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Clifford Charles "Cliff" Arquette (December 27,〔According to the State of California. ''California Death Index, 1940-1997.'' Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/caldeaths〕 1905 – September 23, 1974) was an American actor and comedian, famous for his TV role as “Charley Weaver.” ==Early life and career== Cliff Arquette was born on December 27, 1905, in Toledo, Ohio, as the son of Winifred (née Clark) and Charles Augustus Arquette, a vaudevillian. The eventual patriarch of the Arquette show business family, which became famous because of him, Arquette was the father of actor Lewis Arquette and the grandfather of actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond, and David Arquette. In his early career, Cliff was a nightclub pianist, later joining the Henry Halstead orchestra in 1923. In the late 1930s, Arquette invented the modern rubber theatrical prosthetic mask, flexible enough to allow changing facial expressions, and porous enough to allow air to reach the actor's skin. Arquette had been a busy, yet not nationally known, performer in radio, theatre, and motion pictures until 1956, when he retired from show business. At one time, he was credited with performing in 13 different daily radio shows at different stations in the Chicago market, getting from one studio to the other by way of motorboats along the Chicago River through its downtown. One such radio series he performed on was ''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok.'' 〔(Old Time Radio Westerns )〕 Arquette and Dave Willock had their own radio show, ''Dave and Charley,'' in the early 1950s as well as a television show by the same name that was on the air for three months. It was when Arquette performed on the shows that he created, and inaugurated his performances as, his eventual trademark character of Charley Weaver.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cliff Arquette )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dave and Charley )〕 The story that Arquette later told about his big break was that one night, in the late 1950s. he was watching ''The Tonight Show.'' Host Jack Paar happened to ask the rhetorical question, "Whatever became of Cliff Arquette?" That startled Arquette so much that "I almost dropped my Scotch!" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cliff Arquette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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