Eugene Clark (actor)


Eugene Clark is an American-Canadian film and television character actor.

Football career

Clark was born in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was an actor four years before he began playing college football and he was an all-conference offensive guard at UCLA. Named to the first All Star teams for both the Pacific-8 and the West Coast Athletic Conferences, Clark also received All Star All American Honourable Mention Laurels, played in the Hula Bowl and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the 1975 NFL Draft. While he did not appear in a National Football League game, he did play in the Canadian Football League for 20 games for the Toronto Argonauts.

Acting career

Clark has a lengthy résumé in American and Canadian television, with a prominent co-starring role as Sid Gomez in the 1990s science fiction s show William Shatner's Tek War.
He also appeared on Night Heat, ', The Twilight Zone, Side Effects, Tropical Heat, ', The L.A. Complex, and made a cameo in '. He also starred in the VH1 film ', ', and the thriller Legend of the Mountain Witch.
Clark played the role of Mufasa in the Ontario Broadway production of The Lion King for two years.
Clark's best-known theatrical film role was in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead as the head zombie, "Big Daddy".