Wallis Clark Movies
British actor
Wallis Clark was a fixture of American films from at least 1916, when he played Pencroft in the first cinemazation of
Jules Verne's
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In talkies, Clark busied himself in utility roles as lawyers, city commissioners, foreign noblemen and doctors (he's the medico who warns
Warner Baxter that he's courting heart failure in 1933's
42nd Street. During the mid-1930s, he was most often found in the "B" product of Columbia Pictures. In 1939, he was briefly seen as the poker-playing Yankee captain in
Gone with the Wind. Wallis Clark's resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt enabled him to portray old Rough 'n' Ready in several films, including
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and
Jack London (1943). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
