Clark Johnson
Also Known As: Clark 'Slappy Jackson, J. Clark Johnson, Clarque Johnson
Biography: Clark Johnson (born September 10, 1954) is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in E.N.G. (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999), and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clark Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: September 10, 1954
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Gender: Male
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Lulu
Overview: This arty Canadian drama centers on a young Vietnamese woman who marries a petty thief she does not love so she can emigrate to Canada. The rest of her family moves there too, but none of them find a particularly happy life, though Lucky, Lulu's husband, would do anything to insure his wife's happiness, even if it is self-destructive.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-24
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The Women of Brewster Place
Overview: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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Renegades
Overview: Buster McHenry is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm, an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster is after, they team up.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Nowhere to Hide
Overview: Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-17
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Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder
Overview: Prospective series pilot about a maverick, motorcycling insurance investigator who uses unorthodox methods to smoke out the truth behind every claim that crosses his desk, and here looks into a life insurance claim when the wife of a second-rate race car driver appears to have died in an accident.
Genres: Action Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-31
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Personals
Overview: A woman that during the daytime is an insignificant librarian, at night becomes a fascinating mysterious dark lady. She uses the personal advertisements on the newspapers to obtain appointments with men then kills them. These murders last until the wife of one victim decides to investigate. Written by Paola Vaccari
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-28
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Defendor
Overview: A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-12
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Adventures in Babysitting
Overview: When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris' friend Brenda. Soon, Brad's buddy Daryl is involved, and the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians and much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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Killing 'em Softly
Overview: The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Wild Thing
Overview: A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Model by Day
Overview: Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-10
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Colors
Overview: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Fear of Fiction
Overview: This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a man and a woman, each of whom has a twin brother.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-13
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On Their Knees
Overview: Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not change that, but it will give them the opportunity to laugh and learn.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Perry Mason Returns
Overview: When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Overview: Everybody's guilty of something and Detective Stephen Tree has to use his gut to figure if their guilt is worth his time. Tripping the Wire goes beyond the classic whodunnit. It's a story of loyalty, betrayal and the secrets people will die for - or kill for - to protect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-19
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Mazes and Monsters
Overview: Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-27
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Santorini Blue
Overview: An act of betrayal throws a young couple's marriage into jeopardy in this romantic drama featuring Richard Belzer and Ice-T.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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The Wire Odyssey
Overview: A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-20
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The Wire: The Last Word
Overview: A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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The Sentinel
Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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The Limb Salesman
Overview: Gabriel Goode is the Limb Salesman, a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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Soul Survivor
Overview: A young black man takes a job as a debt collector in Toronto's Jamaican community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-12
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Overview: A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Psychic
Overview: A serial killer is terrorizing a small college town. When a student begins to have psychic visions of the killer with clues as to who he is, he gives this information to the police - only to find that he himself is suspected of committing the murders.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-03
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The Planet of Junior Brown
Overview: Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-06
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The Prosecutors
Overview: Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-02
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Skullduggery
Overview: Adam is cursed: one of his ancestors played a game and fell victim to a sorcerer or possibly Satan. The curse manifests through Adam and the game, making him attend strange amateur theatre where immensely talentless people try to do farce and a janitor wanders around with a game of Tic-Tac-Toe on his back.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Bird People
Overview: An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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The Finishing Touch
Overview: Sam Stone is a cop with personal as well as professional problems. Stone investigates a series of killings in the night club scene. His ex-wife, also a cop, goes undercover to find the killer and Stone is faced with a double problem: keeping her alive and catching the killer before another woman is killed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-16
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Final Round
Overview: After a recruiter sees him winning a bar fight, Tyler Verdiccio is kidnapped and thrown into an abandoned industrial complex which has been converted into the arena. Along with his lover, Jordan, and another kidnapped man, Verdiccio is hunted by mercenaries in a televised death duel which is the main event for a multi-million dollar gambling racket.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-06
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Blindside
Overview: Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Overview: Follows Elliot Rosewater, heir of a massive fortune controlled by the Rosewater Foundation, as he deals with the guilt surrounding his wealth. At the same time, young lawyer Norman Mushari attempts to track down the other. less wealthy branch of the Rosewater family, to convince them to sue their wealthy cousins.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-27
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Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Overview: An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-22
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Mayday
Overview: Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while evading capture or rescue.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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Hyena Road
Overview: Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars – all stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. A unique and dramatic look at the Canadian Army in Afghanistan.
Genres: War Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Deliberate Intent
Overview: A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing blueprints for would-be murderers. Arguing that the publisher is not protected by the First Amendment, the crusading lawyers seek monetary damages for the victims' families.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
Overview: After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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Hostage
Overview: After five hard years behind bars Bonnie Lee is still haunted by her past which hides a terrible secret and hunted by her father, a man desperate for revenge and a need to silence her forever... Alone on the run, she will do whatever it takes to survive and find the one person who can clear her name - her mother. She's a desperate woman on a desperate mission and the only person who can save her is the only person who cares... her Hostage .
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-14
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Disappearing Acts
Overview: A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-09
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Magnum Opus
Overview: This spy thriller pits veteran-turned-artist, Daniel Cliff, against US intelligence, and secrets from his past lead to hellish journey of lies, betrayal, and government retribution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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S.W.A.T.
Overview: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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Starcrossed
Overview: An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight for the freedom of her people.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-31
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Nick of Time
Overview: An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Drop Zone
Overview: A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-08
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Love Come Down
Overview: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the pleasure and pain of his skin. Neville becomes enchanted with Niko, a beguiling young singer who becomes entangled with him on his journey of self-discovery. With the support of their long-time friend Julian and Sister Sarah, a nun with a past, Neville and Matthew come to understand love in all its forms. Written by Conquering Lion Productions/FilmWorks
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-02
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Tammy's Always Dying
Overview: A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-05
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Iron Eagle II
Overview: Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Rude
Overview: This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Task Force: Caviar
Overview: Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-21
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Virtual Mom
Overview: Sometimes it takes something special to bring a mother and daughter together. For thirteen year-old Lucy and her mom, Holly, it took a little magic. One day a strange computer glitch causes Holly to transform into a teenager leading to craziness, fun and ultimately true friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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You Might As Well Live
Overview: On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money and a championship ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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