{{short description|American actor}} {{other people|Harry Clark}} {{Infobox person | name = Harry Clark | image = Harry_Clark_in_The_Phil_Silvers_Show_1955.jpg | alt = | caption = Harry Clark in The Phil Silvers Show 1955 | birth_date = April 17, 1913 | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island | death_date = February 28, 1956 | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | parents = | known_for = }}
'''Harry Clark''' (April 17, 1913 – February 28, 1956) was an American actor.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news|title=Harry Clark, Actor on Stage and in TV|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/02/29/archives/harry-clark-actor-on-stage-and-in-tv.html|accessdate=2 December 2017|work=New York Times|date=February 29, 1956|page=31}}</ref><ref name=rs2>{{cite book|last=Cox|first=Jim|title=Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s – A Biographical Dictionary |publisher= McFarland & Company |date= 2007 |page=59 |ISBN= 978-0-7864-6086-1}}</ref>
Prior to his acting career, Clark was a physical education teacher, athlete, and factory worker who became involved with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union-sponsored revue ''Pins and Needles''<ref>{{cite news|title='Pins and Needles' People Go to Work|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4309800/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/|agency=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=June 16, 1940|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=44|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = February 13, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> in 1937, and its success encouraged him to pursue a career in acting. His Broadway credits include ''The Skin of Our Teeth'', ''One Touch of Venus'', ''Call Me Mister'', ''Kiss Me, Kate'', ''Wish You Were Here'', and ''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?''
From the early 1940s through the mid-1950s, Clark appeared in a string of B-movies. On television, he appeared on ''The United States Steel Hour'''s production of ''No Time for Sergeants'' and ''The Phil Silvers Show'', playing perhaps his best known role, as Mess Sgt. Stanley Sowici.
He died unexpectedly, while playing handball at the Young Men's Christian Association on West 63rd Street, near his home in Manhattan.<ref name=NYTobit/>
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==External links== * {{IBDB name|35426}} * {{IMDb name|0163997|Harry Clark}}
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