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Clyde Wilford Cook

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Clyde Wilford Cook

Birth
Australia
Death
13 Aug 1984 (aged 86–87)
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
Burial
Compton, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
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Actor. Silent film comic. Acrobat. His birth name is Clyde Wilford Cook, his nickname "The Kangaroo Boy". Alternate names were Clyde Cooke and the Original Keystone Kops. He was married twice. First to Alice Draper (? - 1938) and then to Constance ?. He had one child with his first wife.

In Wandering Papas (1926) aka Enough to Do (UK: short version) he plays a cook for a railroad construction crew. He goes hunting and tries to catch fish using flypaper and succeeds in catching a skunk by the tail. He uses gunpowder instead of baking powder for flapjacks. Wandering Papas was directed by Stan Laurel.


Actor. Silent film comic. Acrobat. His birth name is Clyde Wilford Cook, his nickname "The Kangaroo Boy". Alternate names were Clyde Cooke and the Original Keystone Kops. He was married twice. First to Alice Draper (? - 1938) and then to Constance ?. He had one child with his first wife.

In Wandering Papas (1926) aka Enough to Do (UK: short version) he plays a cook for a railroad construction crew. He goes hunting and tries to catch fish using flypaper and succeeds in catching a skunk by the tail. He uses gunpowder instead of baking powder for flapjacks. Wandering Papas was directed by Stan Laurel.



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