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Westcott Bailey Clarke, also known as Westcott Clarke, W.B. Clarke, Westcott B. Clarke and W.B. Westcott, was an American actor who worked in the theater and in film. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he grew up in nearby Bayonne where he began his acting career in a local repertory theatre company in the early 1900s. He toured North America in Brown of Harvard in 1908-1909, and then worked as an itinerant actor in a variety of theatre troupes in the 1910s, including George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris's company. He starred in Captain Kidd Junior on Broadway in 1917-1918, and by 1920 was working in Los Angeles as a stage actor. He worked as silent film actor in Hollywood during the 1920s.