Dane Clark

Dane Clark

actor, director

Dane Clark was born on Feb 18, 1912 in USA. Dane Clark's big-screen debut came with Money and the Woman directed by William K. Howard in 1940, strarring . Dane Clark is known for Riker directed by Bob Kelljan, Michael Shannon stars as Brice Landis and Josh Taylor as Frank Riker. The most recent award Dane Clark achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Dane Clark plays is Last Rites which will be released on Nov 18, 1988.

Dane Clark was born Bernard Elliot Zanville in Brooklyn, New York City, to Rose (Korostoff) and Samuel Zanville, who were Russian Jewish immigrants. He graduated from Cornell University and St. John's Law School (Brooklyn). When he had trouble finding work in the mid-1930s he tried boxing, baseball, construction, sales and modeling, among other jobs. From there he went into acting on Broadway ("Dead End", "Stage Door", "Of Mice and Men"), which finally brought him to Hollywood. He acted under his own name until 1943 when, as Dane Clark (a name he said was given him by Humphrey Bogart), he took the role of sailor Johnnie Pulaski in Warner's Convoi vers la Russie (1943), a wartime tribute to the Merchant Marine. He was a regular in World War II movies, playing the part of a submariner in Destination Tokyo (1943), an airman in Bombes sur Hong-Kong (1945) and a Marine in La route des ténèbres (1945).Though he co-starred with such luminaries as Bogart, Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Raymond Massey, it was his self-described "Joe Average" image that got him his parts: "They don't go much for the 'pretty boy' type [at Warner Brothers]. An average-looking guy like me has a chance to get someplace, to portray people the way they really are, without any frills." He was also proud of his role as Abe Saperstein, who founded the Harlem Globetrotters black basketball team, in Go Man Go (1954), a film he believed pioneered in opposing race hatred.

  • Birthday

    Feb 18, 1912
  • Place of Birth

    Brooklyn, New York, USA

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

Walk of Fame
1960
Television
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame

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