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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Molly Movie
2023
Director
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
2020
Executive Producer, Director
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
2019
as Doug
A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.

Juanita
2019
Director
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
2017
as Robert Cochran
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
2017
as Detective Watkins
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
2016
as Senator Lister Rosewater
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
2015
as General Rilmen
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
2014
as McCullan
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Santorini Blue
2013
as Nick
An act of betrayal throws a young couple's marriage into jeopardy in this romantic drama featuring Richard Belzer and Ice-T.

Defendor
2009
as Roger Fairbanks
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
2009
as Silence
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
2009
as George
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
2007
as Self
A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

The Wire Odyssey
2007
as Self
A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

The Sentinel
2006
as Charlie Merriweather
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
2006
Director
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
2005
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
2004
as Abe Fielder
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.
2003
as Deke's Handsome Partner
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.
2003
Director
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
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
2001
Director
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
2000
as Jimmy
A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.

Task Force: Caviar
2000
Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.

Deliberate Intent
2000
as James Perry
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
2000
as Dean
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
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
2000
as Meldrick Lewis
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
2000
as Mr. Hubbard
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
1997
as Mr. Pool
Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.

The Prosecutors
1996
as Michael Hall
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
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
1995
as Hackney Transportist
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.

Soul Survivor
1995
as Busha
A young black man takes a job as a debt collector in Toronto's Jamaican community.

Rude
1995
as Reece
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
1994
as Bob Covington
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
1994
as Trevon
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
1993
as Master Chang
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
1992
as Detective Gilliam
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
1992
as Sgt. Mike Delaney
Prospective series pilot about a maverick, motorcycling insurance investigator who uses unorthodox methods to smoke out the truth behind every claim t...

Psychic
1992
as Spencer
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
1990
A woman that during the daytime is an insignificant librarian, at night becomes a fascinating mysterious dark lady. She uses the personal advertisemen...

Renegades
1989
as JJ
While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casual...

Renegades
1989
Stunts
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
1989
as Butch Fuller
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Iron Eagle II
1988
as Graves
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
1988
as Lee
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
1988
as Detective Morton
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
1987
as Moriarty
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
1987
as Mark Halstead
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
1987
as Black Gang Leader
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
1987
as Winston
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
1986
Special Effects
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
1985
as Reporter (uncredited)
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Technician (uncredited)
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
1985
as Technician
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
1985
as Ralph
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
1983
Special Effects
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
1983
as Dave
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
1982
as Perry
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
1982
as Michael
The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer.

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