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Al Clark (other)
Al Clark may refer to: *Al Clark (American football) (born 1948), American football player *Al Clark (Blackwater), co-founder of Blackwater in 1997 *Al Clark (film editor) (1902–1971), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing five times *Al Clark (producer), Australian film producer and actor *Al Clark (umpire) (born 1948), former baseball umpire *Al C. Clark; pseudonym of Donald Goines (1936–1974), American writer See also *Albert Clark (other) Albert Clark may refer to: * Albert Clark (artist) (1843–1928), English painter * Albert Clark (baseball) (1910–1988), American baseball player * Albert C. Clark (1865-1929), Illinois state senator * Albert Curtis Clark (1859–1937), English c ... * Alan Clark (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Clark (American Football)
Al Clark (February 29, 1948 – June 4, 2004) was an American football defensive back who played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles. Early life Clark was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana and attended Greenville Park High School in Hammond. He enrolled and played college football at Grambling State University before transferring to Northern Arizona University and lastly Eastern Michigan University. Professional career Clark was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft, 72nd overall. After one year with the Lions as a cornerback and kick returner, Clark signed with the Rams, where he stayed for four years. His final year was with the Eagles in 1976. On December 10, 1972, Clark was on the field when St. Louis Cardinals' quarterback Jim Hart completed a pass to Bobby Moore (later known as Ahmad Rashad), who caught the ball on the run near his own 40-yard line. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Clark (Blackwater)
Alfred Clark and Erik Prince, was the founder of the private security firm Blackwater. They created Blackwater in 1997 as a business for assuming some of the roles once played by the public sector military, most notably providing security for American and British officials in the Iraq War. Clark joined the United States Navy in 1983 and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) class 128 in 1984. Following SEAL Tactical Training (STT) and completion of six month probationary period, he received the NEC 5326 as a Combatant Swimmer (SEAL), entitled to wear the Special Warfare insignia also known as "SEAL Trident". Clark received assignment to SEAL Team FOUR and served there until 1994 when he volunteered for and completed a specialized selection and training course for assignment to Naval Special Warfare Development Group. As a Navy SEAL firearms instructor, Clark grew dissatisfied with the fact that the Navy did not own firing ranges and instead had to borrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Clark (film Editor)
Al Clark (September 15, 1902 – July 13, 1971) was a prolific American film editor whose career spanned four decades, most of which was spent at Columbia Pictures. He was nominated for 5 Academy Awards and 1 Primetime Emmy, Emmy during his career. He is credited with editing over 120 films, and towards the end of his career, in the 1960s, he also edited several television series. Career Clark began his career in 1933 at the Poverty Row studio, Tower Productions. The first film he worked on was the crime drama, ''The Important Witness''. In 1934 he would begin his long association with Columbia Pictures, on Lambert Hillyer's crime drama, ''Men of the Night (1934 film), Men of the Night''. His work on the 1937 screwball comedy, ''The Awful Truth'', starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, earned him the first of his five Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominations. In 1939 Clark co-edited, along with Gene Havlick, Frank Capra's classic ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'', which stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Clark (producer)
Al Clark (born in Huelva, Spain) is an Australian film producer. He is best known for his producer role on ''The'' ''Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' and his executive producer role on the film, '' Chopper''. Clark is also the author of four books. ''Time Flies'' and ''Time Flies Too'' are Clark's memoirs, which merge the early days of punk and new wave popular music with the truncated British film renaissance of the 1980s and the world of international film finance, and later chronicle his move to Australia and his work there. Clark's first book ''Raymond Chandler in Hollywood'' provides an insight into the work of the writer of detective fiction and includes interviews with many of the Hollywood figures who were associated with Raymond Chandler and his films. His second book ''Making Priscilla'', also titled ''The Lavender Bus: How a Hit Movie Was Made and Sold'', is a behind-the-scenes tale outlining the follies of film-making and how ''The Adventures of Priscil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Clark (umpire)
Alan Marshall Clark (born January 9, 1948) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1976 to 1999, and throughout both Major Leagues in 2000 and 2001, wearing uniform number 24 when the American League adopted them for its umpires in 1980, then retained the number when the NL and AL staffs were merged in 2000. Clark umpired 3,392 major league games in his 26-year career. He umpired in two World Series ( 1983 and 1989), two All-Star Games ( 1984 and 1995), five American League Championship Series ( 1979, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1999), and three American League Division Series (1981, 1996 and 2000). Clark worked second base in the 1978 one-game playoff between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, which the Yankees won 5–4. He was the home plate umpire in Nolan Ryan's 300th career win on July 31, 1990. Clark and fellow 1976 rookie Greg Kosc were the first American League umpires who never used the outside chest protector, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Goines
Donald Goines (pseudonym: Al C. Clark; December 15, 1936 – October 21, 1974) was an African-American writer of urban fiction. His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim. Early life and family Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 15, 1936. His parents were a middle-class black couple that ran a laundry business, with his mother Myrtle Goines telling Goines that her family was descended from Jefferson Davis and a woman who was enslaved. Donald was the middle child of three, and the only son. At age 15, Goines lied about his age to join the Air Force and fought in the Korean War. Adult life During his stint in the Armed Forces, Goines developed an addiction to heroin that continued after his honorable discharge in the mid-1950s. In order to support his addiction, Goines committed crimes including pimping, larceny, robbery, illegal liquor manufacturing and theft. He resided in several cities, including Kansas City, Missouri and Junction City, Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Clark (other) (1918–1993), West Indian cricketer
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Albert Clark may refer to: * Albert Clark (artist) (1843–1928), English painter * Albert Clark (baseball) (1910–1988), American baseball player * Albert C. Clark (1865-1929), Illinois state senator * Albert Curtis Clark (1859–1937), English classical scholar * Albert M. Clark (1879–1950), American Supreme Court justice from Missouri * Albert O. Clark (1858–1935), American architect * Albert P. Clark (1913–2010), American superintendent of the US Air Force Academy * Albert Clarke (1916–1944), English footballer See also *Bert Clark (other) * Al Clark (other) *Bertie Clarke Carlos Bertram Clarke (7 April 1918 – 14 October 1993) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1939. During the war when three-day cricket was an impossibility due to the demands of labour for the mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |