Wallis Clark
Wallis Hensman Clark was an English stage and film actor.
Biography
Clark was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of William Wallis Clark, an engineer. Prior to acting, Clark was an engineer. He began his stage career in Margate, Kent, in 1908. He moved to the United States and acted in numerous plays on the stage, including at the Little Theatre in Philadelphia, for years before moving on to the screen in 1932.
He appeared in supporting roles in 136 films between 1931 and 1954. Five of these films won Best Picture: It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Ziegfeld, You Can't Take It with You, and Gone with the Wind. In four of these five films, Clark was uncredited. In Mutiny on the Bounty, he is credited in the role of Morrison.
Selected filmography
Elusive Isabel - Prince D'Abruzzi20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - PencroftCy Whittaker's Ward - BaileyHell's House - Judge RobinsonThe Final Edition - Police Commissioner Jim Conroy Alias the Doctor - Dr. Kleinschmidt Disorderly Conduct - Police Lieutenant Shopworn - Mr. Dean The Famous Ferguson Case - Lindsay Jamison Attorney for the Defense - CrowellMy Pal, the King - Dr. LorenzThe Night Mayor - Crandall Okay, America! - Bit Role Big City Blues - Chief of Police The Night of June 13 - Defense Attorney Washington Merry-Go-Round - Carl Tilden Hidden Gold - JonesI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Chicago Lawyer If I Had a Million - Mr. Monroe - Bank Executive Forbidden Trail - Cash KargerCall Her Savage - Detective No Man of Her Own - Thomas Laidlaw They Just Had to Get Married - FairchildsMadame Butterfly - Comm. AndersonThe Match King - Erickson's Associate Luxury Liner - Dr. VeithMystery of the Wax Museum - Autopsy Surgeon's Assistant 42nd Street - Dr. Chadwick Private Jones - Bit Part The World Gone Mad - Dist. Atty. Avery HendersonThe Working Man - Mike - the Auditor The Kiss Before the Mirror - Public ProsecutorDouble Harness - Postmaster GeneralTugboat Annie - Second Banker Lady for a Day - Commissioner Bureau of Missing Persons - Mr. PaulI Loved a Woman - Banker Police Car 17 - Lt. Dan ReganEver in My Heart - Enoch Sewell Female - Board Member The World Changes - Mr. Freddie McCord - ClerkKing for a Night - Judge The Meanest Gal in Town - Mr. Bowen - Barbershop Customer Massacre - CochranBeloved - YatesI've Got Your Number - Mr. MadisonA Woman's Man - Ralph Mallon - Studio ChiefIt Happened One Night - Lovington The Crime Doctor - Judge MalloryMen in White - Mr. Smith The Line-Up - Hotel Manager Stand Up and Cheer! - Senator Fog Over Frisco - Accountant The Life of Vergie Winters - Mr. PrestonI Give My Love - Attorney Name the Woman - Det. JeffriesShe Had to Choose - District AttorneyMarie Galante - Head of Bureau in Washington Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round - Ship's Captain Cheating Cheaters - Mr. PalmerI'll Fix It - CohagenThe Secret Bride - Defense Attorney Enter Madame - John H. Massey Bordertown - Friend of Dean on Podium The Casino Murder Case - Dr. Elton It Happened in New York - Joe BlakeBaby Face Harrington - Mr. Stokes $10 Raise - President water company The Flame Within - Man at Hospital Benefit Chinatown Squad - Police Lieutenant NorrisChampagne for Breakfast - ReachMutiny on the Bounty - MorrisonWhipsaw - Agent Claymore White Lies - Prosecuting Attorney Three Live Ghosts - Detective Harris It Had to Happen - Immigration Officer The Return of Jimmy Valentine - Johnson Sutter's Gold - Defense Attorney The Great Ziegfeld - Stock Broker The First Baby - Williams The Unguarded Hour - GraingerParole! - Prison WardenEasy Money - Mr. CurtisTicket to Paradise - Editor Postal Inspector - Inspector Gil PottleRomeo and Juliet - Town Watch Missing Girls - Senator BensonCraig's Wife - Mr. Burton Adventure in Manhattan - City Editor Come Closer, Folks - Mr. HoustonGreat Guy - Joel GreenWe Who Are About to Die - Dr. Hedges Woman in Distress - Mervyn SeymourCriminal Lawyer - Judge - Nora James' Trial The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - GeorgeI Promise to Pay - B.G. WilsonThe Jones Family in Big Business - Mr. RodneyParnell - Doctor The Wildcatter - TorranceShe Had to Eat - Ralph Wilkinson - G-ManThe Man Who Cried Wolf - Resident Doctor Escape by Night - District Attorney BaldwinTrapped by G-Men - Federal Agent #1Dangerously Yours - Insurance Agent Big Town Girl - Garvey Rosalie - Major Prentice The Higgins Family - George W. BradshawHunted Men - Chief of Police You Can't Take It with You - Bill Hughes Personal Secretary - Fleming Star Reporter - District Attorney William BurnetteBlondie Meets the Boss - Henry W. Philpot I Stole a Million - Jenkins - Mgr. of Cab Installment Sales Smuggled Cargo - Dr. HamiltonMain Street Lawyer - ReynoldsAllegheny Uprising - McGlashanGone with the Wind - Poker-Playing Captain The Big Guy - District AttorneyAbe Lincoln in Illinois - Politician Vigil in the Night - Mr. Peterson - Board Member And One Was Beautiful - Judge Young Bill Hickok - Senator Tucker Penny Serenade - JudgeMurder by Invitation - Judge MooreEllery Queen and the Perfect Crime - Harmon Pacific Blackout - Pompous Doctor The Remarkable Andrew - City Treasurer R.R. McCallHello, Annapolis - Mr. Nolan Yankee Doodle Dandy - President Theodore Roosevelt Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die - Ed SchieffelinGentleman Jim - Judge Geary Random Harvest - Jones The Human Comedy - School Principal Mission to Moscow - Well-wisher with Bill Crime Doctor - Judge Bomber's Moon - Col. Sir Charles SanfordThe Man from Down Under - The Major You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith - Travers Northern Pursuit - Judge Jack London - Theodore Roosevelt The Desert Song - Pajot Uncertain Glory - Razeau The Lady and the Monster - Warden Follow the Boys - HVC Committee Man Mr. Skeffington - Clubman Since You Went Away - Man at Cocktail Lounge Mrs. Parkington - Capt. McTavish National Velvet - Clerk of Scales The Captain from Köpenick - Friedrich HoprechtWithout Love - Prof. Thompson Conflict - Prof. Berens First Yank Into Tokyo - Dr. Langley Mildred Pierce - Wally's lawyer San Antonio - Tip Brice Devotion - Mr. George Smith That Forsyte Woman - Cabby Free for All - Mr. Van AlstyneThe Toast of New Orleans' - Mr. O'Neill Kim - British General at Creighton's Criminal Lawyer - Melville Webber The Las Vegas Story - Allan Witwer She Couldn't Say No - Reverend Weaver Rogue's March - Brooks - Bill Collector