Matt Clark, a character actor with more than 100 film and TV credits ranging from In the Heat of the Night and dozens of Westerns to Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West, died March 15 in Austin. He was 89.
A family rep confirmed the news to Deadline but did not provide a cause of death.
Clark was born on November 25, 1936, in Washington. After serving in the Army, he trained at the HB Studio in New York under Herbert Berghof and William Hickey. He joined the Living Theatre and worked off-Broadway before pivoting to screen roles. His first two movies were Black Like Me (1964) and then Walter Mirisch’s Best Picture Oscar-winning classic In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
He went on to guest on such popular TV series as Bonanza, The Waltons, Kung
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