie)
Death 13 august 1984 (at 92 years) at Carpinteria (USA)

Clyde Cook (16 December 1891 – 13 August 1984) was an Australian born actor whose career spanned the silent film era, talkies and television.

He was known as the "Rubber Comedian" because of his ability to bend himself into almost any position. He was appearing at a London music hall when he was seen by film producer William Fox.

Biography

Né en Australie et immigré aux États-Unis, Clyde Cook est remarqué pour ses talents de contorsionniste et débute dans le cinéma lorsqu'il est engagé par la Fox Film Corporation pour jouer dans une série de comédies burlesques réalisées par John G. Blystone et Slim Summerville. Ces films sortiront en France sous le nom du personnage principal qu'il interprète : Dudule. Sa manière de jouer le fait surnommer "The Rubber Comedian" et ses premiers films mettent en avant ses capacités physiques. Mais rapidement Clyde Cook rejoint le Staff des Studios Hal Roach où il joue la comédie notamment dans Wandering Papas de Stan Laurel aux côtés d'Oliver Hardy.


En 1926, réussissant à imposer ses talents d'acteur, il quitte le monde de la comédie burlesque et apparaît dans de long métrages, alternant rôles de premier plan et rôles de soutien, aussi bien dans les comédies romantiques très prisées à l'époque, que dans les drames ou les Westerns. On le retrouve ainsi à l'affiche de Les Damnés de l'océan (The Docks of New York) de Josef von Sternberg ou La Mégère apprivoisée (The Taming of the Shrew) de Sam Taylor.


Avec l'avènement du cinéma parlant, même s'il poursuit sa carrière d'acteur, les rôles qui lui sont confiés sont de plus en plus secondaires. Comme pour beaucoup d'acteurs de muet, la transition est difficile et il revient participer à des comédies plus légères. Il finit sa carrière avec des figurations.


Clyde Cook possède cependant une étoile sur le Walk of Fame au 6531 Hollywood Blvd.


En 1984, Clyde Cook décède à l'âge de 92 ans à Carpinteria en Californie.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Clyde Wilfred Cook (72 films)

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Actor

Donovan's Reef, 1h49
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour
Roles un officier australien
Rating66% 3.346543.346543.346543.346543.34654
The film is a morality play in the guise of an action/comedy. It deals harshly (though not in an obvious way) with issues of racial bigotry, corporate connivance and greed, American beliefs of societal "superiority" and hypocrisy (i.e., the Boston shipping company considers carrying rum to be immoral, so they euphemistically refer to it as "West Indies goods"). Otherwise, Donovan's Reef is a light-hearted movie made in a period conforming, formulaic and sweetly naive manner (see "Critical Reception", below).
The Maze
The Maze (1953)
, 1h20
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Michael Pate, Hillary Brooke, Lilian Bond, Robin Hughes
Rating58% 2.9001152.9001152.9001152.9001152.900115
A Scotsman named Gerald MacTeam (Richard Carlson) abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty (Veronica Hurst) after receiving word of his uncle's death. He inherits a mysterious castle in the Scottish highlands and moves there to live with the castle servants. Kitty refuses to accept the broken engagement and travels with her aunt (Katherine Emery) to the castle. When they arrive, they discover that Gerald has suddenly aged and his manner has changed significantly.
Loose in London, 1h2
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Walter Kingsford
Roles English Cabbie
Rating62% 3.143713.143713.143713.143713.14371
Sach receives notice that a dying British earl is his long-lost relative. He travels there with the rest of the gang after exchanging his free first-class ticket for four economy class tickets. Meanwhile, Louie, who is on board to say goodbye, gets locked in a closet and becomes a stowaway. When the boys arrive in London they are treated with disdain from the earl's other relatives, who are secretly plotting to kill the earl. Sach livens up the earl by telling him to eat ice cream instead of his medicine, and generally making him laugh. The earl's health begins to improve and he decides to make Sach is sole heir. The other relatives decide they need to kill off the earl immediately, but are foiled by the boys. Unfortunately just before the earl is to sign the paperwork making Sach the heir, his lawyer arrives and informs them that he made an error and Sach isn't really his relative.
When Willie Comes Marching Home, 1h22
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Children's films
Actors Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Evelyn Varden, Jimmy Lydon
Roles Tarjack (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.199353.199353.199353.199353.19935
William "Bill" Kluggs (Dan Dailey) is the first in his hometown of Punxatawney, West Virginia, to enlist in the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor, making his father Herman (William Demarest), mother Gertrude (Evelyn Varden) and girlfriend Marge Fettles (Colleen Townsend) proud. The whole town sees him off. Willie tries to become a pilot but washes out, although he proves to be so proficient at aerial gunnery that, rather than being sent to Europe to fight, he is made an instructor and assigned to a base near his hometown. After two years in the same place, he is branded a coward by the townsfolk, even though he continually requests a transfer into combat.
To the Victor, 1h40
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Eduardo Ciannelli, Anthony Caruso, Konstantin Shayne
Roles Cockney Bartender
Rating59% 2.956592.956592.956592.956592.95659
Peu après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et sa démobilisation, l'Américain Paul Taggart s'installe à Paris où il trafique au marché noir. Il fait la connaissance de Christine Lund Lestrac, dont le mari est en prison pour avoir collaboré avec les Allemands. Ils tombent amoureux...
The Verdict, 1h26
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris, Rosalind Ivan, Paul Cavanagh
Roles Barney Cole
Rating71% 3.592173.592173.592173.592173.59217
George Edward Grodman, a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard in 1890, makes a mistake in an investigation that causes the execution of an innocent man. He takes the blame for his error, is dismissed from his position as superintendent and replaced by the obnoxious and gloating John Buckley.
The White Cliffs of Dover, 2h6
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Gladys Cooper
Roles Jennings (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4945653.4945653.4945653.4945653.494565
At the height of World War II, Lady Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) is a nurse in a British hospital, awaiting the arrival of some wounded men. She thinks back to how she came to Britain many years before.
The Man from Down Under, 1h42
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films
Actors Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Donna Reed, Clyde Wilfred Cook, Stephen McNally
Roles Ginger Gaffney
Rating60% 3.001893.001893.001893.001893.00189
After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a destitute Belgian orphan who fights a larger boy. He feeds the child, whom he names "Nipper", and the boy's younger sister Mary. When he receives orders to go home, he gets his friend Ginger Gaffney (Clyde Cook) to smuggle the pair aboard their ship. Then, realizing he knows nothing about raising children, he proposes to his singer girlfriend Aggie Dawlins (Binnie Barnes). She accepts. However, he gets drunk and is nearly arrested; in the confusion, he forgets and sails home without her.
This Above All, 1h58
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Philip Merivale
Roles Truck Driver
Rating65% 3.2969353.2969353.2969353.2969353.296935
Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave.
Counter-Espionage, 1h13
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Forrest Tucker
Rating64% 3.24063.24063.24063.24063.2406
In the midst of World War II, Harvey Leeds, working as secretary for the highly reputed British criminologist Sir Stafford Hart in London, is lobbying for a legislature ordering the immediate arrest of all foreign agents staioned in Britain. Harvey is engaged to Sir Stafford’s daughter, Pamela, and is visiting the Hart mansion. He is about to leave the mansion to be with Pamela, who works at an air raid shelter, when he happens upon a briefcase in the foyer. He looks through the briefcase, that belongs to Sir Stafford’s assistant, Kent Wells, before heading out in the night. he doesn’t get far though, but is knocked out by air raid warden Anton Schugg, and thrown into the back of the warden’s ambulance.
White Cargo, 1h28
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Henry O'Neill, Reginald Owen
Roles Ted, First Mate of the Congo Queen
Rating60% 3.000463.000463.000463.000463.00046
Arriving by seaplane to inspect an isolated, but thriving rubber plantation in the African jungle during World War II, Worthing (Richard Ainley) reminisces about the old days, when conditions were much harsher. The film then flashes back to 1910.
Suspicion
Suspicion (1941)
, 1h39
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Roles Photographer (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.647983.647983.647983.647983.64798
Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll).
Ladies in Retirement, 1h31
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom
Roles Bates
Rating70% 3.54123.54123.54123.54123.5412
Ellen Creed, a proud spinster fallen on hard times, has been housekeeper/companion to her old friend Miss Leonora Fiske, a wealthy retiree who in her youth had been a chorus girl "of easy virtue", for about two years. Lucy is a maid who has also been there for some time. Ellen gets a letter one day about her two sisters, both of whom are a bit peculiar. The letter says that unless she can get them under control, the police will be called and they will be evicted from their flat for outlandish behavior. Ellen asks Miss Fiske if her sisters can visit and she says yes.