Paul McCullough
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Paul Johnston McCullough (March 27, 1883 – March 25, 1936) was an American actor and comedian who was one half of the comedy duo Clark and McCullough, as well as fellow comedian Bobby Clark.
Early life and career
McCullough, who was born in Springfield, Ohio, met his future partner Bobby Clark in elementary school. Both the two became friends and attended tumbling lessons at a local YMCA together. As they decided to pursue a career as a comedic pair, their childhood friendship developed into an adult partnership. They began their careers in minstrel shows in the early 1900s, billing themselves as "Clark and McCullough." The two performed in circuses from 1906 to 1912 before deciding on vainceville in 1912. Clark and McCullough were forced to join the burlesque circuit in 1916 due to the White Rats strike of 1916. The pair will produce some of their most well known sketches during their burlesque period.
Clark was the most popular, motor-mouthed jokester in their set, while McCullough was the more still straight man. The group made mainstream success in Irving Berlin's Broadway show Music Box Revue in 1922. They went on to appear in The Ramblers (1930), a Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle. Clark and McCullough met in mid-1928 in Hollywood, where they then signed with Fox Films Corporation for a $8,000 per week. The studio hoped that the duo's stage presence would grow to film and that they would be cast in a series of two-reel comedy shorts titled The Clark & McCullough Comedies. McCullough's presence was severely limited to a supporting role in several of Clark's films, although Clark's antics provided the bulk of the humor. Clark's character names were usually determined by their jobs in the films: when photographers, such as in Alibi Bye Clark, was dubbed "cook"; when lawyers, Clark was "Blackstone," etc. Both critics and audiences alike responded to the shorts in the July 1931 issue of Picture Play magazine. The Clark and McCullough Tragedies were mockingly referred to around the Fox studio lot. Clark and McCullough were shot in early 1929 after filming fourteen shorts.
The pair first signed with RKO Radio Pictures in 1930. Over the next five years, the RKO will produce twenty-two comedy shorts. The duo's comedy, as with their Fox shorts, did not adapt well to film's medium and was poorly received by critics and audiences alike. RKO tried to rectify this by recruiting big name directors and increasing budgets, but the shorts remained to be panned. Sam White, the co-producer of three of Clark and McCullough's RKO shorts, later said that the pair's film career stalled because "Bobby came across as annoying" on film. Clark was one of those comedians who had to be seen live. He was flat in pictures. Alibi Bye Bye (1935), Clark and McCullough's last film for RKO, was Alibi Bye (1935).