Education
As a youth in Minnesota, Clark studied at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.
As a youth in Minnesota, Clark studied at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.
He began as a musician and actor in traveling tent shows, followed by a season with the Cincinnati Summer Opera. After participating in radio drama in Cincinnati, he arrived in New York during the 1940s, and his rich baritone voice quickly led to network radio roles. He had the title role in Nick Carter, Master Detective on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1943 to 1955.
The Nick Carter scripts were by Alfred Bester and others
Clark also played the district attorney in Front Page Farrell. Clark also a familiar voice on such programs as the weekday serial Mommie and the Men, the frontier serial adventure Wilderness Road, the World World War II dramas Words at War (1943-1945) and Soldiers of the Press (1942-1945), the quiz show Quick as a Flash, the soap opera Bright Horizon, the science fiction series 2000 Plus and Exploring Tomorrow, Lights Out, The Mysterious Traveler, The Kate Smith Hour, The March of Time, The Adventures of the Thin Manitoba and Norman Corwin Presents, playing opposite such performers as Fred Allen, Art Carney, Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.
Clark returned to the stage in his later years, replacing Jason Robards in the 1956 production of Eugene O"Neill"s Long Day"s Journey into Night. He was back on in the short run of Sidney Sheldon"s Roman Candle with Inger Stevens and Julia Meade.
