Career
His first appearance in a major film was the British production in 1949, playing Constable Macrae, a role he would reprise in the 1957 follow-up, His early roles were all to a Scottish typecast, and he made 13 films (including The Maggie in 1954 and X the Unknown in 1956) portraying Scottish characters, before he was given the part of an English tugboat captain in 1958"s The Key. He appeared as McDougal in Ralph Thomas"s 1959 re-make of John Buchan"s The 39 Steps, which also starred Kenneth More as Richard Hannay. The last of his four films in that year was Charles Crichton"s The Battle of the Sexes, playing Andrew Darling, with Peter Sellers and Robert Morley heading the cast.
After playing Sir Alan in the 1960 film Tunes of Glory, he portrayed the Constable in Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, a 1961 film based on the novel by Eleanor Atkinson, which recounts the tale of the Skye Terrier who would not leave his master"s grave.
Clark briefly appeared on television, playing Jamie Language in "Whistle and I"ll Come", a 1961 episode of the British police series Number Hiding Place. After playing George Lockwood in the 1962 film A Pair of Briefs, Clark returned to television in 1963 as a Foreman in "Diversion to Danger", an episode of the Suspense anthology-style series.
He would remain on the small screen for the next six years, in such productions as The Troubleshooters and Doctor Finlay"s Casebook, also re-surfacing in Number Hiding Place, this time as Harry Armstrong in the 1963 episode "All Dead and Buried". In 1969, Clark made his final film, Ring of Bright Water, playing the Storekeeper in the film about otters which starred real-life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna.
Clark died in 1984 aged 76.
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