Cliff Clark

Cliff Clark

Birthday: 1889-06-09

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Cliff Clark (June 10, 1889 – February 8, 1953) was an American actor. He entered the film business in 1937 after a substantial stage career and appeared in over 200 Hollywood films. In the last years of his life, he also played in a number of television productions. Clark mostly played minor supporting roles. A specialty of his were policemen, inspectors and sheriffs. He appeared in a recurring role as Inspector Donovan in the Falcon film series at RKO Pictures during the 1940s.

Movies

The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

View Movie
Manpower
Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...

View Movie
Flaming Fury
Flaming Fury

A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover....

View Movie
Cavalry Scout
Cavalry Scout

Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territo...

View Movie
The Thirteenth Hour
The Thirteenth Hour

In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a ...

View Movie
Stranger on the Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s...

View Movie
Silver City
Silver City

Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry...

View Movie
Street of Chance
Street of Chance

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling constr...

View Movie
Jail House Blues
Jail House Blues

A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow...

View Movie
Bury Me Dead
Bury Me Dead

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket....

View Movie
The Stratton Story
The Stratton Story

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined t...

View Movie
Adventures of Gallant Bess
Adventures of Gallant Bess

Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and t...

View Movie
The Second Woman
The Second Woman

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coa...

View Movie
Blondie's Hero
Blondie's Hero

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of ...

View Movie
Toughest Man in Arizona
Toughest Man in Arizona

Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only s...

View Movie
The Falcon in Danger
The Falcon in Danger

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,00...

View Movie
The Falcon Strikes Back
The Falcon Strikes Back

The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into...

View Movie
The Falcon's Brother
The Falcon's Brother

A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from ass...

View Movie
The Falcon Out West
The Falcon Out West

When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learn...

View Movie
It's a Wonderful World
It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...

View Movie
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
The Falcon and the Co-Eds

The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another vic...

View Movie
Fingers at the Window
Fingers at the Window

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...

View Movie
Kid Glove Killer
Kid Glove Killer

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by ...

View Movie
Washington Melodrama
Washington Melodrama

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away....

View Movie
False Paradise
False Paradise

A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in...

View Movie
Philo Vance's Gamble
Philo Vance's Gamble

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning th...

View Movie
Dangerously They Live
Dangerously They Live

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents....

View Movie
The Wagons Roll at Night
The Wagons Roll at Night

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V...

View Movie
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Mr. Moto's Gamble

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-bl...

View Movie
Butch Minds the Baby
Butch Minds the Baby

Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her...

View Movie
While New York Sleeps
While New York Sleeps

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers)....

View Movie
Slightly Honorable
Slightly Honorable

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....

View Movie
The Sea Wolf
The Sea Wolf

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind....

View Movie
Warpath
Warpath

John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He fin...

View Movie
Post Office Investigator
Post Office Investigator

A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang....

View Movie
Raw Deal
Raw Deal

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic...

View Movie
Shockproof
Shockproof

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye o...

View Movie
The Cariboo Trail
The Cariboo Trail

A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country....

View Movie
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek

It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws ...

View Movie
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Miss Grant Takes Richmond

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the...

View Movie
Miracles for Sale
Miracles for Sale

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered....

View Movie
Honolulu
Honolulu

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to ...

View Movie
Gangs of Chicago
Gangs of Chicago

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th...

View Movie
Overland Telegraph
Overland Telegraph

Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Sela...

View Movie
Cross-Country Romance
Cross-Country Romance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....

View Movie
Ladies' Day
Ladies' Day

A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie...

View Movie
Inside Story
Inside Story

A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-f...

View Movie
Strange Alibi
Strange Alibi

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identit...

View Movie
A Yank on the Burma Road
A Yank on the Burma Road

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II Chi...

View Movie
The Patient in Room 18
The Patient in Room 18

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn...

View Movie
The Fuller Brush Girl
The Fuller Brush Girl

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation....

View Movie
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...

View Movie
Cocoanut Grove
Cocoanut Grove

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub....

View Movie
Vigilante Hideout
Vigilante Hideout

Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to realize j...

View Movie
He Couldn't Say No
He Couldn't Say No

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...

View Movie
They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....

View Movie
Within the Law
Within the Law

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge up...

View Movie
Calling Dr. Kildare
Calling Dr. Kildare

Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in ...

View Movie
The Men
The Men

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve...

View Movie
Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes...

View Movie
Chicken Wagon Family
Chicken Wagon Family

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...

View Movie
The Daredevil Drivers
The Daredevil Drivers

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r...

View Movie
Judge Hardy and Son
Judge Hardy and Son

Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest....

View Movie
Missing Evidence
Missing Evidence

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself up...

View Movie
Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave

A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of h...

View Movie
Dust Be My Destiny
Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...

View Movie
Henry Goes Arizona
Henry Goes Arizona

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch....

View Movie
Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a ...

View Movie
Kentucky
Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...

View Movie
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...

View Movie
You're Not So Tough
You're Not So Tough

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys ...

View Movie
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Who Is Hope Schuyler?

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, whi...

View Movie
Blue, White, and Perfect
Blue, White, and Perfect

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get ...

View Movie
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m...

View Movie
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph...

View Movie
In the Meantime, Darling
In the Meantime, Darling

A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house wit...

View Movie
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....

View Movie
Taxi, Mister
Taxi, Mister

The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer....

View Movie
Brother Rat and a Baby
Brother Rat and a Baby

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...

View Movie
Trouble Makers
Trouble Makers

Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at...

View Movie
Fort Apache
Fort Apache

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...

View Movie
Highways by Night
Highways by Night

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobs...

View Movie
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation....

View Movie
High Noon
High Noon

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

View Movie
Law of the Tropics
Law of the Tropics

Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United S...

View Movie
Brigham Young
Brigham Young

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp...

View Movie
Saddle Legion
Saddle Legion

A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side....

View Movie
Wagon Train
Wagon Train

In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight bu...

View Movie
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Henry Aldrich, Editor

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of myster...

View Movie
Borrowed Trouble
Borrowed Trouble

Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the confli...

View Movie
Flat Feat
Flat Feat

Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police...

View Movie
Flowing Gold
Flowing Gold

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and th...

View Movie
It Had to Be You
It Had to Be You

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality....

View Movie
Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

View Movie
A Dispatch from Reuters
A Dispatch from Reuters

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...

View Movie
Knute Rockne All American
Knute Rockne All American

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....

View Movie
Florian
Florian

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...

View Movie
Madame Spy
Madame Spy

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his si...

View Movie
Maryland
Maryland

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho...

View Movie
Women Without Names
Women Without Names

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of ...

View Movie
The Mummy's Tomb
The Mummy's Tomb

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all...

View Movie
Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds

A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proc...

View Movie
Deep Waters
Deep Waters

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard....

View Movie
I, Jane Doe
I, Jane Doe

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but l...

View Movie
Desperadoes of the West
Desperadoes of the West

A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fie...

View Movie
Desert of Lost Men
Desert of Lost Men

Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand dolla...

View Movie
USS VD: Ship of Shame
USS VD: Ship of Shame

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the resul...

View Movie
Keep 'Em Slugging
Keep 'Em Slugging

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for th...

View Movie
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Wild Bill Hickok Rides

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....

View Movie
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Wild Bill Hickok Rides

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....

View Movie
Western Union
Western Union

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires ...

View Movie
Honky Tonk
Honky Tonk

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his...

View Movie
Barbary Coast Gent
Barbary Coast Gent

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...

View Movie
Golden Hoofs
Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol...

View Movie
Double Alibi
Double Alibi

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....

View Movie
Honeymoon Deferred
Honeymoon Deferred

Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a ...

View Movie
Mokey
Mokey

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild....

View Movie
Slightly Dangerous
Slightly Dangerous

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...

View Movie
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the b...

View Movie
Time Out for Murder
Time Out for Murder

A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank ...

View Movie
The Missing Juror
The Missing Juror

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors....

View Movie
A Fugitive from Justice
A Fugitive from Justice

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the ru...

View Movie
Something to Shout About
Something to Shout About

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway...

View Movie
Destroyer
Destroyer

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to...

View Movie
The Secret Fury
The Secret Fury

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married...

View Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...

View Movie
Bride by Mistake
Bride by Mistake

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target...

View Movie
Homicide
Homicide

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the cas...

View Movie
Buck Privates Come Home
Buck Privates Come Home

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan g...

View Movie
Babes on Broadway
Babes on Broadway

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any ch...

View Movie
The Sound of Fury
The Sound of Fury

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal....

View Movie
Invisible Stripes
Invisible Stripes

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....

View Movie
Powder River Rustlers
Powder River Rustlers

Powder River Rustlers is a western film directed by Philip Ford in 1949. The railroad is coming and ...

View Movie
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Nine Lives Are Not Enough

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions....

View Movie
Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith, American

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a...

View Movie
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross

Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals....

View Movie
Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar ...

View Movie
Mountain Music
Mountain Music

Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows ...

View Movie
Maisie Goes to Reno
Maisie Goes to Reno

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife....

View Movie
Secret Enemies
Secret Enemies

FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate huntin...

View Movie
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Jiggs and Maggie in Court

Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon ...

View Movie
Hollow Triumph
Hollow Triumph

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate resul...

View Movie
The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make goo...

View Movie