Biographies: Dick Clark - Actor

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An American actor, producer, and radio and television presenter, born on November 30, 1929, in New York, USA, as Richard Wagstaff Clark. He attended Syracuse University. Clark began working on several radio and television stations before joining the American radio station WFIL. He is best known for presenting one of the longest-running American television variety programs, American Bandstand. He served as CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He produced many works, including Killers Three (1968), and he participated as an actor in many works, including Jamboree! (1957) and Ben Casey (1965). Clark received many notable awards, including several Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died on April 18, 2012, in Santa Monica, California, USA, of a cardiac arrest.

• 23 March 2022
• Dalia Saad