Wallis Clark

• Born: Mar 02, 1882 in Exeter, England
• Died: Feb 14, 1961
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s-'40s
• Major Genres: Drama, Crime
• Career Highlights: Police Car 17, Star Reporter, Murder by Invitation
• First Major Screen Credit: Police Car 17 (1933)

Biography

British actor Wallis Clark was a fixture of American films from at least 1916, when he played Pencroft in the first cinemazation of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In talkies, Clark busied himself in utility roles as lawyers, city commissioners, foreign noblemen and doctors (he's the medico who warns Warner Baxter that he's courting heart failure in 1933's 42nd Street. During the mid-1930s, he was most often found in the "B" product of Columbia Pictures. In 1939, he was briefly seen as the poker-playing Yankee captain in Gone with the Wind. Wallis Clark's resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt enabled him to portray old Rough 'n' Ready in several films, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Jack London (1943). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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