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.
Clark is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom.
According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.
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
People with the surname Clark include:
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs. Among his productions are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) and Prohibition (2011).
Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Ken Burns was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, according to his official website, though some sources give Ann Arbor, Michigan, and some, including The New York Times, give both Brooklyn and Ann Arbor. The son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University, in Manhattan. Ken Burns' brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns.
Burns' academic family moved frequently, and lived in Saint-Véran, France; Newark, Delaware; and Ann Arbor, where his father taught at the University of Michigan. Burns' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when Burns was 3, and died when he was 11, a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his father-in-law, a psychologist, with a signal insight: "He told me that my whole work was an attempt to make people long gone come back alive.". Well-read as a child, he absorbed the family encyclopedia, preferring history to fiction. Upon receiving an 8 mm film movie camera for his 17th birthday, he shot a documentary about an Ann Arbor factory. Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended the new Hampshire College, an alternative school in Amherst, Massachusetts with narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and self-directed academic concentrations instead of traditional majors. He worked in a record store to pay his tuition.
A big secret, revealed at last for love.
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A young college graduate struggling to cope with a father his own age treads against the waters of his own pessimistic views on love and marriage in order to reconcile his relationship with his mother and ensure the well-being of his family.
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A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. The happiness they find together causes them to confront the darkness in their lives.
Keywords: abusive-father, actor-playing-multiple-roles, alcoholic, anal-rape, auto-mechanic, backyard, bar, bare-breasts, bare-butt, based-on-true-story
People say nothing ever happens in Kansas
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Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenage gas station attendant. Soon, sinister things come to pass.
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A Las Vegas casino blackjack dealer plots a complex plan to rob an armored car with $7 million in casino cash while it's en route to Los Angeles. He gets help from criminal associates of his late brother, who was killed in an unsuccessful robbery attempt, as well as his beautiful girlfriend, who is the personal secretary to the corrupt owner of the casino. However, an ambitions investigator for the U.S. Treasury Department is also tracking the armored car, suspecting that it's being used to launder unreported profits for organized crime.
Keywords: armored-car, armored-car-robbery, based-on-novel, caper, number-in-title
They touched the raw Vegas nerve with the wildest heist in history! And they challenged the syndicate boys in their own backyard!
The scene was the wildest freak-out in Vegas history...and the gig was to grab it all!
Ann Bennett: Would you give up everything for me, Tony?
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"Like sands through the hourglass... so are the Days of Our Lives." These words, spoken by late cast member Macdonald Carey, open every episode of this daytime drama, chronicaling the trials and tribulations of the citizens of the fictional city of Salem.
Keywords: boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, cult-tv, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, four-word-title, gossip, husband-wife-relationship, love
Billie Reed #3: [to Kate] For once in your life, just be quiet, and mind your own damn business.
[At Chez Rouge]::Jada: So THAT's Sami Brady, the scandal-a-minute chick.
Lexie Carver: You know, Sami, if I didn't hate you so much, I'd genuinely feel sorry for you.
Sami: Haven't we taught you anything, there are crazies out there!::Will Roberts #3: I didn't have to leave Salem to know that.
EJ Wells: Well, you know the Salem Police Department - they never get anything right.
Sami: If I wasn't so mad at you, I'd have sex on the bar with you.::[EJ gives look slightly towards camera, as if he was speechless]
Bo Brady: Tell Marlena I love her.::John Black: Sorry Bo, she's taken.
[Sami is venting to a bathroom attendant to feel better]::Sami: I rarely ever have someone to talk to, you know, I'm just - talkin' to myself.
[after disguising herself and stealing a document from Carrie's office in L.A]::Nicole: Oh, Nicole - that chick on Alias has got nothing on you.
Victor: [to Kate] You know, for some one who loves their children so much, you certainly seem to do them a terrible disservice.
... and so I said, "I've got some time to waste and I'm just running through my mind."
Although, the city looks so picturesque tonight, something has gone wrong.
But I'm alright.
Just turn it up now and I will be running right behind to turn you down.
When you told me you were staying around, I believed you.
Something in my mind just told me that you should forget about me, and I will forget about you.
No, I think I'll just stay consistent. I've never really been wrong before.
I know that I will not forget you, and if you are trying, you will do the same.
No, I will stay my course. I've never been wrong before.
You said it's not right.
You said it's not right.
I'll watch you go while these city lights collide.
You said it's not right.
But this is our time.