Clark Johnson

Clark Johnson

1954-09-10 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 63 Credits

Biography

Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954) is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in E.N.G. (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999), and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clark Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contri...

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Molly Movie

2023

Director

Directing

Raised in the wings of the theatre, it is perhaps no surprise that Molly Johnson was destined to become one of Canada’s greatest voices.

Percy

Percy

2020

Executive Producer, Director

6.7
Producing Directing

Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a ...

Tammy's Always Dying

Tammy's Always Dying

2019

as Doug

4.8
Acting

A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.

Juanita

Juanita

2019

Director

5.4
Directing

Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself a...

Magnum Opus

Magnum Opus

2017

as Robert Cochran

10.0
Acting

This spy thriller pits veteran-turned-artist, Daniel Cliff, against US intelligence, and secrets from his past lead to hellish journey of lies, betray...

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Brawl in Cell Block 99

2017

as Detective Watkins

7.0
Acting

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force...

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

2016

as Senator Lister Rosewater

9.0
Acting

Follows Elliot Rosewater, heir of a massive fortune controlled by the Rosewater Foundation, as he deals with the guilt surrounding his wealth. At the ...

Hyena Road

Hyena Road

2015

as General Rilmen

6.8
Acting

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality ...

Bird People

Bird People

2014

as McCullan

5.9
Acting

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Santorini Blue

Santorini Blue

2013

as Nick

3.3
Acting

An act of betrayal throws a young couple's marriage into jeopardy in this romantic drama featuring Richard Belzer and Ice-T.

Defendor

Defendor

2009

as Roger Fairbanks

6.4
Acting

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington...

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

2009

as Silence

5.0
Acting

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.

You Might As Well Live

You Might As Well Live

2009

as George

5.0
Acting

On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money ...

The Wire: The Last Word

The Wire: The Last Word

2007

as Self

1.5
Acting

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

The Wire Odyssey

The Wire Odyssey

2007

as Self

6.6
Acting

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel

2006

as Charlie Merriweather

6.1
Acting

Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the P...

The Sentinel

The Sentinel

2006

Director

6.1
Directing

Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the P...

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery

2005

Acting

Everybody's guilty of something and Detective Stephen Tree has to use his gut to figure if their guilt is worth his time. Tripping the Wire goes beyon...

The Limb Salesman

The Limb Salesman

2004

as Abe Fielder

5.0
Acting

Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of th...

S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T.

2003

as Deke's Handsome Partner

6.2
Acting

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough D...

S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T.

2003

Director

6.2
Directing

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough D...

On Their Knees

2001

as Uncle John Walker

2.0
Acting

Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not...

Boycott

Boycott

2001

Director

6.6
Directing

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

2000

as Jimmy

6.2
Acting

A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.

Task Force: Caviar

Task Force: Caviar

2000

2.0
Acting

Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.

Deliberate Intent

Deliberate Intent

2000

as James Perry

4.5
Acting

A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how...

Love Come Down

Love Come Down

2000

as Dean

5.2
Acting

Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a...

Fear of Fiction

2000

as Gary

Acting

This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a man and a woman, each of whom has a twin brother.

Homicide: The Movie

Homicide: The Movie

2000

as Meldrick Lewis

6.8
Acting

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, c...

Virtual Mom

Virtual Mom

2000

as Mr. Hubbard

5.0
Acting

Sometimes it takes something special to bring a mother and daughter together. For thirteen year-old Lucy and her mom, Holly, it took a little magic. O...

The Planet of Junior Brown

The Planet of Junior Brown

1997

as Mr. Pool

4.0
Acting

Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.

The Prosecutors

The Prosecutors

1996

as Michael Hall

Acting

Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cas...

Lulu

1996

Acting

This arty Canadian drama centers on a young Vietnamese woman who marries a petty thief she does not love so she can emigrate to Canada. The rest of he...

Nick of Time

Nick of Time

1995

as Hackney Transportist

6.2
Acting

An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.

Soul Survivor

Soul Survivor

1995

as Busha

Acting

A young black man takes a job as a debt collector in Toronto's Jamaican community.

Rude

Rude

1995

as Reece

4.5
Acting

This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window...

Drop Zone

Drop Zone

1994

as Bob Covington

5.7
Acting

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered ...

Final Round

Final Round

1994

as Trevon

2.5
Acting

After a recruiter sees him winning a bar fight, Tyler Verdiccio is kidnapped and thrown into an abandoned industrial complex which has been converted ...

Model by Day

Model by Day

1993

as Master Chang

2.3
Acting

Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.

The Finishing Touch

The Finishing Touch

1992

as Detective Gilliam

2.1
Acting

Sam Stone is a cop with personal as well as professional problems. Stone investigates a series of killings in the night club scene. His ex-wife, also ...

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder

1992

as Sgt. Mike Delaney

Acting

Prospective series pilot about a maverick, motorcycling insurance investigator who uses unorthodox methods to smoke out the truth behind every claim t...

Psychic

Psychic

1992

as Spencer

4.2
Acting

A serial killer is terrorizing a small college town. When a student begins to have psychic visions of the killer with clues as to who he is, he gives ...

Personals

Personals

1990

3.0
Acting

A woman that during the daytime is an insignificant librarian, at night becomes a fascinating mysterious dark lady. She uses the personal advertisemen...

Renegades

Renegades

1989

as JJ

5.3
Acting

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casual...

Renegades

Renegades

1989

Stunts

5.3

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casual...

The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Butch Fuller

6.9
Acting

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Iron Eagle II

Iron Eagle II

1988

as Graves

4.5
Acting

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear miss...

Colors

Colors

1988

as Lee

6.5
Acting

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enfor...

Hostage

Hostage

1988

as Detective Morton

1.0
Acting

After five hard years behind bars Bonnie Lee is still haunted by her past which hides a terrible secret and hunted by her father, a man desperate for ...

Blindside

Blindside

1987

as Moriarty

3.9
Acting

Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his t...

Nowhere to Hide

Nowhere to Hide

1987

as Mark Halstead

6.3
Acting

Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashe...

Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting

1987

as Black Gang Leader

6.9
Acting

When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a qui...

Wild Thing

Wild Thing

1987

as Winston

5.6
Acting

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of t...

The Fly

The Fly

1986

Special Effects

7.4

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a com...

Perry Mason Returns

Perry Mason Returns

1985

as Reporter (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

1985

as Technician (uncredited)

3.5
Acting

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...

Murder in Space

Murder in Space

1985

as Technician

4.8
Acting

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...

Starcrossed

Starcrossed

1985

as Ralph

5.1
Acting

An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight...

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

1983

Special Effects

7.0

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which lea...

Skullduggery

Skullduggery

1983

as Dave

2.4
Acting

Adam is cursed: one of his ancestors played a game and fell victim to a sorcerer or possibly Satan. The curse manifests through Adam and the game, mak...

Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters

1982

as Perry

4.2
Acting

Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. R...

Killing 'em Softly

Killing 'em Softly

1982

as Michael

Acting

The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer.

Mayday

Mayday

N/A

Acting

Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while ev...