Clark Johnson
A man of great talent and skill.
The following information has been
collected from a number of sources please report any inaccuracies to me
Most well known for his role as Meldrick
Lewis on "Homicide: Life On The Streets" Clark has a wide range of credits
as both an actor and a director. He's also credited with having done voice
on "Hammerman", special effects work on "The Dead Zone", and stunt work
on "Nightstick". The so called "movie stars" pale in comparison to the
abilities of an actor like Clark.
As Meldrick he has made us laugh
and cry. Meldrick's great sense of humor wouldn't have been nearly as amusing
had it not been for Clark's delivery of those lines, and the emotion of
some of his more tortured moments wouldn't have been nearly as convincing
had it not been for Clark's ability. It is the respect and admiration I
have for Clark's work that has prompted me to create this web site.
~ Further Details ~
Actor - filmography
Project: On Their Knees (2001)
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Project: Boycott (2001) (TV)
Role: Emory Jackson
Summary: A 1955 bus boycott leads
to a landmark victory for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil
rights movement. 120 minutes- PG, USA, 2001, (CC), In Stereo, Adult language.
Directed by Clark Johnson and starring Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard,
CCH Pounder Carmen Ejogo, Reg E. Cathey, Brent Jennings.
Project: Disappearing Acts (2000)
(TV)
Role: Jimmy
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Project: Love Come Down (2000)
Role: Dean
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Project: Task Force: Caviar (2000)
(TV)
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Project: Deliberate Intent (2000)
(TV)
Role: James Perry
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Project: Homicide: The Movie (2000)
(TV)
Role: Det. Meldrick Lewis
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Project: Fear of Fiction (1999)
Role: Gary
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Project: Have Mercy (1999)
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Project: The Planet of Junior Brown
aka Junior's Groove (1997)
Role: Mr. Pool
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Project: The Prosecutors (1996) (TV)
Role: Michael
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Project: Lulu (1996/I)
Role: Clive
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Project: Nick of Time (1995)
Role: Hackney Transportist
Summary: (as J. Clark Johnson)
Project: Soul Survivor (1995) aka
Survivant dans l'âme (1995)
Role: Busha
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Project: Rude (1995)
Role: Reece
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Project: Drop Zone (1994)
Role: Bob Covington
Summary: A small role as one of the men trying to tell it straight to the hero who knows better (as they always do in action films). Given Kyle Secor's great role in this film as the adoreable wild boy 'Swoop' this movie is well worth checking out for Homicide fans.
Project: Silent Witness: What a Child
Saw (1994) (TV)
Role: Glenn
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Project: Model by Day (1994) (TV)
Role: Master Chang
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Project: Blood Brothers (1993) aka
Native Strangers (1993)
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Project: Final Round (1993) aka Human
Target (1993/II)
Role: Trevon
Summary: A man has only his fists
to use as weapons when he becomes the human prey in a deadly hunt. 90 minutes-
R, USA, 1993, Video, In Stereo, Adult language, adult situations, nudity,
violence. Directed by George Erschbamer and starring Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen
Kinmont, Anthony De Longis Clark Johnson, Stephen Mendel, Arne Olsen
Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) aka Homicide aka H:LOTS
Role: Detective Meldrick Lewis
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Project: The Finishing Touch (1992)
Role: Detective Gilliam
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Project: Coopersmith (1992) (TV)
Role: Mike Delaney
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Project: Psychic (1992)
Role: Spencer
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Project: "Hammerman" (1991) TV Series
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Project: Polly: Comin' Home! (1990)
(TV)
Role: Young Doctor
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Project: Personals (1990) (TV)
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Project: "E.N.G." (1989) TV Series
Role: Clarke Roberts
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Project: Renegades (1989)
Role: JJ
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Project: The Women of Brewster Place
(1989) (TV)
Role: Butch
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Project: Iron Eagle II (1988) aka
Iron Eagle II: The Battle Beyond the Flag (1988)
Role: Graves
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Project: Colors (1988)
Role: Lee
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Project: Hostage (1988) (TV) aka
Against Her Will (1988) (TV)
Role: Detective Morton
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Project: Mr. Nice Guy (1987)
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Project: Nowhere to Hide (1987)
Role: Mark Halstead
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Project: Wild Thing (1987)
Role: Winston
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Project: Adventures in Babysitting
(1987) aka Night on the Town, A (1987) (UK: TV title)
Role: Gang Leader
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Project: Blindside (1986)
Role: Moriarty
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Project: Doing Life (1986) (TV) aka
Truth or Die (1986) (TV)
Role: T.V. Reporter
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Project: Courage (1986) (TV)
Role: 2nd Agent
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Project: "Hot Shots" (1986) TV Series
Role: Al Pendleton
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Project: Rockabye (1986) (TV)
Role: Medical Examiner
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Project: "Night Heat" (1985) TV Series
Role: Det. Dave Jefferson (1986-1988)
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Project: Murder in Space (1985) (TV)
Role: Technician
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Project: Murder: By Reason of Insanity
(1985) (TV) aka My Sweet Victim (1985) (TV)
Role: Technician
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Project: Starcrossed (1985) (TV)
Role: Ralph
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Project: Seduced (1985) (TV)
Role: Messenger
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Project: Skullduggery (1983) aka
Warlock (1983)
Role: Dave
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Project: Mazes and Monsters (1982)
(TV) aka Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters (1982) (TV)
Role: Perry
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Project: Killing 'em Softly (1982)
aka Man in 5A (1982)
Role: Michael
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Director - filmography
Project: Boycott (2001) (TV)
Role: Director
Summary: A 1955 bus boycott leads
to a landmark victory for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil
rights movement. 120 minutes- PG, USA, 2001, (CC), In Stereo, Adult language.
Directed by Clark Johnson and starring Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard,
CCH Pounder Carmen Ejogo, Reg E. Cathey, Brent Jennings.
Project: "Beat, The" (2000) TV Series
(episode "Every Beat of My Heart" 5/2/2000)
Role: Director
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Project: "City of Angels" (2000)
TV Series (episode "Unhand Me")
Role: Director
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Project: "Third Watch" (1999) TV
Series
Role: Director
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Project: "West Wing, The" (1999)
TV Series
Role: Director
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Project: "Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit" (1999) TV Series (episode "Sophomore Jinx" 10/25/1999)
Role: Director
Summary: Laura Rutledge, a girl
who played hostess to prospective athletes is found dead on campus, the
victim of a struggle and fall downstairs. The police investigate possible
inproprieties in her relationships with the school sports stars. It turns
out the basketball star had raped her previously, and her parents, as well
as school officials, encouraged her not to press charges. David Mosley,
a star player from the ghetto who is passing up an NBA berth to attend
college and his team members are examined as possible suspects. Mosely
was with Laura the night she died, and resists the Detectives attempt to
question him. He confesses to having sex with Laura that night, but not
killing her. He says that someone called her and afterwards she was upset.
Detective Benson questions Laura's roomate, and sees a note with "Heathcliff"
and a phone number, which turns out to be for the Plaza Hotel. Laura's
professor, Dr. Rousseau is also investigated, his alibi is that he was
with his Teaching Assistant Annette until midnight. But "Heathcliff" turns
out to be Rousseau, and Annette admits she was asked to lie for the Professor.
It turns out Rousseau and Laura were romantically involved and the fight
at the top of the stairs, according to Rousseau, was him trying to keep
her from leaving.
Project: "Fast Track" (1997) TV Series
Role: Director
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Project: "La Femme Nikita" (1997)
TV Series
Role: Director
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Project: "NYPD Blue" (1993) TV Series
Role: Director
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Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) TV Series (episode #52 "Map of the Heart")
Role: Director
Summary: Frank Pembleton and Tim
Bayliss investigate a man who died after taking steroids while he had cancer.
The main suspect is a cartographer working for the NSA who stands to inherit
a great deal of money as a result of the mans death. John Munch worries
about getting into trouble over a VCR from Arson Mike Kellerman sold him.
Mike Kellerman tries to discover the identity of 'the lunch bandit'.
Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) TV Series (episode #67 "Betrayal")
Role: Director
Summary: A girl is found dead and
abused by the side of the interstate, Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss investigate.
JH Brodie goes to an interview with a new potential roommate. Mike Kellerman
goes to court. Frank and Tim disagree Frank gets the mother to tell him
the story but they won't be able to get a murder one conviction. Mike is
unhappy with the outcome of the case. Tim tries to come to cope with the
child abuse he experienced in his past and he tells Frank he doesn't want
to be partners anymore.
Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) TV Series (episode #71 "Valentine's Day")
Role: Director
Summary: John Munch thinks a dead
student committed suicide, JH Brodie suggests that a classmate of his named
Schack should be a suspect. Tim Bayliss and Mike Kellerman try to find
links between two bombings that killed people. Schack attacks Brodie and
Brodie finds a way to get him to confess. Frank agrees to have his daughter
baptized. Mike Kellerman discovers the bombing victims were connected through
the death of the Korean grocer who was murdered by a man who worked for
Luther Mahoney. Mike Kellerman and Tim Bayliss suspect that there will
be more bombs and that one will be at the courthouse where Meldrick and
Julianna are waiting to meet with Judge Aandahl and Danvers, both of who
were associated with the Korean grocer case. Frank Pembleton is late to
the baptism and his wife tells him she is leaving him for a while.
Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) TV Series (episode #95 "Full Court Press")
Role: Director
Summary: John Munch and Stu Gharty
investigate the death of high-school athlete. Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss's
have a pager number which is their only lead to a potential suspect, a
pager number and Tim Bayliss has a plan to apphrend their suspect. Mike
Kellerman and Laura Ballard get a case involving a drug dealer that Mike
Kellerman doesn't want to work. The victim is one of Georgia Rae Mahoney's
lieutenants. There are four other unsolved murders in the last two weeks
where the victims were members of the Mahoney organization. Frank Pembleton
and Tim Bayliss apprehend the wrong suspect, but get a commendation because
the suspect was trafficking 200 Kg of narcotics. Meldrick Lewis uses information
from Falscone to have members of the Mahoney organization under surveillance
and he might be involved in the murders. Mike Kellerman finds out he won't
have to give the FBI a tape of his conversation with Judge Gibbons and
the FBI is about to move on Judge Gibbons. The body count of the Mahoney
organization reaches ten and Meldrick Lewis is near the scene.
Project: "Homicide: Life on the Street"
(1993) TV Series (episode #104 "The Twenty Percent Solution")
Role: Director
Summary: A woman gives Homicide
a video tape where her husband says his literary agent is responsible for
his murder. Laura Ballard and Stu Gharty invetigate but there is no body
or crime scene. John Munch and Tim Bayliss investigate the death of an
elderly woman that occurred during a break-in that might not be a
homicide. John Munch wants to leave for his weekend rendezvous with Billie
Lou. Laura Ballard and Stu Gharty find evidence that a crime was committed
and it becomes a red ball. The literary agent and his accomplice are arrested
but Danvers won't guarantee a conviction. Paul Falsone asks Laura Ballard
if she would like to go out Saturday night. The jury comes back and justice
is done.
Project: "African Skies" (1991) TV
Series
Role: Director
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Notable TV guest appearances
Project: "The Hoop Life" (1999) episode:
"Rookie" (episode # 1.4) 7/18/1999
Role: "Ray Hamilton"
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Project: "Cold Squad" (1998) episode:
"Jane Doe: Part 1" (episode # 2.1)
Role: "Det. Derrick Clark"
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Project: "Forever Knight" (1992)
episode: "Can't Run Can't Hide" 11/14/1994
Role: "Casey Brooks"
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Project: "L.A. Law" (1986) episode:
"Silence Is Golden" (episode # 8.17) 4/14/1994
Role: "Mr. McNeil"
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Project: "E.N.G." (1989) episode:
"Cutting Edge" (episode # 5.14) 1994
Role: "Clarke Roberts
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Project: "Katts and Dog" (1988) episode:
"Bang, Bang You're Dead" (episode # 5.4) 1992
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Project: "Sweating Bullets" (1991)
episode: "The Mariah Connection" (episode # 2.1) 9/9/1991
Role: "Chaffey"
Summary: "This Canadian show, a
humourous action-mystery tv series aired between 1991-1993 on CBS and is
known in Europe as Tropical Heat. Rob Stewart stars as an ex-cop
turned beach bum private investigator Nick Slaughter with Carolyn Dunn
as his assistant Sylvie Girard. Living and working on Key Mariah, a fictional
tropical island near the Florida Keys."
Project: "Katts and Dog" (1988) episode:
"Hard Choice" (episode # 3.13) 1990
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Project: "E.N.G." (1989) episode:
"All Things Betray Thee" (episode # 1.16) 1990
Role: "Clarke Roberts"
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Project: "War of the Worlds" (1988)
episode: "Unto Us A Child Is Born" (episode # 1.18) 2/20/1989
Role: "Young"
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Project: "My Secret Identity" (1988)
episode: "The Track Star" (episode # 1.4) 10/24/1988
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Project: "Katts and Dog" (1988) episode:
"Hostages" (episode # 1.7) 1988
Role: "Lennie"
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Project: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
(1985) episode: "Man on the Edge" (episode # 2.3) 2/7/1987
Role: "Officer Stoker"
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Project: "The Littlest Hobo" (1979)
episode: "Arrivederci Roma" (episode # 6.7) 10/25/1984
Role: "Mr. Turner"
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Project: "The Littlest Hobo" (1979)
episode: "East Side Angels" (episode # 2.16) 2/26/1981
Role: "Jason Davis"
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Bibliography
The Internet Movie Data Base
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TV Tombe
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TV Now
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