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Clyde Bruckman Overview:

Director, Clyde Bruckman, was born on Sep 20, 1894 in San Bernardino, CA. Bruckman died at the age of 60 on Jan 4, 1955 in Hollywood, CA and was laid to rest in Fairhaven Memorial Park Cemetery in Santa Ana, Orange County, CA.

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Clyde Bruckman Facts
His life could serve as a lesson on the evils of alcohol. In his prime in the 1920s he was inarguably one of the best writers/gag men/directors in the business. His keen sense of comedy allowed him to easily shift between diverse assignments for Buster Keaton (co-directing The General), Laurel & Hardy and Harold Lloyd without missing a beat. But by the early 1930s his chronic alcoholism made him unreliable. He'd go on benders during a production and fail to show up on sets. Harold Lloyd attempted to keep him in the business during the 1930s, graciously giving him directorial credit on Feet First (1930) and Movie Crazy (1932) despite his questionable input into these productions. His behavior finally made him all but unemployable in Hollywood and ironically in his last paying studio job he contributed gags to a Joan Davis comedy, She Gets Her Man (Universal, 1945) that resulted in Lloyd successfully suing him for appropriation of his property. In desperation, Bruckman had lifted material from Movie Crazy and the lawsuit resulted in Bruckman being blackballed. He managed scant intermittent work in live TV in Los Angeles with Keaton, but he grew increasingly despondent and destitute. He committed suicide in 1955 in a phone booth on Santa Monica Boulevard with a handgun he'd borrowed from Keaton.
Is portrayed by Gunther Berghofer in The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)
Clyde Bruckman's life and death were the inspiration for one of the episodes of "The X-Files" (1993). Peter Boyle played the fictional character named Clyde Bruckman in a Darin Morgan penned episode called "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose."
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