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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:
Buddy Clark (July 26, 1912 - October 1, 1949) was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.
Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the show, Your Hit Parade, and lasted until 1938. In the mid-1930s he signed with Vocalion Records, having a top-20 hit with "Spring Is Here". He did not have another hit until the late 1940s, but continued recording, appearing in movies, and dubbing other actors' voices.
In 1946 he signed with Columbia Records and scored his biggest hit with the song "Linda" recorded in November of that year, but hitting its peak in the following spring. Linda was written especially for the six-year-old daughter of a show business lawyer named Lee Eastman, whose client, song-writer Jack Lawrence, wrote the song at Lee’s request. Upon reaching adulthood and becoming famous as a photographer, Linda was, for a while, something of a musician, later becoming a prominent spokeswoman for vegetarianism and animal rights, and broke a generation of teenage girls' hearts when she married Beatle Paul McCartney.
Actors: Margot Kidder (actress), Lynn Whitfield (actress), Christopher Dedrick (composer), Clark Johnson (actor), Sarah Polley (actress), Daniela Saioni (miscellaneous crew), Denis Akiyama (actor), Richard Chevolleau (actor), Dan Lett (actor), Karen Tyrell (miscellaneous crew), Lloyd Adams (actor), Roy T. Anderson (actor), Susan Maggi (editor), Jery Hewitt (actor), Clement Virgo (writer),
Plot: This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their lives and where they live as their individual "planets," and everyone else as "refugees." But there are problems in his world, where a talent for the piano has been reduced to playing Chopin on a piano that has had the strings cut by his mother out of frustration at his incessant practicing... the same mother who now requires him to be there to administer her insulin shots. Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table... until, like real planets when other bodies get too close, he finds himself pulled and moved in a different direction.
Keywords: based-on-novel, christmas, frédéric-chopin, piano-playingActors: Roger Daltrey (producer), Roger Daltrey (actor), Ed Devereaux (actor), Michael Elphick (actor), Nick Moran (actor), Billy Murray (actor), Douglas Hodge (actor), Julia Sawalha (actress), Alan Ford (actor), Lee Ross (actor), James Aubrey (actor), Bill Curbishley (producer), Roy Baird (producer), John Grover (editor), Claude Whatham (director),
Plot: Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days. However when his father is sent away for a year for covering up for criminal Des it puts further strain on the family relationship. When Terry is released things get steadily harder while Buddy's career gets rosier.
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, independent-filmActors: Richard Martin (actor), Ronald R. Rondell (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Victor Mature (actor), Charles Flynn (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Walter Reed (actor), Harry Holman (actor), Arnold Stang (actor),
Plot: Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Keywords: balloon, bandleader, brig, civil-war, dancing, engagement, fight, heir, horse-riding, marriage-of-convenienceActors: Jere Austin (actor), Wesley Barry (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Roy Stewart (actor), Isadore Bernstein (writer), Nat Ross (director), Esther Ralston (actress), William MacLeod Raine (writer), Verne Winter (actor),
Genres: Western,Peg o' my heart, I love you
We'll never part for I love you
Dear little girl, sweet little girl
Sweeter than the Rose of Erin
It's the shamrock we'll be sharing
Peg o' my heart, your glances
My Irish heart entrances
Come be my own
Come make your home
In my heart