Embarrassed by the warm standing ovation from the Emmy audience, Clark faked a grimace and tapped his wristwatch. You've got to sit down. Through a jovial yet touching tribute, Clark spoke with a slur but embellished his appearance by gesturing with his arms and hands. He truly has been one of the greatest influences in my life.
Howard Berman , D-Calif. He made the San Fernando Valley his business home and played a vital role in our economic vibrancy. Clark also was a hugely successful TV producer. With his clean-cut good looks and low-key personality, Clark began hosting Bandstand in as a local show in Philadelphia.
His smooth style charmed young baby boomers. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also was a successful game show producer. His stroke sidelined him for the edition and left him with impaired speech, but he returned the following year and had appeared in subsequent years, with Seacrest taking a more prominent role.
Then 26, he was casual and nonthreatening, and his affable style caught on. ABC scheduled the show weekdays from p. Smoking and chewing gum were not allowed. His widow, Kari Clark , was 13 years his junior. Episodes he hosted on American Bandstand were among the first in which blacks and whites performed on the same stage and among the first where the live studio audience sat without racial segregation.
Singer Paul Anka claimed that "Bandstand" was responsible for creating a"'youth culture". Due to his perennial youthful appearance, Clark was often referred to as "America's Oldest Teenager.
In many of the groups, he introduced appeared at the 50th anniversary special to celebrate American Bandstand He noted during the special that American Bandstand was listed in the "Guinness Book of Records" as "the longest-running variety show in TV history.
His former television boss Bob Stewart , passed away, just two weeks after Clark, at age Was featured in the documentary Bowling for Columbine He was criticized for hiring poor, unwed mothers to work long hours in his chain of restaurants for little pay. The mother featured is shown to work over 80 hours per week and still unable to make her rent, then gets evicted, which results in her having to have her son stay at his uncle's house.
At that house the boy finds a gun and brings it to school, where he shoots another first-grader. In the documentary footage, Michael Moore , with cameraman in tow, approached Clark as he was pulling into his work parking space and attempted to question him about welfare policies that allow for those conditions. Moore tried to query him about the people he employed and the tax breaks he allegedly took advantage of, in employing welfare recipients; Clark refuses to answer any of Moore's questions, shutting the car door and driving away.
As a child, he kept a diary. In when he was eight years old--he wrote in it, "'I listened to the radio. Started seeing stage theater, for the first time, when he was age 13, such as: Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore. Appeared on the second-to-last episode as himself, in The Weird Al Show , where he did a countdown to the end of the show. The last game show he ever hosted was Winning Lines Appeared in the final episodes of Perry Mason , Police Squad!
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Screen Actors Guild Awards Memoriam My Relatives. While the show was not a success during its nearly three-month duration, Clark was one of the few personalities in television history on the air nationwide seven days a week. One of Clark's best-known guest appearances was in the final episode "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" of the original Perry Mason TV series, in which Clark was revealed to be the killer of an egomaniacal actor during the production of a television show.
He appeared as a drag-racing-strip owner in a episode of the procedural drama series Adam Clark's most humorous appearance was on an episode "Testimony of Evil" of Police Squad! Clark attempted to branch into the realm of soul music with the series Soul Unlimited in The series, hosted by Buster Jones, was a more risque and controversial imitator of the popular series Soul Train and alternated in the Bandstand time slot.
The series lasted for only a few episodes. Despite a feud between Clark and Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius, the two men later collaborated on several specials featuring black artists. The Bloopers franchise stemmed from the Clark-hosted and produced NBC Bloopers specials of the early s, inspired by the books, records albums and appearances of Kermit Schafer, a radio and TV producer who first popularized outtakes of broadcasts.
Dick Clark Presents. Clark also hosted various pageants from on CBS. He did a brief stint as announcer on The Jon Stewart Show in He also created and hosted two FOX television specials in called Challenge of the Child Geniuses , the last game show he hosted. Clark also produced the television series American Dreamers about a Philadelphia family in the early s whose daughter is a regular on American Bandstand.
The series ran from to Clark wrote, produced and starred in the film Killers Three , a Western drama that served as a promotional vehicle for Bakersfield country musicians Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens.
Clark also appears in interview segments of another film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , which was based on the "unauthorized autobiography" of Chuck Barris. Barris had worked at ABC as standards-and-practices executive during American Bandstand's run on that network. In the Dharma and Greg episode "Mission: Implausible", Greg is the victim of a college prank, and devises an elaborate plan to retaliate, part of which involves his use of a disguise kit; the first disguise chosen is that of Dick Clark.
During a fantasy sequence that portrays the unfolding of the plan, the real Clark plays Greg wearing his disguise. In one episode he plays himself at a Philadelphia diner, and in the other he helps Will Smith's character host bloopers from past episodes of that sitcoms. In , Clark branched out from hosting, producing Where The Action Is , an afternoon television program shot at a different locations every week featuring house band Paul Revere and the Raiders.
In , Clark began producing the highly-successful American Music Awards. In , Dick Clark Productions went public. Clark remained active in television and movie production into the s. Until recently, Salt Lake City, Utah had an airport location.
He was married three times. His first marriage was to Barbara Mallery in ; the couple had one son, Richard A. Clark, and divorced in ; He married Loretta Martin in ; the couple had two children, Duane and Cindy, and divorced in His third marriage, to Kari Wigton, whom he married in , lasted until his death. His death certificate noted that Clark had coronary artery disease at the time of his death.
In December , the year-old was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering what was initially termed a minor stroke. Although he was expected to be fine, it was latter announced that Clark would be unable to host his annual New Year's Rockin' Eve broadcast. Clark returned to the series the following year, but the dysarthria that resulted from the stroke rendered him unable to speak clearly for the remainder of his life.
On April 12, , Clark died from a fatal heart attack at the age of 82 while undergoing a transurethral resection procedure to treat an enlarged prostate.
Clark's family did not immediately decide whether to have a public memorial service, but stated "there will be no funeral". He was cremated on April 20, and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Following his death, former U.
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