Frederic Leonard Clark
Sign | Pisces |
Born | Mar 19, 1914 Lincoln, CA |
Died | Dec 5, 1968 Santa Monica, CA |
Age | Died at 54 |
Fred Clark | |
Job | Actor |
Top Roles | Sam Levitt, Frank Hugo, Richard Donovan, Bellows, defense attorney, Lt. Cmdr. Clinton T. Nash |
Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Musical, Film Adaptation, Film Noir |
Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Book-Based, Based on Play |
Top Collaborators | Norman Taurog (Director), Michael Curtiz (Director), Nunnally Johnson (Producer), Jerry Wald (Producer) |
Shares birthday with | Kent Smith, Louis Hayward, Marvin Mirisch see more.. |
Fred Clark Overview:
Character actor, Fred Clark, was born Frederic Leonard Clark on Mar 19, 1914 in Lincoln, CA. Clark died at the age of 54 on Dec 5, 1968 in Santa Monica, CA .
MINI BIO:
American supporting star, usually the victim of the star comedian - or his own nefarious schemes. He only came to films in his thirties, but quickly established himself as a familiar and popular face. Married to actress Benay Venuta from 1952 to 1963, the first of two wives. Died from a liver ailment.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).HONORS and AWARDS:
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.
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Fred Clark Quotes:
Oliver Stone: [after she laughs] You were going to marry him. He would have done to you what he did to the paper.
[she stops laughing]
Wally Cook: [angrily] Why that two-timing little fraud!
Oliver Stone: Where's YOUR sense of humor?
Donald J. Penney, SIC man: Sometimes I suspect that you forget you're a member of Secret Intelligence Command. You're a SIC man.
Betty Schaefer: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite.
Joe Gillis: Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?
Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say a little something.
Joe Gillis: Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind.
Sheldrake: No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"
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