Jack J. Clark
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Jack J. Clark (September 23, 1879 – April 12, 1947) was an American director and actor of the early motion picture industry.
Biography
Clark was born on September 23, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was persuaded to enter motion pictures in 1907 by Sidney Olcott of the New York-based Kalem Studios during the silent film era. Clark traveled through 24 countries with the film company becoming one of the first American film stars to film on foreign location. While in the Holy Land, Kalem Studios produced the first passion play, From the Manger to the Cross, casting Jack Clark as John the Apostle. Clark and co-star Gene Gauntier were married during the filming, in 1912. They divorced in 1918.[1][2]
During a three-year leave from the film industry in the early 1920s, Jack was instructor of dramatic arts at Villanova University. He organized a dramatic workshop and produced the mystical play Vision. About the same time he staged a pageant, Charity, with a cast of 600 persons, which established new records at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House. He also wrote and produced a dramatic musical pageant, Columbus, which, with a cast of more than 1000 was staged at the Philadelphia Academy of Music for the Knights of Columbus.
In 1929, Jack Clark married Francis Rose Musolf. They remained married until his death.[3]
Among Clark's plays were The Prince of Pilsen and 45 Minutes from Broadway. He acted in more than 200 films[3] including The Colleen Bawn (1911),[4] From the Manger to the Cross (1912),[5] The Shaughraun (1912),[6] The Last of the Mafia (1915), A Fool's Paradise (1916), Audrey (1916), Pajamas (1927), Love and Learn (1928), and Broadway Howdy (1929). Among the films he directed or produced were The Yankee Girl (1915) and The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915).[7][8]
Jack Clark died on April 12, 1947, in Hollywood, California.[3]
Partial filmography
1910
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
1911
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
1912
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
1913
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
|
|
1914
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
|
|
1915
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
|
|
1916
<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>
References
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ McGowan 2005, p. 28
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Template:Free access
- ↑ McGowan 2005, p. 128
- ↑ McGowan 2005, p. 132
- ↑ McGowan 2005, p. 133
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Sources
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Michel Derrien, Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil, TIR 2013. Template:ISBN Template:In lang