Clark Johnson

Clark Johnson ( born September 10, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor, director and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Meldrick Lewis in the television series Homicide. He is also known by his stage name Clark ' Slappy ' Jackson, Clarque Johnson and J. Clark Johnson.

Life and career

Clark Johnson was born in September 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of an African American father and a mother Caucasians. The family eventually moved to Canada, where he attended Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He has three siblings, including the jazz musician Molly Johnson and the actress and singer Taborah Johnson. He also visited the Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Ottawa University in Ottawa, before finishing his studies at OCAD University. During his studies he played in the Canadian Football League some games, but then decided to prefer to do something in the film industry. He first started out as a special effects artist in films and television series before 1982, he received his first film roles in the maze of monsters. In the years of the 1980s he was among other roles in the films asphalt Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Iron Eagle II, Colors - engaged My Secret - Colours of violence and Ultraman. His television debut was Johnson in 1985 in the Canadian crime drama In the Heat of the Night as Jefferson.

His big break was the role of Detective Meldrick Lewis in the television series Homicide, which he held for all six seasons. For this role he received in 1999 a nomination at the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Throughout the series he acted in five episodes as a director. In between, he still took over the role of Hackney Transportist in John Badham's Thriller Time Management. From 1998 to 2000 he directed numerous episodes of Nikita, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The West Wing - The West Wing and New York Cops - NYPD Blue before in the TV movie Homicide: The Movie his old role as Detective Meldrick Lewis resumed. In each case from 2002 to 2008, he took over eight episodes of the series The Wire and in seven episodes of the series The Shield - The Shield the Director, taking in The Wire even in all ten episodes of the final season in the role of Augustus " Gus" Haynes was seen. For his production of the pilot episode of The Shield, he was nominated for the Emmy Awards 2001 in the category Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. The same approach he used ready in 2003 and 2006 in the films SWAT - The special unit and The Sentinel - Who can you trust, where he was involved as a director and the way each played minor roles? . In 2008, he starred in Charles Officer Nurse.Fighter.Boy the lead role as Silence, for which he was nominated at the 2011 Genie Awards in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. 2010 and 2011 he tried his hand at the pilot episodes of Memphis Beat and Lights Out sometimes as a television producer. Most recently, he acted in episodes of the series The Chicago Code, Lost Girl, Homeland, The Walking Dead and Breakout Kings as a director.

In 2013 he was cast for the lead role Gil John Biggs, a Senator from North Carolina, for the Amazon web series Alpha House.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2010: Memphis Beat (TV series, episode 1x01 )
  • 2010: Butterflies of Trip City
  • 2011: Lights Out (TV series, episode 1x01 )

Awards and nominations

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