Dane Clark
from the trailer for Whiplash (1948)
Born	Bernard Zanville (1912-02-26)February 26, 1912 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	September 11, 1998(1998-09-11) (aged 86) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Years active	1940–1989
Spouse	Margot Yoder (m. 1941–1970) «start: (1941)–end+1: (1971)»"Marriage: Margot Yoder to Dane Clark" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Dane_Clark) (her death) Geraldine Zanville (m. 1971–1998) «start: (1971)–end+1: (1999)»"Marriage: Geraldine Zanville to Dane Clark" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Dane_Clark) (his death)

Dane Clark (February 26, 1912 – September 11, 1998)^[1] was an American film actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average".^[2]

Early life[link]

Clark was born Bernard Zanville in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish immigrants Samuel and Rose. Samuel was a sporting goods store owner.^[3]

He graduated from Cornell University and earned a law degree at St. John's University School of Law in Queens, New York. During the Great Depression, he worked as a boxer, baseball player, construction worker, and model.^[2]

Acting career[link]

Modeling brought him in contact with people in the arts. He gradually perceived them to be snobbish, with their talk of the "theatah", and "I decided to give it a try myself, just to show them anyone could do it."^[2]

He progressed from small Broadway parts to larger ones, eventually taking over the role of George from Wallace Ford in the 1937 production of Of Mice and Men.^[2] Clark got his big break when he was signed by Warner Bros. in 1943. He worked alongside some of his era's biggest stars, often in war movies such as Action in the North Atlantic (1943), his breakthrough part (opposite Humphrey Bogart who also starred with him in Hollywood Canteen), Destination Tokyo (1943) with Cary Grant, and Pride of the Marines (1945) with friend and fellow New Yorker John Garfield. According to Clark, Bogart gave him his stage name.^[2]

Clark played Peter Chambers in the short-lived radio show Crime and Peter Chambers, a half-hour show that aired from April 6 to September 7, 1954. In the 1954-1955 season, Clark co-starred as the character Richard Adams, with Gary Merrill in the role of Jason Tyler, in the NBC crime drama Justice, about attorneys of the Legal Aid Society of New York.^[4]

In 1959, he reprised Humphrey Bogart's role as Slate in Bold Venture, a short lived television series. He also guest starred on a number of television shows, including Appointment with Adventure and The Twilight Zone, in the episode "The Prime Mover". He also played Lieutenant Tragg in the short-lived revival of the Perry Mason television series in 1973.

Partial filmography[link]

• "The Rear Gunner" US ARMY AIR FORCE TRAINING FILM (As Bernard Zanville, 1943)
• Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
• Destination Tokyo (1943)
• The Very Thought of You (1944)
• Hollywood Canteen (1944)
• I Won't Play (1945) (short)
• God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
• Pride of the Marines (1945)
• Her Kind of Man (1946)
• A Stolen Life (1946)
• That Way with Women (1947)
• Deep Valley (1947)
• Moonrise (1948)
• Whiplash (1948)
• Embraceable You (1948)
• Without Honor (1949)
• Backfire (1950)
• Gunman in the Streets (1950)
• Highly Dangerous (1950)
• Never Trust a Gambler (1951)
• Fort Defiance (1951)
• Go, Man, Go! (1954)
• Murder by Proxy (1954)
• Massacre (1956)
• Murder on Flight 502 (1975) (TV)
• The Woman Inside (1981)
• Blood Song (1982)
• Last Rites (1988)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dane Clark

• Dane Clark at the Internet Movie Database
• Dane Clark at AllRovi
• Dane Clark at the Internet Broadway Database

Clark
Family name
A scribe or clerk, the occupation from which the name derives
Meaning	Clerk, scribe, secretary
Region of origin	England
Language(s) of origin	Old English
Related names	Clarke, Clerk
Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons[1]

Clark is an English surname in the English language, ultimately derived from the Latin clericus meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated or a old man with a moustache. Clark evolved from "clerk". First records of the name are found in 12th century England. The name has many variants.^[2]

Clark is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom.^[1]

According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.^[3]

Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of Clark Gable.

Probably the most famouse person named Clark is Clark Kent a.k.a. Superman

List of people with surname Clark[link]

People with the surname Clark include:

• Abraham Clark (1725–1794), American politician and Revolutionary War figure
• Alan Clark (1928–1999), British Conservative politician and author, son of Kenneth Clark
• Allen George Clark (1898–1962), British businessman
• Andy Clark (musician), British musician
• Anne Clark (born 1960), poet-songwriter
• Benjamin S. W. Clark (1829–1912), New York politician
• Billy J. Clark (1778–1866), New York physician and politician
• Bob Clark (Benjamin "Bob" Clark) (1941–2007), American director
• Brian Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Buddy Clark (1911–1949), American singer
• Carmel Clark (born 1965), New Zealand swimmer
• Catherine Clark (born 1976), Canadian television host
• Charles Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Chris Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Christian Clark (born 1979), Australian actor
• Claudine Clark, R&B singer and performer of the 1962 hit record "Party Lights"
• Colin Clark (disambiguation)
• Corrie Clark (born 1982), American breaststroke swimmer
• Dallas Clark, American football player
• Daniel Clark (Canadian politician and actor), Canadian actor
• Daniel Kinnear Clark (1822–1896), British railway mechanical engineer
• Darius Clark (1798–1871), New York physician and politician
• Dave Clark (musician) (born 1942), drummer of The Dave Clark Five
• David Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Davis Wasgatt Clark (1812–1871), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Dick Clark (disambiguation), several people
  • Dick Clark (1929–2012), entertainer and producer, host of Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
• Douglas Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Duncan Clark (1910–2007), an American public health specialist
• Duncan Clark (athlete) (1915–2003), Scottish hammer thrower
• Dwight Clark, American football player
• Ernest Clark (1912–1994), British actor
• Eugene Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Frank Clark (footballer), English football player
  • Frank M. Clark (1915–2003), American Congressman
• Gavin Brown Clark (1846–1930), MP for Caithness
• George Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Gerry Clark (1927–1999), New Zealand sailor and ornithologist
• Ginger Clark (1879–1943), American baseball pitcher
• Glenn Clark (born 1969), Canadian coach of Toronto Rock
• Helen Clark (born 1950), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
• Hilda Clark (1872–1932), American Coca-Cola advertising spokesperson
• Hilda Margery Clarke (born 1926), English painter and curator
• Horace Clark, 1830s New York politician
• Horace F. Clark (1815–1873), US Congressman from New York
• Hugh Massey Clark (1886–1956), New York philatelist
• Hulda Regehr Clark, alternative medicine practitioner
• Isabella Clark, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald
• Jack Clark (disambiguation), several people
• James Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Jeff Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Joe Clark (born 1939), former Prime Minister of Canada
• John Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Jonas Gilman Clark (1815–1900), American businessman and the founder of Clark University
• Joseph Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Joshua Clark, (born 1980), American writer
• Karen Clark (born 1945), American politician from Minnesota
• Katy Clark (born 1967), British politician and trade union official
• Kenneth Clark (psychologist) (1914–2005), African American psychologist who testified in Brown v. Board of Education
• Kenneth Clark (1902–1983), British art historian; creator of the series Civilisation
• Leslie J. Clark (1924–2003), British engineer and founder of Parvalux
• Louis Clark, musician and conductor with the Orchestra (former members of ELO and ELO Part II)
• Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australian historian
• Marcus R. Clark (born 1956), Louisiana Supreme Court justice
• Mark Wayne Clark (1896–1984), American Army General in WW2 (Italy) and the Korean War
• Nancy B. Clark, person of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
• Ocky Clark (born 1960), American middle distance runner
• Orville Clark (1801–1862), New York politician
• Otey Clark (born 1915), American baseball pitcher
• Ramsey Clark (born 1927), U.S. Attorney General and activist
• Ranza Clark (born 1961), Canadian middle distance runner
• Roger Clark, British rally driver
• Ryan Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Samuel Clark (disambiguation), several people
  • Samuel Delbert Clark (1910–2003), Canadian sociologist
• Sherman Clark (1899–1980), American Olympic rower and Rear Admiral
• Simon Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Steve Clark (1960–1991), British guitarist for Def Leppard
• Stuart Clark (born 1975), Australian cricketer
• Theresa Maria Clark (c. 1890 – 1953), person of New York
• Thomas Clark (disambiguation), several people
• Tom Clark (journalist), Canadian television journalist
• Tom C. Clark (1899–1977), U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Tracy Clark, fictional character from The CW primetime drama 90210
• Wendel Clark (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey player
• Wesley K. Clark (born 1944), American Army General in the Vietnam War and Kosovo
• Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1895–1971), British palaeanthropologist
• Will Clark (born 1964), American baseball player
• William Clark (disambiguation), several people

See also[link]

• The Clark Sisters, American gospel vocalists from Detroit
• Clark (taxonomic authority)
• Clarke
• Clerke (disambiguation)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Clark(e) Surname DNA Project

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Alain Clark
Alain Clark, Westerpop 2008
Background information
Birth name	Alain Clark
Born	(1979-06-04) June 4, 1979 (age 33)
Origin	Haarlem, Netherlands
Genres	Soul, pop
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2004–present
Labels	8BallMusic,
Website	www.alainclark.com

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Alain Clark (born 4 June 1979 in Haarlem, The Netherlands) is a Dutch musician and producer.

Biography[link]

Alain Clark is born in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He went to there to the Coornhert Lyceum and also lived in the USA for 3 years to work on his songwriting skills. His first album was released in 2004, written and produced by himself, in Dutch and contained the hitsong Heerlijk.

As a producer he worked with Ali B and many others. He produced the debute album of singer Boris. He won the Dutch Zilveren Harp in 2004.

In January 2007 Clark worked on his first album in English. Steve Gadd played all drums on Live It Out, an album that went Gold after within 3 months. Today the album is 3 times Platinum, which means 180.000 copies are sold. The album contains hitsingles like This Ain't Gonna Work, which went straight to the Top 3 and stayed in the Dutch charts for 12 weeks, and the famous duet with his father Dane Clark titled Father and Friend. Dane Clark was the singer of the band Dane and the Dukes of Soul. After these two hitsingles, Blow Me Away reached the Dutch Top 10 as well. In the end of 2007 Alain received a Mega Award. In 2008 he received a 3FM Award and in 2009 he won the high respected Edison Music Award.

After his succes in The Netherlands, Alain Clark released the album in the United Kingdom, and reached the charts inItaly and Switzerland.

In 2010 Clark released his album Colorblind. It went Gold on the first day. It contains the singles Love Is Everywhere, Good Days and a duet with Diane Birch titled Too Soon To End. The album was released in Italy, Switzerland, Brasil and Latvia.

After Live It Out and Colorblind, both very successful records full of melodic soul, 32-year old Alain returns on Generation Love Revival to the passion of his youth: the groove. Alain: ‘At fifteen I mainly listened to hiphop artists. Like them I was only interested in rhythm and minimal melody. Those were my roots, that’s the way I started making music. On Generation Love Revival I return to that groove-based way of composing. And of course: I use all the experience of the years in between.’

‘I am proud of the cast. Besides Pablo Penton and Pablo Minoli, Chris ‘Daddy’ Dave (drums), Pino Palladino (bass) and Cleo ‘Pookie’ Sample (keyboards) contributed to the record.’ They also played on the last records of soul star D’Angelo and Adele.

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alain Clark official Dutch web site
• Alain Clark official UK web site
• Alain Clark French web site
• Review of Alain Clark's UK Showcase
• Alain Clark interview
• New album review
• Interview on Central FM, Spain. Click to listen

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Zachary Scott
from the trailer for the film Mildred Pierce (1945).
Born	(1914-02-21)February 21, 1914 Austin, Texas, U.S.
Died	October 3, 1965(1965-10-03) (aged 51) Austin, Texas. U.S.
Years active	1941 - 1965
Spouse	Elaine Anderson (1934–1950) Ruth Ford (1952–1965)

Zachary Scott (February 21, 1914 – October 3, 1965)^[1] was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".

Life and career[link]

Born in Austin, Texas, he was a distant cousin of George Washington, and his grandfather had been a very successful cattle rancher.

Scott intended to be a doctor like his father, Zachary Scott Sr. (1880–1964),^[2] but after attending the University of Texas for a while, he decided to switch to acting. He signed on as a cabin boy on a freighter which took him to England, where he acted in repertory theatre for a while, before he returned to Austin, and began acting in local theater.

Alfred Lunt discovered Scott in Texas and convinced him to move to New York City, where he appeared on Broadway. Scott made his debut on Broadway in a revival of Ah, Wilderness! in 1941 with a small role as a bartender. Three years later, Jack Warner saw him in a performance of Those Endearing Young Charms and signed him to appear in The Mask of Dimitrios.

He appeared the next year in Mildred Pierce to much acclaim. In the film, Scott was Joan Crawford's somewhat sleazy love interest, whose mysterious murder formed the basis of the plot. (The character was equally sleazy but was not killed in the novel on which the movie was based.) In 1946 exhibitors voted him the third most promising "star of tomorrow".^[3]

During this period, Scott and his first wife Elaine socialized regularly with Angela Lansbury and her first husband, Richard Cromwell. Elaine Scott had met Zachary Scott back in Austin and she made a name for herself behind the scenes on Broadway as stage manager for the original production of Oklahoma!. The Scotts had one child together, Waverly Scott.

Zachary Scott enjoyed playing scoundrels and the public enjoyed those portrayals, too. Scott went on to star in such movies as The Southerner, The Unfaithful, Cass Timberlane, Flamingo Road, Flaxy Martin, Guilty Bystander, Wings of Danger, and Shadow on the Wall, opposite Nancy Davis Reagan and Ann Sothern. He later starred in Luis Buñuel's The Young One (La Joven, 1960), Buñuel's second English language movie (the first being Adventures of Robinson Crusoe).

In 1950, Scott was involved in a rafting accident. Also during that year, he divorced his first wife, Elaine, who subsequently married writer John Steinbeck. Possibly as a result of these developments or due to a box-office slump, Scott succumbed to a depression which in turn limited his acting. Since Warner Bros. did not continue to promote his films, he turned back to the stage, and also appeared on television. During this period Scott remarried and he and his second wife, actress Ruth Ford, had a child together as well (he adopted her daughter from a previous marriage). He moved back to Austin, where he died from a brain tumor at the age of 51.

A theatre center in Austin bears his name. His family has endowed two chairs at the University of Texas's theatre department in his name.

Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A street at the old airport Mueller Redevelopment in Austin is named in his honor.

Filmography[link]

• The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
• Hollywood Canteen (1944)
• The Southerner (1945)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Danger Signal (1945)
• Her Kind of Man (1946)
• Stallion Road (1947)
• The Unfaithful (1947)
• Cass Timberlane (1947)
• Ruthless (1948)
• Whiplash (1948)
• Flaxy Martin (1949)
• South of St. Louis (1949)
• Flamingo Road (1949)
• One Last Fling (1949)
• Guilty Bystander (1950)
• Shadow on the Wall (1950)
• Colt .45 (1950)
• Born to Be Bad (1950)
• Pretty Baby (1950)
• Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
• The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
• Stronghold (1951)
• Let's Make It Legal (1951)
• Dead on Course (1952)
• Appointment in Honduras (1953)
• Treasure of Ruby Hills (1955)
• Shotgun (1955)
• Flame of the Islands (1956)
• Bandido (1956)
• The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
• Violent Stranger (1957)
• The Young One (1960)
• Natchez Trace (1960)
• It's Only Money (1962)

See also[link]

Biography portal

• List of notable brain tumor patients

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Zachary Scott

• Zachary Scott at the Internet Movie Database
• Zachary Scott at the Internet Broadway Database
• Zachary Scott at Find a Grave
• The Zachary Scott Theatre Center (ZACH)
• Zachary Scott photos on the Portal to Texas History

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Janis Paige (born September 16, 1922) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress.

Early life and career[link]

Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public at age five in local amateur shows. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school and was hired as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.

The Hollywood Canteen was a studio-sponsored club for members of the military. A Warner Bros. agent saw her potential and signed her to a contract. She began co-starring in low budget musicals, often paired with Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson. She later co-starred in adventures and dramas, in which she felt out of place. Following her role in Two Gals and a Guy (1951), she decided to leave Hollywood.

Paige appeared on Broadway and was a huge hit in a 1951 comedy-mystery play, Remains to Be Seen, co-starring Jackie Cooper. She also toured successfully as a cabaret singer.

Stardom came in 1954 with her role as "Babe" in the Broadway musical The Pajama Game. (Doris Day played the part on film.) After a six years away, Paige returned to Hollywood in Silk Stockings (1957), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, the Doris Day comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), and as a love-starved married neighbor in Bachelor in Paradise (1961) with Bob Hope.

A rare dramatic role was as "Marion," an institutionalized prostitute, in The Caretakers (1963).

Musical theatre[link]

Paige returned to Broadway in 1963 in the short-lived Here's Love, and as one of a succession of actresses playing the title role in the musical Mame. She also appeared in touring productions of musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Applause, Ballroom, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, and Guys and Dolls.

Television[link]

In the 1955-1956 television season, Paige starred in her own CBS situation comedy, It's Always Jan, co-starring Merry Anders. The 26-week program preceded the first season of Gunsmoke on the Saturday evening schedule. The plot, set in New York City, centered around Paige as Jan Stewart, a widowed mother, and her two female roommates played by Anders and Patricia Bright.^[1]

On April 5, 1961, Paige appeared in the lead role in "The Nellie Jefferson Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. Jefferson is a well-known stage actress who joins the wagon train to be rid of her domineering ex-husband. Charlie Wooster, played by Frank McGrath, is designated as Nellie's driver. Smitten by his traveling companion, Wooster goes out of his way to make her trip pleasant. Then the ex-husband appears again.^[2]

Paige also appeared on such programs as The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, Trapper John, M.D., All in the Family, Columbo and Caroline in the City. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was seen on soap operas such as General Hospital (as Katharine Delafield's flashy Aunt Iona, a lady counterfeiter; Capitol (as Sam Clegg's first wife, Laureen), and Santa Barbara (replacing the older Dame Judith Anderson as matriarch Minx Lockridge). In 1982 she appeared on St. Elsewhere as a female flasher who stalked the hallways of the hospital to "cheer up" the male patients. Although her character said she was "celebrating her 50th birthday," Paige was actually sixty at the time of filming.