Jack Rube Clifford

Jack Rube Clifford was an American actor and singer who worked in vaudeville, theater, film, and radio. Born in Elmira, New York, he grew up in Atlanta and attended the University of Washington. Onstage he became known for rustic, unsophisticated characters, and he adopted the stage name Jack Rube Clifford as a vaudeville headliner on the Orpheum Circuit. In 1922 he played Hiram Dexter in the musical comedy Glory, a performance praised by the New York Times, and he later appeared on Broadway in The Jeweled Tree and The Racket. His film work included Long Pants (1926), Skippy (1931), King of the Pecos (1936), and Rockin' in the Rockies (1945). He also had recurring radio roles on Hi-Jinks and The Gilmore Circus, and his radio sheriff character was later cited as an inspiration for the cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn. He died in 1974.