What is Clyde Bruckman?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Clyde Bruckman | image = Clyde_Bruckman_in_1923.png | caption = Bruckman in 1923 | birth_name = Clyde Adolf Bruckman | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|6|30|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[San Bernardino, California]], US | death_date = {{death date and age|1955|1|4|1894|9|20}} | death_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], US | othername = | yearsactive = | spouse = Lola Margaret Bruckman <br />(1916–1931; her death)<br />[[Gladys Bruckman]]<br />(m. 1932) | occupation = Comedy writer, director }} '''Clyde Adolf Bruckman''' (June 30, 1894<ref name=Dissolve /><ref name=Foote>{{cite book|last1=Foote|first1=Lisle|title=Buster Keaton's Crew: The Team Behind His Silent Films|date=October 31, 2014 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786496839|pages=131–142|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xl-QBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 |access-date=January 7, 2016|language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|131}}{{spaced ndash}}January 4, 1955) was an American writer and director of comedy films during the [[Silent film|silent era]] as well as the early sound era of cinema. Bruckman worked with comedians like [[Buster Keaton]], [[Monty Banks]], [[W. C. Fields]], [[Laurel and Hardy]], [[The Three Stooges]], [[Abbott and Costello]], and [[Harold Lloyd]]. Hollywood writer [[Kenneth Anger]] thinks Bruckman was one of the most important figures in the history of American screen comedy.<ref>Anger, Kenneth. ''[[Hollywood Babylon|Hollywood Babylon ll]]'', Plume reprint, 1984, NY, p. 218.</ref> ==Early life== Clyde Adolf Bruckman was born on June 30, 1894, in San Bernardino, California.<ref name=Dissolve /><ref name=Foote />{{Rp|131}} In 1911, Bruckman's father Rudolph was in a car accident that left him with headaches and brain damage. Rudolph killed himself in 1912.<ref name=Dissolve /> Bruckman was a writer for the sports pages of the ''[[San Bernardino Sun]]'' in the spring of 1912.<ref name=Dissolve /> In 1914, he moved to Los Angeles and got a job as a writer for