Most Recent Role: on The Wire
Alias Name(s): J. Clark Johnson, D. Clark Johnson, David Clark Johnson, Clarke Johnson
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: 8-10-1954
Alias Name(s): J. Clark Johnson, D. Clark Johnson, David Clark Johnson, Clarke Johnson
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: 8-10-1954
Clark is biracial and was born in September of 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He moved to Canada in and his teens. He attended Concordia University in Montreal. At one time he played for the Toronto Argonauts football team in the Canadian Football league. His career in film and television began in the early 1980s. His big break seemed to come with Canadian produced CBS program Hot Shots...
Most Recent Appearance
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Sunday 9 March 2008 on HBO
Carcetti maps out a damage-control scenario with the police brass in the wake of a startling revelation from Pearlman and Daniels, their choices are either to clean up the mess, or hide the dirt; McNulty, with his leads predictably drying up, asks Landsman to pull police off the homeless case,...
Clark has a "Bacon Number" of 2.
He was in On Their Knees with Maury Chaykin,
Maury was in Where the Truth Lies with Kevin Bacon. (edit) He spent time performing improv with Toronto's Second City troupe. (edit) Johnson gained his cop attitude after studying Sonny Grasso. Grasso, a real cop, had been played in the film The French Connection by Roy Scheider. (edit) As a child actor, he toured in productions of musicals such as Finian’s Rainbow and Porgy and Bess. (edit) During a short career in football he was cut by Buffalo twice, Pittsburgh once, and one season the Canadian Football League paid him $250 a week for him to stay home. (edit)
He was in On Their Knees with Maury Chaykin,
Maury was in Where the Truth Lies with Kevin Bacon. (edit) He spent time performing improv with Toronto's Second City troupe. (edit) Johnson gained his cop attitude after studying Sonny Grasso. Grasso, a real cop, had been played in the film The French Connection by Roy Scheider. (edit) As a child actor, he toured in productions of musicals such as Finian’s Rainbow and Porgy and Bess. (edit) During a short career in football he was cut by Buffalo twice, Pittsburgh once, and one season the Canadian Football League paid him $250 a week for him to stay home. (edit)
Clark Johnson: (Talking about his character Meldrick Lewis) I wanted to make this guy like Everyman. When he gets heartburn from eating a meatball sub at 2 a.m., I want cops to go, 'Oh yeah, I know that feeling.'
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Clark Johnson: The character of Meldrick just sort of evolved as we went along. I would say that he's 50 percent from me and 50 percent from the writers. Now, if you talk to these arrogant writers, they'd probably say 60/40 on their part, or even 70/30, but you know how writers are.
(edit)
Clark Johnson: If I went back to special effects it wouldn't bother me, I don't want to go on Hollywood Squares to pay the rent.
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Clark Johnson: I'm not a big fan of actor-directors.
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Other Appearances
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|---|---|
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E.N.G.
Clarke Roberts |
Hammerman
various |
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Homicide: Life on the Street
Det. Meldrick Lewis |
Hot Shots
Al Pendalton |
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The Wire
City Editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes |
| Recurring Role |
|---|
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Night Heat
Dave Jefferson |
| Guest Star | |
|---|---|
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Man on the Edge Officer Stoker |
Cold Squad
Jane Doe (1) Detective Derrick Clark |
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Cold Squad
Jane Doe (2) Detective Derrick Clark |
Counterstrike
The Three Tramps Sostre |
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Diamonds
Dinosaur Fish |
Forever Knight
Can't Run, Can't Hide Casey Brooks/Lt. Travis Drake |
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