Clyde Wilfred Cook (16 December 1891 – 13 August 1984) was an Australian-born vaudevillian who went on to perform in Hollywood and whose career spanned the silent film era, talkies and television.

He was already a skilled acrobat and dancer before he first appeared on stage in 1901 and within a few years he had developed a successful reputation as an all-around comic entertainer.

[2][3] In 1906, J. C. Williamson placed Cook under contract and he worked with the company until about 1911, when he departed for the United Kingdom, determined to try his luck in the London music hall scene.

[7] Then in 1919, at the height of the Spanish flu epidemic, Cook brought an action against J. C. Williamson over the impact on performers' contracts, caused by their closure of theatres.

One such vignette, in Wandering Papas (1926), had Cook crossing a stream on foot, by raising his shoes to his knees and striding across the water.

[10] Like many character players, Cook continued to play small parts into the 1950s, including television (as a London newspaper vendor in "A Ghost for Scotland Yard", a 1953 episode of The Adventures of Superman)[11] and the Joe McDoakes movie comedies.