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Ted Okuda (born 1953) is an American non-fiction author in film, television, and entertainment subjects. He has many books and magazine features to his credit, under his own name and in collaboration with others.

His highly regarded book The Columbia Comedy Shorts (1986, with Edward Watz) is an in-depth account of Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
' short-subject department, detailing the production of two-reel comedies starring The Three Stooges, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
, Andy Clyde
Andy Clyde

Andrew "Andy" Clyde was a Scotland movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic....
, Charley Chase
Charley Chase

Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
, and Schilling and Lane, among many others, over a period of 25 years.






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Ted Okuda (born 1953) is an American non-fiction author in film, television, and entertainment subjects. He has many books and magazine features to his credit, under his own name and in collaboration with others.

His highly regarded book The Columbia Comedy Shorts (1986, with Edward Watz) is an in-depth account of Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
' short-subject department, detailing the production of two-reel comedies starring The Three Stooges, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
, Andy Clyde
Andy Clyde

Andrew "Andy" Clyde was a Scotland movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic....
, Charley Chase
Charley Chase

Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
, and Schilling and Lane, among many others, over a period of 25 years. He also co-authored, with film historian James L. Neibaur
James L. Neibaur

James L. Neibaur is an American History of film and author.His most noted book is The Jerry Lewis Films: An Analytical Filmography of the Innovative Comic ....
, the definitive look at The Jerry Lewis Films (1995).

Okuda's recent works include Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows (2007, with Mark Yurkiw), The Soundies
Soundies

Soundies were an early version of the music video: three-minute musical films, produced in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood between 1940 and 1946....
 Book: A Revised and Expanded Guide
(2007, with Scott MacGillivray
Scott MacGillivray

Scott MacGillivray is an American non-fiction author specializing in motion picture history.His book Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward, published in 1998, chronicles the later films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy....
), Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 at Keystone and Essanay
(2005, with David Maska), and The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television (2004, with Jack Mulqueen). He also contributed chapters to the books Science Fiction America (edited by David J. Hogan) and Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film (edited by Gary and Susan Svehla), and wrote the foreword for MacGillivray's Castle Films
Castle Films

Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films....
: A Hobbyist's Guide
. His articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in such publications as Filmfax, Classic Images, Cult Movies, Classic Film Collector, The Big Reel, and Movie Collectors World.

He has also appeared on television, usually with popular movie host and Stooge expert Rich Koz
Rich Koz

Rich Koz is a Chicago area actor and broadcaster best known as horror-movie host Svengoolie. Out of costume, he is also the knowledgeable host of the syndicated Three Stooges Stooge-a-Palooza program....
.