- Born
- Height1.88 m
- Greydon Clark was born on February 7, 1943, in Niles, Michigan. He attended Valparaiso University near Chicago and studied acting with coach John Morley. He supported himself as a door-to-door salesman prior to breaking into the movie business.
Clark began his cinematic career as an actor in several enjoyably lowbrow exploitation features for legendary Grade-Z director Al Adamson, giving a memorably offbeat performance as wacky drugged-out biker Acid in the splendidly sleazy Les sadiques de Satan (1969) (he also wrote the script under the pseudonym Dennis Wayne). Clark also appeared in Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and the laughably lousy Dracula contre Frankenstein (1971) for Adamson. Clark has directed an entertainingly diverse array of pleasingly lowbrow low-budget drive-in pictures and straight-to-video offerings from the early 1970s to the late 1990s; they include the trashy blaxploitation double whammies Tom (1973) and Black Shampoo (1976), the silly Satan's Cheerleaders (1977), the nifty sci-fi/horror item Terreur extraterrestre (1980), the amusing slasher spoof Wacko (1982), the hilariously raunchy Joysticks (1983), the uproariously awful killer mutant cat camp hoot Uninvited (1993), and the especially atrocious Skinheads (1989).
In addition to directing, Clark often writes and produces his own movies and sometimes essays small roles in his films. He both wrote the script and pops up in a minor part in the fun supernatural revenge opus Psychic Killer (1975). His late actress wife Jacqulin Cole appears in several of his films.- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpouseJacqulin Cole(? - February 2, 2003) (her death, 2 children)
- Children
- Considers one of the proudest moments in his life to be marching in a civil rights parade with Martin Luther King.
- The "beer" on the sets of Clark's movies was always apple juice and seltzer, with foam added to make it look like beer. Neville Brand was concerned about doing the bar scenes in Clark's Riders (1978), having struggled with alcoholism himself, and was assured by Clark that there was never any alcohol on his sets.
- Father of Trevor Clark.
- Played basketball in college.
- [when asked which of his films is his favorite] The next one! I'm often asked that question and that's always my silly answer. I have two children--two boys--and if you asked me which one I liked best obviously I couldn't choose. The same way with my films. Some were more successful from a financial point of view, some worked better than others from an artistic point of view, but each of them had their own reasons for being made, their own activities on the set, in pre-production, post-production, etc., and I like them all equally. Except, you know, the best one will be the next one.
- Growing up in the Midwest, I didn't know what a director did except he was the last name before the movie began. When I came out here and got on a set I realized the director had the best job of anyone. I can't imagine anything as fulfilling as looking into the sky and thinking, "I've got this story in mind", and then sitting down at my computer and staring at the monitor and writing. "Ext. day -- blah blah blah" and then months later actually having a movie! To get a thought and then down the line being able to tell that story to millions of people is very fulfilling. It's almost a religious experience.
- If I make a picture that allows me to do another picture, then I'm very pleased. All I wanted to do was make movies. I was very, very lucky in my career to have directed 20 features.
- I always like collaborating with professional people . . . the more experienced an actor is, the less you have to direct him.
- Psychic Killer (1975) - $2,000
- Les sadiques de Satan (1970) - $600
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