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Eugene Clark
Clark in 2024
Born	Anthony Eugene Clark (1951-12-03) December 3, 1951 (age 73) Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Other names	Eugene A. Clark Eugene Clarke
American football player 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
First-team All-Pac-8 (1974)

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.

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).

Acting

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

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', and the thriller Legend of the Mountain Witch.

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

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

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. ^ "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.
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.

External links

• Eugene Clark at IMDb

• 1955 births
• Living people
• African-American male actors
• American football offensive guards
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners
• Canadian football offensive linemen
• Canadian male film actors
• Canadian male television actors
• Canadian male voice actors
• Male actors from Los Angeles
• Players of American football from Los Angeles
• Players of American football from Tampa, Florida
• Players of Canadian football from Los Angeles
• Players of Canadian football from Tampa, Florida
• Riverside Polytechnic High School alumni
• Toronto Argonauts players
• UCLA Bruins football players