Matt Clark Dead: Actor In Scores Of Films & TV Shows Spanning 50 Years Was 89 Matt Clark, a character actor with more than 100 film and TV credits spanning decades, died March 15 in Austin. He was 89. A family representative confirmed the news to Deadline but did not disclose the cause of death. Born on November 25, 1936, in Washington, Clark served in the Army before training at the HB Studio in New York under Herbert Berghof and William Hickey. He joined the Living Theatre and worked off-Broadway before transitioning to screen roles. His film debut came with Black Like Me (1964), followed by the Oscar-winning classic In the Heat of the Night (1967), starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. Clark’s career included notable collaborations with screen legends. In 1972, he appeared alongside Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson and Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. The following year, he starred with James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and with Burt Reynolds in White Lightning. He also shared the screen with Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Jeff Bridges in Hearts of the West (1975). Throughout the 1980s and beyond, Clark continued to appear in diverse projects. He reprised his role with Redford in Brubaker (1980), starred in Some Kind of Hero (1982), and appeared with Eastwood in Honkyytonk Man (1982). His later credits included Back to the Future III (1990), 42 (2013), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), which marked his final screen appearance. Clark also had a brief television role as a dim-witted co-worker of the titular star on the first season of The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995-96). He did not return for the show’s second season, which aired on NBC in 1996-97.#matt_clark #herbert_berghof #william_hickey #living_theatre #hb_studio
