Eugene Clark (actor)

Eugene Clark
Clark in 2024
Born
Anthony Eugene Clark[1]

(1951-12-03) December 3, 1951 (age 73)
Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Other namesEugene A. Clark
Eugene Clarke
American football career
Career information
College:UCLA
Position:Offensive guard
NFL draft:1975 / round: 9th
Career history
Toronto Argonauts (1977–1978)
Career highlights and awards

Eugene Clark (born December 3, 1951) is an American-Canadian character actor and former football player.

Early life

Clark was born in Tampa, Florida. He attended Riverside Polytechnic High School.[2]

Career

Football

He was an actor four years before he began playing college football and he was an all-conference offensive guard at UCLA. Named to the first All-Star teams for both the Pacific-8 and the West Coast Athletic Conference, Clark also received All Star All American Honorable Mention Laurels, played in the Hula Bowl and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the 1975 NFL draft. While he did not appear in a National Football League game, he did play in the Canadian Football League for 20 games for the Toronto Argonauts (in 1977 and 1978).[a][3]

Acting

Clark had a prominent co-starring role as Sid Gomez in the 1990s science fiction show William Shatner's Tek War.[1]

He also appeared on Night Heat, RoboCop: Prime Directives, The Twilight Zone, Side Effects, Tropical Heat, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, The L.A. Complex, and made a cameo in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie. He also starred in the VH1 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story',[1] and the thriller Legend of the Mountain Witch.[4]

Clark played the role of Mufasa in the Ontario Broadway production of The Lion King for two years.[5]

Clark's best-known theatrical film role was in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead as the head zombie, "Big Daddy".[1]

Filmography

Clark at the Weekend Of Horrors 11 Convention Oberhausen, Germany, 2013

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1981 Improper Channels Security Guard #1
1984 Thrillkill Grissom
The House of Dies Drear River Ross Darrow TV movie
1985 Martin's Day Hydro Repairman
Shellgame Big Edward TV movie
1986 Flying Roy Teler
Doing Life Wiggins TV movie
Unnatural Causes Roberts TV movie
1987 Three Men and a Baby Man at Party #1
1988 The Good Mother Arch
1989 The Unknown Mission Craig Ashby
Mindfield Hugh McVeigh
1990 The Kissing Place Bus Driver TV movie
Johnny Ryan Joe Johnson TV movie
1991 Knight Rider 2000 Officer Kurt Miller TV movie
Plymouth Larry TV movie
1992 The Swordsman Police Captain
From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One Det. Dick Price TV movie
Split Images Malik TV movie
1993 Trial & Error Andrew Barnes/Sandi Richards TV movie
Brian Spencer Lenn Wright TV movie
1994 TekWar Sid Gomez TV movie
TekWar: TekLords Sid Gomez TV movie
TekWar: TekLab Sid Gomez TV movie
TekWar: TekJustice Sid Gomez TV movie
Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story Det. Cabrillo TV movie
1995 Falling for You Detective TV movie
Gladiator Cop Police Captain
1997 Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way Bob Watson TV movie
Face Down Captain McGuiness TV movie
Windsor Protocol Vice President Anson Powers TV movie
1998 Down in the Delta Citizen 1
Earthquake in New York - TV movie
Free of Eden 'Fast' Freddie TV movie
Dead Husbands Sheriff Moss TV movie
1999 In the Company of Spies Edward Boyd TV movie
One Heart Broken Into Song Hud Jarvis
2000 The Magic of Marciano Del
On Hostile Ground Mayor John Lafitte TV movie
Who Killed Atlanta's Children? Dave TV movie
Turn It Up Marshall
Slow Burn Attorney Marlowe King
2001 Cause of Death Det. Carmine De Luca
Loves Music, Loves to Dance - TV movie
2002 Redeemer - TV movie
2003 Jasper, Texas Don Clark TV movie
2004 Reversible Errors Chief Harold Greer TV movie
Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story Bobby TV movie
2005 Murder at the Presidio Captain Donovan TV movie
Land of the Dead Big Daddy
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story Reginald Spivey TV movie
2006 Doomstown Officer Connors TV movie
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Cadillac
2007 Still Small Voices Sergeant Gillett
Resurrecting the Champ Washburn
Talk to Me Bar Patron 2
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming Older Vet TV movie
2009 Walled In Burnett
Dolan's Cadillac Tink
Deadliest Sea Moss TV movie
Too Late to Say Goodbye Richmond Chief TV movie
2011 High Chicago Buzz
2012 Stand by Your Booth Nick TV movie
Home Again Principle Raye
Aladdin and the Death Lamp Khalil TV movie
A Dark Truth Clive Bell
2014 Bully Fighters Judge Princeton Sanders Short
An En Vogue Christmas Nathan TV movie
2015 Born to Be Blue Henry Azuka
Look Again Clarence
2017 Bruno & Boots: This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall King Diaz TV movie
The Recall Eddie Jackson
Christmas Next Door Nick TV movie
2019 Nostalgic Christmas Martin DeLong TV movie
2020 The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel Presiding Bishop TV movie
Marry Me This Christmas 'Pops' Reed TV movie
2021 The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice Herc Zinneman TV movie
2022 All I Didn’t Want for Christmas Stan Harris TV movie

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1973 Kung Fu Comanchero Episode: "The Spirit-Helper"
1976 Most Wanted Cleveland Jones Episode: "The Heisman Killer"
1985-89 Night Heat Detective Colby Burns Main cast
1986 Seeing Things Lonnie Episode: "Optical Illusion"
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Rufe Episode: "Pickup on Noon Street"
Hot Shots Det. Colby Burns Episode: "Accidental Victims" & "Riot"
1987 Echoes in the Darkness Proctor Nowell Episode: "Part I" & "Part II"
Street Legal Judge Rawlings Episode: "Lost and Lonely Hearts"
1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Andy Wilson Episode: "User Deadly"
War of the Worlds Sgt. Gordon Reynolds Episode: "The Resurrection: Part 1 & 2"
1989 The Twilight Zone Capt. Henry Kincaid Episode: "The Wall"
Life Goes On Ritcher Episode: "Pilot"
E.N.G. Garbageman Episode: "Dirty Trick"
1990 Equal Justice Rev. Marcus Calvin Episode: "Pilot"
Nasty Boys - Episode: "Flesh and Blood"
Carol & Company - Episode: "Reunion"
1990-91 E.N.G. John Elman Main cast: season 2
1991 In the Heat of the Night L.A.P.D. Detective Episode: "Just a Country Boy"
Street Legal Delroy Payne Episode: "Shades of Difference" & "Questions of Dignity"
Counterstrike Clayton Episode: "Fire in the Streets"
1991-92 Tropical Heat Ollie Porte Recurring cast: season 1-2
1992 Secret Service Fats Episode: "A Teller of Tales/Food for Thought"
Great Scott! Coach Episode: "Pilot" & "Hair Scare"
1993 Top Cops Wisdom Episode: "Craig Chew/Denny Joyce/Norman Pressley"
1994 Catwalk Burr Episode: "Killing Time"
1994-95 TekWar Sid Gomez Main cast
1995-96 Side Effects Ray Whelan Recurring cast: season 2
1996 Lonesome Dove: The Series Foley Episode: "Partners"
1997 Due South Joe Mendelson Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
1998 The Last Don II Agent McKiff Episode: "Episode #1.1" & "Episode #1.2"
Traders - Episode: "The Falcon and the Showman"
1999 Little Men Samuel Tyler Episode: "The Living Years"
Earth: Final Conflict Mayor Carter Dubois Episode: "Déjà Vu"
The City Russell Carter Episode: "Joy Ride: Part II"
2001 RoboCop: Prime Directives Carver RH Episode: "Meltdown"
2002 Doc Coach Thomas Episode: "Love of the Game"
2002-04 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye Ted Garrett Recurring cast
2003 The Wonderful World of Disney Preacher #1 Episode: "Sounder"
The District Eugene Birch Episode: "Blind Eye"
2004 Threat Matrix Honorable Justice Lamb Episode: "19 Seconds"
2005 Tilt Dr. Marcellin Episode: "Risk Tolerance"
This Is Wonderland Reverend Thomas Episode: "Episode #2.10" & "Episode #3.2"
2007-10 The Latest Buzz Mr. Pierce Guest: season 1, recurring cast: season 2-3
2009 The Line Currie Recurring cast
Majority Rules! Frank Episode: "Go Girl!"
2010-12 Wingin' It Coach Heinrich Recurring cast
2011 Breakout Kings The Mayor Episode: "Where in the World Is Carmen Vega"
Dan for Mayor Police Chief Paddy O'Malley Episode: "Awkward Speedoo"
2012 The Firm Judge Pruill Episode: "Chapter Five"
Lost Girl Fletcher Episode: "The Girl Who Fae'd with Fire"
The Listener Abbassi Ayim Episode: "The Taking"
The L.A. Complex Walter Dougan Recurring cast: season 2
2013 Cracked ETF Squad Leader Episode: "Swans"
2014 Remedy Curtis Decker Episode: "The Little Things"
2014-17 Space Riders: Division Earth Commander Stern Recurring cast
2015 The Art of More Edward Leigh Mason Main cast: season 1
2017 Private Eyes Judge Episode: "The P.I. Code"
Dark Matter Sheriff Vargas Episode: "Isn't That a Paradox?"
Frankie Drake Mysteries Jack Porter Episode: "Mother of Pearl"
2018 In Contempt Franklin Recurring cast
2020 Blue's Clues & You! Potato (voice) Episode: "Growing with Blue"
2021 Coroner Delmar McAvoy Recurring cast: season 3
2020-22 Transplant Marcus Curtis Recurring cast

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Eugene Clark". IMDb. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Eugene Clark football Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  3. ^ "Canadian Football League". www.worldleagueofamericanfootball.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  4. ^ "Trailer of the Mountain Witch". Dread Central. November 4, 2009. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved May 19, 2021.[self-published source]
  5. ^ "Toronto Lion King Cast in Rehearsals; First Preview March 30". Playbill. February 19, 2000. Retrieved January 16, 2024.

Notes

  1. ^ A scan of a 1978 Toronto Argonauts program shows Clark's football biography and correct birthdate.[self-published source?]