Wilkie Bard (born William August Smith; 19 March 1874 – 5 May 1944) was a popular British vaudeville and music hall entertainer and recording artist at the beginning of the 20th century.

[4] Bard had a long career in pantomime[2] and introduced tongue twisters such as "She sells seashells by the seashore", based on a song he performed in the show "Dick Whittington and His Cat" in Drury Lane in 1908.

[citation needed] In 1919 he went to America where he performed in vaudeville,[5] making his debut at the Palace Theatre on 20 October that year; the show was not well received.

[8] In 1923, Bard appeared with Jack Pearl in tests for Lee de Forest's sound-on-film process Phonofilm.

[10] Bard died in 1944 at the age of 70 in Buckinghamshire following a coronary thrombosis[11] and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery, on the main north/south path.