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David Clarke is a Actor American born on 30 august 1908
David Clarke (30 August 1908 – 18 April 2004) was an American Broadway and motion picture actor.
A native of Chicago and graduate of Butler University, Clarke was most well known for his film noir roles as a character actor.
He lived in Belmont, Ohio for several years until he sold his house and moved to Arlington, Virginia to be with his daughters. He later died in Virginia from pneumonia on April 18, 2004.
He was married to Nora Dunfee, with whom he had two daughters.
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A native of Chicago and graduate of Butler University, Clarke was most well known for his film noir roles as a character actor.
He lived in Belmont, Ohio for several years until he sold his house and moved to Arlington, Virginia to be with his daughters. He later died in Virginia from pneumonia on April 18, 2004.
He was married to Nora Dunfee, with whom he had two daughters.
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The New Protocol (2008)
, 1h30Directed by Thomas Vincent
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Clovis Cornillac, Marie-Josée Croze, Dominique Reymond, Gilles Cohen, Stéphane Hillel, Carole Richert
Roles American Journalist
Rating60%
Raoul Kraft est un homme séparé et gérant une exploitation forestière. Un jour, son fils Franck décède après une sortie de route l'ayant précipité dans un ravin. Une jeune femme, Diane, l'informe que Franck participait à des essais cliniques pour un nouveau médicament. Après avoir refusé de lui fournir un échantillon du produit en question, la pharmacie de Raoul est fouillée mais les cambrioleurs n'emportent rien car Raoul avait les pilules de son fils avec lui. Il se rend à Paris et rencontre le Professeur Pleynel du laboratoire Nextys, qui avait travaillé sur ces essais. Le professeur rejette tout effet secondaire. Raoul retrouve Diane, expulsée d'une conférence de Louise Verneuil, de la société Hexcelor, où elle a accusé cette dernière d'avoir pratiqué des essais cliniques sur des populations d'Afrique et où de nombreux décès furent constatés.
Hikers in Saint-Tropez (2008)
, 1h42Directed by Philippe Harel
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes La provence, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, Aviation films
Actors Karin Viard, Géraldine Pailhas, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Elbaz, Philippe Harel, Cyrielle Clair
Roles un touriste américain
Rating46%
Dix ans après leurs vacances en Corse, Mathieu et son frère Louis tiennent un magasin de photocopies à Paris, Cora est mariée à Jean-Jacques, un homme divorcé qui passe toutes ses vacances avec sa sœur à Pornic, et Nadine cherche encore le grand amour mais doit se contenter de rencontres furtives avec Hervé, qui est marié et a des enfants. Tous les quatre décident de repartir en vacances ensemble sur la Côte d'Azur. Le premier jour, ils visitent Saint-Tropez. En soirée, Mathieu s'attarde et retrouve Éric, le guide que lui et les autres avaient connu en Corse dix ans auparavant. Éric, heureux de le revoir propose bientôt à Mathieu et au reste de la bande d'être à nouveau leur guide. Ceux-ci découvrent à quel point il s'est enrichi, mais Éric cache bien des choses.
Cutting Class (1990)
, 1h31Directed by Rospo Pallenberg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Jill Schoelen, Donovan Leitch, Martin Mull, Nancy Fish
Roles Crusty Old Man
Rating45%
The plot revolves around the return of Brian Woods (Leitch), a "problem teen." He has just been released from a mental hospital; he was admitted after the suspicious death of his father, who crashed and died while driving a car with cut brakes. He falls in love with classmate Paula Carson (Jill Schoelen), but the local basketball star Dwight Ingalls (Brad Pitt) is already Paula's boyfriend. Meanwhile, the lecherous school principal also seeks Paula's affections. Then horrible murders start happening with no one certain of the identity of the culprit. The main suspects are Dwight, whose control of his anger has never been perfect; Woods, who may not have been fully cured at the sanitarium; and the principal, who seems to stop at nothing in his attempts to bed Paula.
The Front (1976)
, 1h35Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films about films, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Political films
Actors Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Remak Ramsay
Roles Hubert Jackson
Rating72%
In the early 1950s, in New York City, restaurant cashier and small-time bookie Howard Prince (Woody Allen) has a friend who writes for television. Because the friend, Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) has been blacklisted, he asks Howard to sign his name to the TV scripts.
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about racism, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Harry Belafonte, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters, Richard Bright
Roles (uncredited)
Rating73%
David Burke (Ed Begley) is a former policeman who was ruined when he refused to cooperate with state crime investigators. He has asked hard-bitten, racist, ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) to help him rob an upstate bank, promising him $50,000 if the robbery is successful. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram (Belafonte), a nightclub entertainer who doesn’t want the job but who is addicted to gambling and is in debt.
, 1h26Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Bob Holt
Roles Gino
Rating58%
George Fowler (Steve McQueen) shows himself as an ex-football hero. He finds himself slowly drawn into the world of gangsters. With the gang in need of just another $50, George asks his ex-girlfriend, Ann, for a check in that amount, supposedly for her brother Gino. The plan starts to unravel when she sees Gino coming out of a restaurant across the street from the bank. When questioned about it, George later reveals he's involved with robbing the bank. She writes "Warning" and beneath that "you will be robbed!" with lipstick on a bank window, but the bank takes it as a joke. As the day of the heist approaches, tensions within the gang increase with no one trusting anyone. The robbers, having seen the lipstick warning, burst into George's and Gino's apartment that night and demand to know who talked to the girl about the robbery. Gino breaks about his sister's talking to George. George goes to her apartment with the gang and talks her into going to Chicago. Gino and George go to a park and wait. While Willie and John are taking her down the fire escape, John gets fidgety and hurls her off the escape down to the street below. They return to George and Gino, saying nothing about the murder. The next day, the robbery is attempted as planned. Meanwhile, the bank has moved the switchboard, previously inside the bank, downstairs to what seems to be a better control room. The robbers, who were planning to disable the switchboard, are unaware of this move. John distrusts George and compels Willie to drive, instead of George, who will now be inside robbing the bank even though it's his first time on any illegal job. The robbery goes as planned, until George can't find the switchboard they wanted to disable. The switchboard downstairs calls the police and they send a squad car over to the bank. When the police arrive, the robbery goes wrong. John is killed while trying to escape with a hostage and Gino commits suicide in the vaults. Willie flees with the car, leaving his partners behind. George gets shot in the leg. He tries to escape with a female hostage, the woman's husband offering himself instead. As the wife is in his headlock, his arm aiming the gun at her husband, she says: - It's no use, he's vicious. Realizing just how far he went, George relaxes his grip and falls to the ground, muttering how he isn't 'vicious'. George is taken away, his last sight looking out the bars of the car.
Edge of the City (1957)
, 1h25Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee, Val Avery
Roles Wallace
Rating71%
Young drifter Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes) arrives at the waterfront on the west side of Manhattan, seeking employment as a longshoreman, and giving his name as "Alex North." He goes to work in a gang of stevedores headed by Charlie Malik (Jack Warden) a vicious bully, and is befriended by Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), who also supervises a stevedore gang. Malik resents blacks in positions of authority, and is antagonized when Axel goes to work for Tommy.
The Narrow Margin (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Don Beddoe, Queenie Leonard
Roles Joseph Kemp
Rating75%
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner are assigned to protect a mob boss's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She is also carrying a payoff list that belonged to her murdered husband. On the way to pick her up, Brown bets his partner and friend, Sergeant Gus Forbes (Don Beddoe), what she will be like: "She's the sixty cent special. Cheap. Flashy. Strictly poison under the gravy."
Only the Valiant (1951)
, 1h45Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney, Jr., Neville Brand
Roles guardhouse sentry (uncredited)
Rating64%
Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low-point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command.
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
, 1h9Directed by John Huston, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick, John Dierkes
Roles Corporal by Campfire (uncredited)
Rating70%
Ce film décrit la guerre de sécession vue par un jeune idéaliste, qui rejoint l'armée nordiste.
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
, 1h32Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Steven Geray, Gordon Gebert
Roles Mechanic
Rating68%
Viktoria Kowalska (Valentina Cortese) has lost her home and her husband in the German occupation of Poland, and has been imprisoned in the concentration camp at Belsen. She befriends another prisoner, Karin Dernakova (Natasha Lytess), who dreams of reuniting with her young son Christopher (Gordon Gebert), who was sent to live in San Francisco with a wealthy Aunt. Karin dies shortly before the camp can be liberated, and Viktoria, seeing a way to a better life, uses Karin's papers to assume her identity. After the camp is liberated, she is interviewed by Major Marc Bennett (William Lundigan), who gets her a place in a camp for persons displaced by the war. She writes to Karin's Aunt Sophia in San Francisco, but receives a cable from Sophia's lawyers that she has died.
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
, 1h40Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, John Agar, George Tyne, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, James Brown
Roles Wounded Marine (uncredited)
Rating69%
Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his squad, particularly the combat replacements, for the rigorous training he puts them through. He is especially despised by Private Peter Conway (John Agar), the arrogant, college-educated son of an officer, Colonel Sam Conway under whom Stryker served and admired, and Private Al Thomas (Forrest Tucker), who blames him for his demotion.
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
, 1h52Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire
Roles Mr. Atkinson (Railroad Man) (uncredited)
Rating77%
When criminal mastermind Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) is released from prison after seven years, he immediately goes to see a bookie named Cobby (Marc Lawrence) in an unnamed Midwest river city, who arranges a meeting with Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern), a high-profile lawyer. Emmerich listens with interest to Doc's plan to steal jewelry worth a million dollars or more. Doc needs $50,000 to hire three men—a "box man" (safecracker), a driver, and a "hooligan"—to help him pull off the caper. Emmerich agrees to provide the money, then suggests that he (not one or more fences) assume the responsibility for disposing of the loot.
Woman in Hiding (1950)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Ida Lupino, Tony Curtis, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, John Litel
Roles Moyer (uncredited)
Rating68%
Deborah Chandler Clark watches police drag a North Carolina river for her body. She recounts the events that brought her to this, beginning when her father, a mill owner, disapproved of a romance between Deborah and the mill's general manager, Seldon Clark.
The Gunfighter (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Verna Felton
Roles Second Brother (uncredited)
Rating76%
A young, reckless cowboy named Eddie (Richard Jaeckel) deliberately provokes an argument with the notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck). Ringo is widely known as the fastest draw in the West, making him the perpetual target of every young gunslinger eager to become famous as "the man who shot Ringo". When Eddie ignores Ringo's warnings and draws his weapon, Ringo has no choice but to kill him. Eddie's three brothers pursue Ringo as he leaves town, seeking revenge, but Ringo ambushes them, takes their guns, and drives off their horses, leaving them to walk back to town.