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'''Andrew Allan Clyde''' (March 25, 1892 – May 18, 1967)
==Acting career==
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Clyde also kept busy as a character actor in feature films. He almost always appeared as a supporting actor: for example, he played a sad provincial constable in the [[Katharine Hepburn]] film ''[[The Little Minister (1934 film)|The Little Minister]]'' and [[Charles Coburn]]'s drinking buddy in ''[[The Green Years (film)|The Green Years]]''. He did play a couple of leads for low-budget, independent producers: the comedy ''[[Red Lights Ahead]]'' (1935) and the western ''Sundown Riders'' (1944).
By the 1940s, Clyde had been gravitating toward outdoor and [[Western (genre)|western]] adventures. Clyde is well remembered for his roles as a comic [[sidekick]]. He was most often associated with [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]] in the ''[[Hopalong Cassidy]]'' series, as "California Carlson" (a role he also played in the ''[[Hopalong Cassidy (radio program)|Hopalong Cassidy radio program]]''. He stayed with the Cassidy feature films until the series lapsed in 1948. Clyde also worked on the Hopalong Cassidy "record readers" issued by [[Capitol Records]] in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/Hoppy.htm#capitolrecordreaders|title=Alan Livingston and The Capitol Record Readers|last=Hall|first=Roger|access-date=April 2, 2009|archive-date=August 31, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831003956/http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/Hoppy.htm#capitolrecordreaders|url-status=dead}}</ref> Clyde's home studio, Columbia, cast Clyde prominently in feature-length musical westerns of the mid-1940s.
In 1949 Clyde became the comic sidekick to [[Monogram Pictures]]' newest cowboy star [[Whip Wilson]]. They worked together through 1951. In 1955 Clyde signed with [[Republic Pictures]] for two features, a [[Judy Canova]] comedy and a [[John Payne (actor)|John Payne]] western.
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*''Bow-Wow'' (1922) as The City Slicker
*''[[Picking Peaches]]'' as Near-sighted Customer
* Hollywood Kid (1924)--Studio Spy
*''[[The Girl from Everywhere]]'' (1927) as Publicity Man
*''[[The Branded Man (1928 film)|The Branded Man]]'' (1928) as Jenkins
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*''[[Pirates on Horseback]]'' (1941) as California Carlson
*''[[Wide Open Town]]'' (1941) as California Carlson
*''[[Stick to Your Guns (film)|Stick to Your Guns]]'' (1941) as California
*''[[Riders of the Timberline]]'' (1941) as California Carlson
*''[[Twilight on the Trail]]'' (1941) as California Carlson
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*''[[Roughly Speaking (film)|Roughly Speaking]]'' (1945) as Matt (uncredited)
*''[[Song of the Prairie]]'' (1945) as Uncle And Tyler
*''[[Throw a Saddle on a Star]]''
*''[[The Green Years (film)|The Green Years]]'' (1946) as Saddler Boag
*''[[That Texas Jamboree]]'' (1946) as Andy Warren
*''[[Plainsman and the Lady]]'' (1946) as Durango
*''[[The Devil's Playground (1946 film)|The Devil's Playground]]''
*''[[Unexpected Guest (film)|Unexpected Guest]]'' (1947) as California Carlson
*''[[Dangerous Venture]]'' (1947) as California Carlson
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