Andy Clyde

Born: March 25, 1892, Blairgowris, Scotland
Died: May 18, 1967 (age 75), Los Angeles, California

Andy Clyde was a popular, prolific Scottish-born stage, motion picture, and television actor of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Specialized in memorable comedic roles. Brother of actor David Clyde and actress Jean Clyde.

1. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Connie Mack comic. Clyde's mastery of makeup allowed him tremendous versatility. He could play everything from grubby young guttersnipes to old crackpot scientists.

• Fact or Myth?

2. Clyde's long series of Columbia Pictures comedies began in 1934 and continued until 1956. Except for one group, he outlasted every comedian on the Columbia payroll. Who outlasted him?

• The Three Stooges
• Laurel and Hardy
• Abbott and Costello

3. As a sidekick for Hoplalong Cassidy, what was his character’s name?

• California Carlson
• Windy Thompson
• Tex Catchem

4. Working as Whip Wilson’s sidekick, what was his character’s name?

• Winks McGee
• Putt Cleghorn
• Durango

5. In what 1940 B-Western did he play Tex Crawford?

6. In this 1955 Western, Andy plays Whipsaw Ellis. The movie stars John Payne. What is the movie?

7. He appears as George MacMichael on this 1950’s TV series. What was the TV series?

• Rawhide
• Rifleman
• The Real McCoys

8. In this remake of two previous shorts (and also uses footage from both), Andy, the new Professor of Psychiatry at an All-Girl College, gets involved in the chase of a bandit, wearing a nightshirt, who has been robbing the campus dormitories. He corners him but, in the mêlée, the co-eds mistake him for the crook. What is the movie?

9. In this comedy Judy (Judy Canova) and her grandpa (Andy Clyde) run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile. What is the movie?

• Carolina in the Morning
• Carolina Cannonball
• Coming Home

10. Clyde was married to a former Mack Sennett bathing beauty, Elsie Tarron, and was the brother of actor David Clyde and actress Jean Clyde.

• Fact or Myth?

11. Where is Andy Clyde buried?

• Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, California
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
• Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California

Answers

1. Myth. It was as a Mack Sennett comic.
2. The Three Stooges
3. California Carlson
4. Winks McGee
5. Cherokee Strip
6. The Road to Denver
7. The Real McCoys
8. Pardon My Nightshirt
9. Carolina Cannonball
10. Fact
11. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
    Plot: Whispering Pines, L-810