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Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Appearing regularly in stories published by DC Comics, he debuted in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) and serves as the civilian and secret identity of the superhero Superman.
Over the decades there has been considerable debate as to which personality the character identifies with most. From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, "Clark Kent" was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman, enabling him to mix with ordinary people. This was the view in most comics and other media such as TV (starring George Reeves) and radio. In 1986, during John Byrne's revamping of the character, the emphasis was on Superman being the manufactured persona of Clark Kent, the side of the character he most identifies with. Different takes persist in the present.
Through the popularity of his Superman alter ego, the personality, concept, and name of Clark Kent have become ingrained in popular culture as well, becoming synonymous with secret identities and innocuous fronts for ulterior motives and activities. In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.
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:
Kent /ˈkɛnt/ is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city status, though only the latter still holds it.
Kent's location between London and the continental Europe has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during World War II. East Kent was known as Hell Fire Corner during the conflict. England has relied on the county's ports to provide warships through much of the past 800 years; the Cinque Ports in the 12th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from Folkestone, and the iconic White Cliffs of Dover.
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Actors: Michael G. Kehoe (miscellaneous crew), David S. Goyer (writer), James D. Dever (miscellaneous crew), Joe Shuster (writer), Ben Affleck (actor), Jerry Siegel (writer), Bob Kane (writer), Michael E. Uslan (producer), Diane Lane (actress), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Christopher Nolan (producer), Ben Affleck (actor), Amy Adams (actress), Charles Roven (producer), Zack Snyder (director),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Diedrich Bader (actor), Melissa Disney (actress), Joe Shuster (writer), Andrea Romano (actress), Jerry Siegel (writer), Alan Burnett (producer), Andrea Romano (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Root (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Andrea Romano (actress), Frances Conroy (actress), Renee Toporzysek (miscellaneous crew), Geoff Johns (writer), Sam Register (producer), Wade Williams (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation,Actors: Richard Schiff (actor), Aaron Pearl (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Julian Richings (actor), Christopher Meloni (actor), Johnny Otto (actor), Mike Dopud (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), Harry Lennix (actor), Mackenzie Gray (actor), David Lewis (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Russell Crowe (actor), Ian Tracey (actor), Michael Shannon (actor),
Plot: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, action-hero, adopted-son, adoption, adoptive-father, adoptive-mother, air-strike, airplane, alien, alien-abductionActors: Erik A. Williams (actor), Andrew List (writer), Andrew List (director), Andrew List (editor), Andrew List (producer), Matt Cross (actor), Ricky DeBats (writer), Josh Boultinghouse (actor), Josh Boultinghouse (actor), Ash Hanif (composer), Eric Ochs (producer), Jeremy Carnrike (actor), John Campbell (actor), Daniel Baldwin (actor), Jeremy Carnrike (producer),
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Bruce W. Timm (writer), Cree Summer (actress), Bruce W. Timm (producer), Adam Baldwin (actor), Adam Baldwin (actor), Swoosie Kurtz (actress), Adam Baldwin (actor), Kevin Smith (actor), James Arnold Taylor (actor), Ray Wise (actor), Adam Wylie (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Anne Heche (actress), Tom Kenny (actor), Bruce W. Timm (director),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi,Actors: Elizabeth Peña (actress), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Dean Cain (actor), Sheryl Lee (actress), Eva Longoria (actress), Christian Bale (actor), James Denton (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), William H. Macy (actor), Dougray Scott (actor), Burt Young (actor), Kevin Zegers (actor), Drew Barrymore (actress), Lara Flynn Boyle (actress), Marcia Cross (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Fernando Guillén (actor), David San José (composer), Marta Fernández Tapias (costume designer), Ana Turpin (actress), Jesús Liedo (producer), Jesús Liedo (actor), Pico Díaz (editor), Luis Arribas de la Cruz (writer), Luis Arribas de la Cruz (director), María San Román Riveiro (writer), María Combarros (actress), Rafael Benentes (actor), Juanjo Beloqui (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: James Remar (actor), Dean Cain (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Richard Libertini (actor), Carrie Preston (actress), Robert Singer (producer), Robert Singer (director), Joan Egan Foglia (miscellaneous crew), Joan Egan Foglia (miscellaneous crew), Scott Stravitz (miscellaneous crew), Brenda K. Wachel (miscellaneous crew), Amy Eldridge (miscellaneous crew), Rick Peters (actor), Jim Michaels (producer), Darryl Levine (costume designer),
Genres: ,Actors: Kirk Alyn (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), John Elliott (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Tommy Farrell (actor), Tommy Farrell (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Plot: Columbia's 43rd serial finds Lex Luthor, secretly the Atom Man, blackmailing the city of Metropolis by threatening to destroy the entire community. Perry White, editor of "The Daily Planet", assigns Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson and Clark Kent/Superman to cover the story. Luthor invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.'(in order to keep viewers from trying this at home). Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom." With eight chapters remaining, the odds are high he will return. Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 "Avenging Waters," minus ol' Ken and his hoss Tarzan.
Keywords: 1950s, ambulance, archenemy, archive-footage, based-on-comic, character-name-in-title, cliffhanger, damsel-in-distress, dc-comics, dual-roleActors: Fred Aldrich (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Roy Butler (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Frank Ellis (actor),
Plot: Jor-El ('Nelson Leigh' (qv)), a scientist on the planet Krypton rockets his infant son to Earth just before Krypton explodes. The boy is found on Earth by a farmer, Eben Kent ('Ed Cassidy (I)' (qv)) and his wife, Martha ('Virginia Carroll' (qv)) and they name him Clark Kent ('Kirk Alyn' (qv)). When Clark grows up, his foster father asks him to use his amazing super powers only for good. The mild-mannered Clark gets a job on the Daily Planet as a reporter, and soon, as his alter-ego Superman (Kirk Alyn'), and soon tangles with The Spider Lady ('Carol Forman (I)' (qv)), who considers herself Queen of the Underworld. Meanwhile, a fragment from the planet Krypton reaches earth and falls in her possession. It is the only substance that can render Superman helpless.
Keywords: 1940s, adoption, b-movie, based-on-comic, big-city, character-name-in-title, dc-comics, doctor, dual-role, episodic