1. Dane Clark's date of birth is a matter of some dispute among different sources.
25 Facts About Dane Clark
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Dane Clark graduated from Cornell University in 1936 and earned a law degree in 1938 at St John's University School of Law in Brooklyn, New York, which was before its current building was constructed at St John's campus in Queens.
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Dane Clark's early acting experience included work with the Group Theatre in New York City.
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Dane Clark progressed from small Broadway parts to larger ones, eventually taking over the role of George from Wallace Ford in the 1937 production of Of Mice and Men.
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Dane Clark had an uncredited bit in The Glass Key at Paramount.
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Dane Clark got his big break when he was signed by Warner Bros.
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Dane Clark worked alongside some of his era's biggest stars, often in war movies such as Action in the North Atlantic, his breakthrough part, opposite Humphrey Bogart.
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Dane Clark was third billed in Destination Tokyo beneath Cary Grant and John Garfield, and in The Very Thought of You with Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker.
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Dane Clark had one of the leads in Hollywood Canteen, playing an actual role while most Warners stars made cameo appearances as themselves.
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Dane Clark had the lead in the 1944 short film I Won't Play with Janis Paige, which received the 1945 Academy Award for Best Short Subject.
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Dane Clark supported Morgan in God Is My Co-Pilot and Garfield in Pride of the Marines.
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Dane Clark supported Bette Davis and Glenn Ford in A Stolen Life and was promoted to top billing for Her Kind of Man, a crime film.
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Dane Clark followed it with That Way with Women, Deep Valley, and Embraceable You.
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Dane Clark went to United Artists for Without Honor, then back to Warner Bros.
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Dane Clark travelled to England to make Highly Dangerous and France for Gunman in the Streets.
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Dane Clark acted in the United Artists Western Fort Defiance.
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Dane Clark returned to Britain for The Gambler and the Lady, Murder by Proxy and Five Days, all for Hammer Films.
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Dane Clark played Peter Chambers in the short-lived radio program Crime and Peter Chambers, a half-hour show which aired from April 6 to September 7,1954.
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Dane Clark first appeared on television in the late 1940s, and after the mid-1950s worked much more in that medium than in feature films.
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Dane Clark returned to films for The Man Is Armed and Outlaw's Son.
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Dane Clark played John Wilbut, a man who some on the train believe to be John Wilkes Booth on the run from the assassination of Lincoln.
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Dane Clark guest starred on a number of television shows, including Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, Appointment with Adventure, CBS's Rawhide in the episode "Incident of the Night Visitor", and The Twilight Zone, in the episode "The Prime Mover".
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Dane Clark appeared seven times on the cop television show Police Story, always playing a Lieutenant but in different roles.
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Dane Clark died on September 11,1998, of lung cancer at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
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Dane Clark's remains were cremated and his ashes given to his widow.