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Frederick Leonard Clark (March 19, 1914 – December 5, 1968) was an American
United States

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 film
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 character actor
Character actor

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.
in Lincoln, California
Lincoln, California

Lincoln is a city in Placer County, California, California, United States. The population was estimated to be 42,126 in 2007. On July 17, 2007, Forbes.com listed Lincoln as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2006 with an increase of 238.6% in population....
, Clark made his film debut in 1947 in The Unsuspected
The Unsuspected

The Unsuspected is a film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. The black-and-white film was directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a novel written by Charlotte Armstrong, and released by Warner Brothers....
. His 20-year film career included almost 70 films, and numerous television appearances. As a supporting player, with his gruff voice, intimidating build, bald pate, and small moustache beneath an often scowling visage, he was cast as a testy film producer, crime boss, landlord, employer, doctor, or general.

Among his films are Ride the Pink Horse
Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse is an United States crime film film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was film director by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B....
 (1948), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is a 1948 in film fantasy film starring William Powell and Ann Blyth in the title roles. Irene Hervey played Mr....
 (1948), Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road (1949 film)

Flamingo Road is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a story about small town political corruption....
 (1949), White Heat
White Heat

White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:* White Light/White Heat, a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground...
 (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
 (1951), How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 in film romantic comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson....
 (1953), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a film directed by Otto Preminger in 1955 in film. It starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery ....
 (1955), How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)Daddy Long-Legs, Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame is a 1955 in literature novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the Ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis....
 (1958) and Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 Paramount Pictures film starring Jerry Lewis, based on a play by Gore Vidal. It was released on February 4, 1960....
 (1960).






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Frederick Leonard Clark (March 19, 1914 – December 5, 1968) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 character actor
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
.

Career

Born in Lincoln, California
Lincoln, California

Lincoln is a city in Placer County, California, California, United States. The population was estimated to be 42,126 in 2007. On July 17, 2007, Forbes.com listed Lincoln as the nation's fastest growing city from 2000 to 2006 with an increase of 238.6% in population....
, Clark made his film debut in 1947 in The Unsuspected
The Unsuspected

The Unsuspected is a film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. The black-and-white film was directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a novel written by Charlotte Armstrong, and released by Warner Brothers....
. His 20-year film career included almost 70 films, and numerous television appearances. As a supporting player, with his gruff voice, intimidating build, bald pate, and small moustache beneath an often scowling visage, he was cast as a testy film producer, crime boss, landlord, employer, doctor, or general.

Among his films are Ride the Pink Horse
Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse is an United States crime film film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was film director by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B....
 (1948), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is a 1948 in film fantasy film starring William Powell and Ann Blyth in the title roles. Irene Hervey played Mr....
 (1948), Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road (1949 film)

Flamingo Road is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a story about small town political corruption....
 (1949), White Heat
White Heat

White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:* White Light/White Heat, a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground...
 (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
 (1951), How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 in film romantic comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson....
 (1953), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a film directed by Otto Preminger in 1955 in film. It starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery ....
 (1955), How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)Daddy Long-Legs, Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame is a 1955 in literature novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the Ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis....
 (1958) and Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 Paramount Pictures film starring Jerry Lewis, based on a play by Gore Vidal. It was released on February 4, 1960....
 (1960). Although he continued making films during the 1960s (most notably a large role in Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for the series of Gothic fiction "Hammer Horror" films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s....
 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a 1964 in film film by Hammer Film Productions....
 in 1964 and John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is a 1963 novel by William Peter Blatty. The comic spoof of the Cold War was inspired by a May 1960 incident involving United States Francis Gary Powers, a CIA operative whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking an international diplomatic incident....
 in 1965) he was more often seen on television, with guest roles in Burns and Allen
Burns and Allen

Burns and Allen, an American double act consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved substantial success over three decades....
, The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
, The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an United States television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land....
 and I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
 among his many performances.

Personal life

Clark was married to actress Benay Venuta
Benay Venuta

Benay Venuta was an United States actress, singer and dancer.Born Benvenuta Rose Crooke in San Francisco, Venuta attended finishing school in Geneva and lived in London where she worked as a dancer before returning to the States....
 from 1952-62, then model Gloria Glaser from 1966 until his death from liver disease
Liver disease

Liver disease is a broad term describing any single number of diseases affecting the liver. Many are accompanied by jaundice caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the system....
 in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
.

Clark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 for his work in television, at 1713 Vine Street.

Partial filmography

  • The Unsuspected
    The Unsuspected

    The Unsuspected is a film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. The black-and-white film was directed by Michael Curtiz, based on a novel written by Charlotte Armstrong, and released by Warner Brothers....
     (1947)
  • Ride the Pink Horse
    Ride the Pink Horse

    Ride the Pink Horse is an United States crime film film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was film director by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B....
     (1947)
  • Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
    Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

    Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is a 1948 in film fantasy film starring William Powell and Ann Blyth in the title roles. Irene Hervey played Mr....
     (1948)
  • Cry of the City
    Cry of the City

    Cry of the City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth, "The Chair for Martin Rome." Veteran film noir-writer Ben Hecht worked on the film's script, but is not credited....
     (1948)
  • Alias Nick Beal
    Alias Nick Beal

    Alias Nick Beal is a 1949 in film film retelling of the Faust myth. In this version, a judge sells his soul to the devil....
     (1949)
  • Flamingo Road
    Flamingo Road (1949 film)

    Flamingo Road is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a story about small town political corruption....
     (1949)
  • Task Force
    Task Force (film)

    Task Force is a war film made in about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from the USS Langley to the USS Franklin . The film stars Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Walter Brennan, Wayne Morris, Julie London, and Jack Holt ....
     (1949)
  • White Heat
    White Heat

    White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:* White Light/White Heat, a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground...
     (1949)
  • Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California....
     (1950)
  • The Jackpot
    The Jackpot

    The Jackpot is a 1950 United States comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring James Stewart . The film is mostly forgotten today, but was a successful vehicle for Stewart at the time, and featured a young Natalie Wood....
     (1950)
  • The Lemon Drop Kid
    The Lemon Drop Kid

    The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 in film comedy film based on the short story by writer Damon Runyon. The black-and-white movie stars Bob Hope. The Christmas song "Silver Bells ," sung by Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, was introduced in the film....
     (1951)
  • A Place in the Sun
    A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
     (1951)
  • Three for Bedroom "C" (1952)
  • Dreamboat
    Dreamboat (film)

    Dreamboat is a 1952 in film comedy film starring Clifton Webb as a college professor with a mysterious past....
     (1952)
  • The Caddy
    The Caddy

    The Caddy is a film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from November 24, 1952 through February 23, 1953. It was released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1953....
     (1953)
  • How to Marry a Millionaire
    How to Marry a Millionaire

    How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 in film romantic comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson....
     (1953)
  • Living It Up
    Living It Up

    'Living It Up' is a 1954 in film comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Paul Jones from a screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson, based on the 1953 musical Hazel Flagg by Ben Hecht, in turn based on the story Letter to the Edi...
     (1954)
  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
    Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.After the film was completed, Universal Studios wanted to rename it Abbott and Costello in the Stunt Men, because they did not consider the "Keystone Kops" to be relevant anymore....
     (1955)
  • Daddy Long Legs
    Daddy Long Legs (film)

    Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood Musical film comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts....
     (1955)
  • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
    The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)

    The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a film directed by Otto Preminger in 1955 in film. It starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery ....
     (1955)
  • How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
  • Miracle in the Rain
    Miracle in the Rain

    Miracle in the Rain is a 1943 in literature novella written by Ben Hecht. It was published in the Saturday Evening Post on 3 April 1943.It was filmed in 1956 in film by Rudolph Mat? starring Van Johnson, Jane Wyman and in her debut Eileen Heckart....
     (1956)
  • The Birds and the Bees
    The Birds and the Bees (film)

    The Birds and the Bees is a 1956 in film screwball comedy film with musical film, starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. A remake of Preston Sturges' film The Lady Eve, which was based on a story by Monckton Hoffe, the film was directed by Norman Taurog and written by Sidney Sheldon....
     (1956)
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac
    The Solid Gold Cadillac

    The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film film director by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway theatre play of the same name by Teichman and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen....
     (1956)
  • Back from Eternity
    Back from Eternity

    Back from Eternity is a 1956 in film drama film about a planeload of people stranded in the South American jungle, menaced by Headhunting. It is a remake of an earlier film also directed and produced by John Farrow, Five Came Back....
     (1956)
  • The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
    The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

    The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is a United States comedy film made by Russ-Field Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Norman Taurog from a screenplay by Richard Alan Simmons, based on a novel by Sylvia Tate....
     (1957)
  • Don't Go Near the Water
    Don't Go Near the Water (film)

    Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 in film comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II....
     (1957)
  • Auntie Mame
    Auntie Mame (film)

    Auntie Mame is a 1958 in film film based on the Auntie Mame of the same name, starring Rosalind Russell and directed by Morton DaCosta. The screenplay was adapted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and the Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis....
     (1958)
  • The Mating Game
    The Mating Game (film)

    The Mating Game is an MGM color film made in 1959 in film. It is very loosely based on a British novel, The Darling Buds of May, by H.E....
     (1959)
  • It Started with a Kiss
    It Started with a Kiss

    It Started with A Kiss is a 1959 in film film staring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. It was directed by George Marshall ....
     (1959)
  • Risate di gioia (1960)
  • Visit to a Small Planet
    Visit to a Small Planet

    Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 Paramount Pictures film starring Jerry Lewis, based on a play by Gore Vidal. It was released on February 4, 1960....
     (1960)
  • Bells Are Ringing
    Bells Are Ringing

    Bells Are Ringing can refer to:*Bells Are Ringing , a 1956 Broadway musical*Bells Are Ringing , a 1960 movie based on the above*Bells Are Ringing , a 1956 song from the musical...
     (1960)
  • Boys' Night Out
    Boys' Night Out (film)

    Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962 in film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon ....
     (1962)
  • Zotz!
    Zotz!

    Zotz! is a 1947 novel by Walter Karig and a 1962 in film, directed by William Castle, about a man obtaining magical powers from a god of an ancient civilization....
     (1962)
  • Move Over, Darling
    Move Over, Darling

    Move Over, Darling is a 1963 in film remake of the 1940 in film screwball comedy My Favorite Wife that starred Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott....
     (1963)
  • The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
    The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

    The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a 1964 in film film by Hammer Film Productions....
     (1964)
  • John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

    John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is a 1963 novel by William Peter Blatty. The comic spoof of the Cold War was inspired by a May 1960 incident involving United States Francis Gary Powers, a CIA operative whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking an international diplomatic incident....
     (1965)
  • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart and Deborah Walley....
     (1965)
  • Skidoo
    Skidoo (film)

    Skidoo is a 1968 in film comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its wiktionary:creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD....
     (1968)
  • The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)


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