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Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jnl!) (November
30, 1929 — April 18, 2012) was an American radio and
television personality, as well as a cultural icon who remains
best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.
He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New
Year's Rockin’ Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New
Year's Eve celebrations. Clark was also well known for his
trademark sign-off, "For now, Dick Clark — so long!",
accompanied with a military salute
As host of American Bandstand, Clatk introduced rock & roll to
many Americans. The show gave many new music artists their
first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina
‘Turmer, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder,
Prince, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel. Episodes he
hosted were among the first in which blacks and whites
performed on the same stage and among the first in which the
live studio audience sat without racial segregation. Singer Paul
Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a
"youth culture." Due to his perennial youthful appearance and
his fame as the host of American Bandstand, Clark was often
referred to as "America's oldest teenager” or "the world's oldest
teenager")
In his capacity as a businessman, Clark served as Chief
Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions, part of which he
sold off in his later years. He also founded the American
Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard.
Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created and produced the annual
American Music Awards show, similar to the Grammy
Awards. 21
Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech ability
still impaired, Clark returned to his New Year's Rockin’ Eve
show a year later on December 31, 2005. Subsequently, he
appeared at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, and
every New Year's Rockin’ Eve show through the 2011-12 show.
Clark died on April 18, 2012, of a heart attack at the age of 82
following a medical procedure.!)
Contents
= 1 Early life
= 2 Radio and television career
= 2.1 American Bandstand
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Dick Clark
Dick Clark in 1961
Born Richard Augustus Wagstaff Clark Jr
November 30, 1929
Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Died April 18, 2012 (aged 82)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Cause of Acute myocardial infarction,
death coronary artery disease
Other names World's Oldest Living Teenager
(nickname)
AB, Davis High School
Alma mater Syracuse University
Education
Occupation Radio/television personality,
Dusinessman, game show host
Years active 1945-2012
‘Home town Mount Vernon, New York
Board
member of
Spouse(s)
Dick Clark Productions
Barbara Mallery (m. 1952;
div, 1961)
Loretta Martin (m. 1962;
div. 1971)
Kari Wigton (m, 1977;
4.2012)
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= 2.3 Game show host "i
Clark (b. 1957
= 24 Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin’ Eve ee > 163
= 2.5 Radio programs muane Clark (b. 1963)
= 2.6 Other television programs Cindy Clark (b.1965)
= 2.7 Other media appearances Parent(s) Julia Barnard (1897-1973),
= 3 Business ventures Richard A. Clark Sr. (1896-1989)
= 4 Personal life
= 4.1 Health issues Family Bradley Clark
= 5 Death and legacy Brother)
= 6 Credits
‘Awards See Awards
= 6.1 Filmography
= 6.2 Television Website DickClarkProductions.com (http://w
= 6.3 Albums ‘ww.dickclarkproductions.com/)
= 7 Honors and awards
= 8 References
= 9 External links
Early life
Clark was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York,!*) to Richard Augustus Clark and Julia Fuller (née
Barnard) Clark. His only sibling, older brother Bradley, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
Clark attended A.B. Davis High School (later renamed A.B. Davis Middle School) in Mount Vernon, where he was
an average student.!5) At age 10, Clark decided to pursue a career in radio.!*) In pursuit of that goal, he attended
Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1951 with a degree in advertising and a minor in
radio.!5] While at Syracuse, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi Gamma).!°!
Radio and television career
In 1945, Clark began his career working in the mailroom at WRUN, an AM radio station in Rome, New York, that
was owned by his uncle and managed by his father. Almost immediately, he was asked to fill in for the vacationing
weatherman, and within a few months he was announcing station breaks.'*)
While attending Syracuse, Clark worked at WOLF-AM, then a country music station, After graduation, he returned
to WRUN for a short time where he went by the name Dick Clay.{5] After that, Clark got a job at the television
station WKTV in Utica, New York.!* His first television-hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Santa Fe Riders,
a country-music program. He would later replace Robert Earle (who would later host the GE College Bowl) as a
newscaster!7]
Clark was principal in pro broadcasters operator of 1440 KPRO in Riverside, California, from 1962 to 1982. In the
1960s, he was owner of KGUD AM/FM (later KTYD AM/FM) in Santa Barbara, California.
American Bandstand
In 1952, Clark moved to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he took a job as a dise jockey
at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle.'*] WFIL had an affiliated television station (now WPVI)
with the same call sign, which began broadcasting a show called Bob Horn's Bandstand in 1952. Clark was
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responsible for a similar program on the company's radio station, and served as a regular substitute host when Horn
went on vacation.!*! In 1956, Horn was arrested for drunk driving and was subsequently dismissed.!*! On July 9,
1956, Clark became the show's permanent host.!*)
Bandstand was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed American Bandstand, and debuted nationally
‘on August 5, 1957.9! The show took off, duc to Clark's natural rapport with the live teenage audience and dancing
participants as well as the non-threatening image he projected to television audiences. As a result, many parents
were introduced to rock and roll music. According to Hollywood producer Michael Uslan, "he was able to use his
unparalleled communication skills to present rock 'n roll in a way that was palatable to parents."{101
In 1958, The Dick Clark Show was added to ABC's Saturday night lincup.{5! By the end of year, viewership
exceeded 20 million, and featured artists were "virtually guaranteed" large sales boosts after appearing.!5) In a
surprise television tribute to Clark in 1959 on This Is Your Life, host Ralph Edwards called him "America’s
youngest starmaker," and estimated the show had an audience of 50 million.
Clark moved the show from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1964.{5] The move was related to the popularity of new
"surf" groups based in Southem California, including The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. The show ran daily
Monday through Friday until 1963, then weekly on Saturdays until 1987. Bandstand was briefly revived in 1989,
with Clark again serving as host. By the time of its cancellation, the show had become longest-running variety
show in TV history.!5]
In the 1960s, the show's emphasis changed from merely playing records to including live performers. During this
period, many of the leading rock groups of the 1960s had their first exposure to natiomwide audiences. A few of the
many artists introduced were Ike and Tina Tuer, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Beach Boys, Stevie
Wonder, Prince, Simon and Garfunkel, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino and
Chubby Checker (11021
During an interview with Clark by Henry Schipper of Rolling Stone magazine in 1990, it was noted that "over two-
thirds of the people who've been initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had their television debuts on
American Bandstand, and the rest of them probably debuted on other shows [they] produced.""!5) During the
show's lifetime, it featured over 10,000 live performances, many by artists who would have been unable to appear
anywhere else on TV, as the variety shows during much of this period were "antirock."!"31 Schipper points out that
Clark's performers were shocking to general audiences:
The music establishment, and the adults in general, really hated rock and roll. Politicians, ministers,
older songwriters and musicians foamed at the mouth. Frank Sinatra reportedly called Elvis Presley a
|-smelling aphrodisiac."{"9)
c,
Clark was therefore considered to have a negative influence on youth, and was well aware of that impression held
by most adults:
I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock and roll music at its inception, It was the devil's
music, it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through
that [141
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In 2002, many of the groups he introduced appeared at the $0th anniversary special to celebrate American
Bandstand.""5l Clark noted during the special that American Bandstand was listed in the Guinness Book of
Records as "the longest-running variety show in TV history." In 2010, American Bandstand and Clark himself
were honored at the Daytime Emmy Awards.!!®] Hank Ballard, who wrote "The Twist,” described Clark's
popularity during the early years of American Bandstand:
The man was big. He was the biggest thing in America at that time. He was bigger than the
president!(!71
As a result of Clark's work on Bandstand, journalist Ann Oldenburg states "he deserves credit for doing something
bigger than just putting on a show."!!7] Los Angeles Times writer, Geoff Boucher, goes further, stating that "with
the exception of Elvis Presley, Clark was considered by many to be the person most responsible for the bonfire
spread of rock 'n roll across the country in the late 1950s," making Clark a "household name."!!°] He became a
"primary force in legitimizing rock 'n' roll,” adds Uslan, Clark, however, simplified his contribution:
I played records, the kids danced, and America watched,!"8!
Shortly after taking over, Clark also ended the show's all-white policy by featuring black artists such as Chuck
Berry. In time, blacks and whites performed on the same stage, and studio seating was desegregated.''] During the
late 1950s and 1960s, Clark produced and hosted a series of concert tours around the success of American
Bandstand, which by 1959 had a national audience of 20 million.|!7] However, Clark was unable to get the Beatles
to appear when they came to America!
The reason for Clark's impact on popular culture was partly explained by Paul Anka, a singer who appeared on the
show early in his career: "This was a time when there was no youth culture — he created it. And the impact of the
show on people was enormous."'!9! In 1990, a few years afler the show had been off the air, Clark considered his
personal contribution to the music he helped introduce:
My talent is bringing out the best in other talent, organizing people to showcase them and being able
to survive the ordeal. I hope someday that somebody will say that in the beginning stages of the birth
of the music of the fifties, though I didn't contribute in terms of creativity, I helped keep it alive.{!3)
Payola hearings
In 1960, the United States Senate investigated payola, the practice of music-producing companies paying
broadcasting companies to favor their product. As a result, Clark's personal investments in music publishing and
recording companies were considered a conflict of interest, and he sold his shares in those companies.!20l
When asked about some of the causes for the hearings, Clark speculated about some of the contributing factors not
mentioned by the press:
Politicians . . . did their damnedest to respond to the pressures they were getting from parents and
publishing companies and people who were being driven out of business [by rock]... . It hit a
responsive chord with the electorate, the older people. . . . they full-out hated the music. [But] it stayed
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alive. It could've been nipped in the bud, because they could've stopped it from being on television and
radio!3)
Game show host
Beginning in late 1963, Clark branched out into hosting game shows, presiding over The Object Is.2"| The show
‘was cancelled in 1964, and replaced by Missing Links, which had moved from NBC. Clark took over as host,
replacing Ed McMahon.!2!!
Clark became the first host of The $10,000 Pyramid, which premiered on CBS
March 26, 1973.2] The show — a word-association game created and produced by
daytime television producer Bob Stewart — moved to ABC in 1974. Over the
coming years, the top prize changed several times (and with it the name of the
show), and several primetime spinoffs were created.!?2!
As the program moved back to CBS in September 1982, Clark continued to host
the daytime version through most of its history, winning three Emmy Awards for
best game show host.3] In total, Pyramid won nine Emmy Awards for best game
show during his run, a mark that is eclipsed only by the twelve won by the
syndicated version of Jeopardy!.41 Clark's final Pyramid hosting gig, The
$100,000 Pyramid, ended in 1988.
Dick Clark as host of The
Clark subsequently returned to Pyramid as a guest in later incamations. During the $10,000 Pyramid
premiere of the John Davidson version in 1991, Clark sent a pre-recorded message
wishing Davidson well in hosting the show. In 2002, Clark played as a celebrity
guest for three days on the Donny Osmond version, Earlier, he was also a guest during the Bill Cullen version of
The $25,000 Pyramid which aired simultaneously with Clark's daytime version of the show.
Entertainment Weekly credited Clark's "quietly commanding presence
success,71
as a major factor in the game show's
Clark hosted the syndicated television game show The Challengers, during its only season (1990-91). The
Challengers was a co-production between the production companies of Dick Clark and Ron Greenberg. Also
during the 1990-91 season, Clark and Greenberg co-produced a revival of Lets Make a Deal fot NBC with Bob
Hilton as the host, Hilton would later be replaced by original host Monty Hall. Clark would later host Scattergories
on NBC in 1993; and The Family Channel's version of It Takes Two in 1997. In 1999, along with Bob Boden, he
was one of the executive producers of Fox's TV game show Greed, which ran from November 5, 1999, to July 14,
2000, and was hosted by Chuck Woolery. At the same time, Clark also hosted the Stone-Stanley-created Winning
Lines, which ran for six weeks on CBS from January 8 through February 12, 2000.
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin’ Eve
In 1972, Dick Clark first produced New Year's Rockin‘ Eve, a New Year's Eve music special for NBC which
included coverage of the ball drop festivities in New York City. Clark aimed to challenge the dominance of Guy
Lombardo's New Year's specials on CBS, as he believed its big band music skewed too old. After two years on
NBC, and being hosted by Three Dog Night and George Carlin respectively, the program moved to ABC and Clark
assumed hosting duties. Following Lombardo's death in 1977, Rockin’ Eve experienced a surge in popularity, and
would go on to become the most watched New Year's Eve broadcast yearly. Clark would also serve as a special
correspondent for ABC News's ABC 2000 broadcast, covering the arrival of 2000. PsI26127]
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Following his stroke (which prevented him from appearing at all on the 2004-05 edition),!?8! Clark returned to
make minimal appearances on the 2005-06 edition, while ceding the majority of hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest.
Reaction to Clark's appearance was mixed. While some TV critics (including Tom Shales of The Washington Post,
in an interview with the CBS Radio Network) felt that he was not in good enough shape to do the broadcast, stroke
survivors and many of Clark's fans praised him for being a role model for people dealing with post-stroke
recovery.l26129] Seacrest has remained host and an executive producer of the special ever since, taking over full
duties after Clark's death.%
Radio programs
Clark's first love was radio, and in 1963 he began hosting a radio program called The Dick Clark Radio Show. It
was produced by Mars Broadcasting of Stamford. Despite Clark's enormous popularity on American Bandstand,
the show was only picked up by a few dozen stations and lasted less than a year.3!!
On March 25, 1972, Clark hosted American Top 40, filling in for Casey Kasem.!*21
In 1981, he created The Dick Clark National Music Survey for the Mutual
Broadcasting System.9) The program counted down the top 30 contemporary hits
of the week in direct competition with American Top 40. Clark left Mutual in 1986,
and Charlie Tuna took over the National Music Survey.23)
Clark then launched his own radio syndication group with partners Nick Verbitsky
and Ed Salamon called the United Stations Radio Network. That company later
merged with the Transtar Network to become Unistar, and took over the countdown
program Countdown America. The program ran until 1994, when Unistar was sold
to Westwood One Radio. The following year, Clark and Verbitsky started over with
a new version of the USRN, bringing into the fold Dick Clark's Rock, Roll &
Remember, written and produced by Pam Miller (who also came up with the line
used in the show and later around the world: "the soundtrack of our lives"), and a
new countdown show: The U.S. Music Survey, produced by Jim Zoller. Clark
served as its host until his 2004 stroke.!5) United Stations Radio Networks
continues in operation as of 2013.
Photo of Clark in 1963. His
ABC radio show was called
"Dick Clark Reports"
Dick Clark's longest running radio show began on February 14, 1982. Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember was a
four-hour oldies show named after Clark's 1976 autobiography. The first year, it was hosted by veteran Los
Angeles disc jockey Gene Weed. Then in 1983, voiceover talent Mark Elliot co-hosted with Clark. By 1985, Clark
hosted the entire show. Pam Miller wrote the program and Frank Furino served as producer. Each week, Clark
would profile a different artist from the rock and roll era and count down the top four songs that week from a
certain year in the 1950s, 1960s or early 1970s. The show ended production when Clark suffered his 2004 stroke,
However, reruns from the 1995-2004 era continue to air in syndication and on Clark's website,
dickclarkonline.com.?3)
Other television programs
At the peak of his American Bandstand fame, Clark also hosted a 30-minute Saturday night program called The
Dick Clark Show (aka The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show). It aired from February 15, 1958, until
September 10, 1960, on the ABC television network. It was broadcast live from the "Little Theater" in New York
City and was sponsored by Beech-Nut gum. It featured the rock and roll stars of the day lip-synching their hits, just
as on American Bandstand. However, unlike the aftemoon Bandstand program, which focused on the dance floor
with the teenage audience demonstrating the latest dance steps, the audience of The Dick Clark Show sat in a
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traditional theater setting, While some of the musical numbers were presented simply, others were major
production numbers. The high point of the show was Clark's unveiling, with great fanfare at the end of each
program, of the top ten records of the coming week.!**) This ritual became so embedded in American culture that it
was imitated in many media and contexts, which in turn were satirized nightly by David Letterman on his own Top
Ten lists,
From September 27 to December 20, 1959, Clark hosted a 30-minute weekly talent/variety series entitled Dick
Clark's World of Talent at 10:30 p.m. Sundays on ABC. A variation of producer Irving Mansfield's earlier CBS
series, This Is Show Business (1949-1956), it featured three celebrity panelists, including comedian Jack E.
Leonard, judging and offering advice to amateur and semi-professional performers. While this show was not a
success during its nearly three-month duration, Clark was one of the few personalities in television history on the
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air nationwide seven days a week!
One of Clark's best-known guest appearances was in the final episode ("The Case of the Final Fade-Out") of the
original Perry Mason TV series, in which Clark was revealed to be the killer of an egomaniacal actor during a take
of a television show.4Il5] He appeared as a drag-racing-strip owner in a 1973 episode of the procedural drama
series Adam-12.
Clark attempted to branch into the realm of soul music with the series Sou! Unlimited in 1973. The series, hosted
by Buster Jones, was a more risqué and controversial imitator of the then-popular series Soul Train and alternated
in the Bandstand time slot. The series lasted for only a few episodes.'*6 Despite a feud between Clark and Soul
Train creator and host Don Cornelius, the two men would later collaborate on several specials featuring black
artists.
Clark hosted the short-lived Dick Clark's Live Wednesday in 1978.57) In 1980, Clark served as host of the short-
lived series The Big Show, an unsuccessful attempt by NBC to revive the variety show format of the 1950s/60s.
In 1984, Clark produced and hosted the NBC series TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with co-host with Ed
McMahon. The series ran through 1988 and continued in specials hosted by Clark (sometimes joined by another
TV personality) into the 21st century, first on NBC, later on ABC, and currently on TBS (the last version re-edited
into 15-minute/filler segments airing at about 5:00 a.m.)
Clark and McMahon were longtime Philadelphia acquaintances, and McMahon praised Clark for first bringing him
together with future TV partner Johnny Carson when all three worked at ABC in the late 1950s. The "Bloopei
franchise stems from the Clark-hosted (and produced) NBC "Bloopers" specials of the carly 1980s, inspired by the
books, record albums and appearances of Kermit Schafer, a radio and TV producer who first popularized outtakes
of broadcasts.[*5] For a period of several years in the 1980s, Clark simultaneously hosted regular programs on the
three major American television networks: ABC (Bandstand), CBS (Pyramid) and NBC (Bloopers).
In July 1985, Clark hosted the ABC primetime portion of the historic Live Aid concert, an all star concert designed
by Bob Geldof to end world hunger.!**)
Clark also hosted various pageants from 1988-93 on CBS. He did a brief stint as announcer on The Jon Stewart
Show in 1995.79! He also created and hosted two Fox television specials in 2000 called Challenge of the Child
Geniuses, the last game show he would host.
From 2001 to 2003, Clark was a co-host of The Other Half with Merio Lopez, Danny Bonaduce and Dorian
Gregory, a syndicated daytime talk show intended to be the male equivalent of The View. Clark also produced the
television series American Dreams about a Philadelphia family in the early 1960s whose daughter is a regular on
American Bandstand. The series ran from 2002 to 2005.{55]
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Other media appearances
Clark was featured in the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine. He was criticized for hiring poor, unwed
mothers to work long hours in his chain of restaurants for little pay. The mother featured is shown to work over 80
hours per week and is still unable to make her rent and then gets evicted which results in her having to have her
son stay at his uncle's house. At his uncle's house the boy finds a gun and brings it to school where he shoots
another first grader, In the documentary footage, Michael Moore, with cameraman in tow, approached Clark as he
‘was pulling into his work parking space and attempted to question Clark about welfare policies that allow for those
conditions. Moore tried to query him about the people he employed and the tax breaks he allegedly took advantage
of, in employing welfare recipients; Clark refused to answer any of Moore's questions, shutting the car door and
driving away.
Clark also appeared in interview segments of another 2002 film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was
based on the "unauthorized autobiography" of Chuck Barris. (Barris had worked at ABC as a standards-and-
practices executive during American Bandstand's run on that network.){4!
In the 2002 Dharma and Greg episode "Mission: Implausible," Greg is the victim of a college prank, and devises
an elaborate plan to retaliate, part of which involves his use of a disguise kit; the first disguise chosen is that of
Dick Clark, During a fantasy sequence that portrays the unfolding of the plan, the real Clark plays Greg w:
his disguise.{2)
He also made brief cameos in two episodes of the The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In one episode he plays himself at a
Philadelphia diner, and in the other he helps Will Smith's character host bloopers from past episodes of that
siteom.{81
Business ventures
In 1965, Clark branched out from hosting, producing Where The Action Is,
an afternoon television program shot at different locations every week
featuring house band Paul Revere and the Raiders.(5 In 1973, Clark began
Music Awards./! In 1987, Dick
Clark Productions went public./1 Clark remained active in television and
producing the highly-successful Americ:
movie production into the 1990s.{5I
Dick Clark's AB Grill in Branson,
names "Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill", "Dick Clark's AB Grill", Missouri (November 2007)
"Dick Clark's Bandstand — Food, Spirits & Fun" and "Dick Clark's AB
Diner", There are currently two airport locations in Newark, New Jersey and Phoenix, Arizona, one location in the
Clark had a stake in a chain of music-themed restaurants licensed under the
Molly Pitcher travel plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike in Cranbury, New Jersey, and one location at "Dick Clark's
American Bandstand Theater” in Branson, Missouri. Until recently, Salt Lake City, Utah had an airport location.)
"Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater" opened in Branson in April 2006,"5! and nine months later, a new
theater and restaurant entitled "Dick Clark's American Bandstand Music Complex” opened near Dolly Parton's
Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee!
From 1979 to 1980, Clark reportedly owned the former scandal-ridden Westchester Premier Theatre in
Greenburgh, NY and renamed it the Dick Clark Westchester Theatre.'47! 4 recently opened Stop & Shop
supermarket now stands at that location.471
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Personal life
Clark was married three times, His first marriage was to Barbara Mallery in 1952; the couple had one son, Richard
A. Clark, and divorced in 1961. He married Loretta Martin in 1962; the couple had two children, Duane and Cindy,
and divorced in 1971. His third marriage, to Kari Wigton, whom he married in 1977, lasted until his death. {481
Health issues
During an interview on Larry King Live in April 2004, Clark revealed that he had type 2 diabetes./4915
On December 8, 2004, the then 75-year-old was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering what was initially
termed a minor stroke. Although he was expected to be fine, it was later announced that Clark would be unable to
host his annual New Year's Rockin’ Eve broadcast. Clark returned to the series the following year, but the dysarthria
that resulted from the stroke rendered him unable to speak clearly for the remainder of his life.!5!!
Death and legacy
On April 18, 2012, Clark died following a transurethral resection of the prostate; he had been suffering from
benign prostatic hyperplasia (an enlarged prostate).1I!° His death certificate gives the immediate causes of death
as acute myocardial infarction (a heart attack) and coronary artery disease.!52)
Clark's family did not immediately decide on whether there would be a public memorial service, but stated "there
will be no funeral".2] He was cremated on April 20, and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.(*]
Following his death, U.S. President Barack Obama praised Clark's career: "With American Bandstand, he
introduced decades' worth of viewers to the music of our times. He reshaped the television landscape forever as a
creative and innovative producer. And, of course, for 40 years, we welcomed him into our homes to ring in the
‘New Year."(*4] Motown founder Berry Gordy and singer Diana Ross spoke of Clark's impact on the recording
industry: "Dick was always there for me and Motown, even before there was a Motown. He was an entrepreneur, a
visionary and a major force in changing pop culture and ultimately influencing integration," Gordy said. "He
presented Motown and the Supremes on tour with the "Caravan of Stars" and on American Bandstand, where I got
my start," Ross said.[°51
Credits
Filmography
Because They're Young (1960) ~ Neil Hendry
The Young Doctors (1961) — Dr. Alexander
Killers Three (1968) ~ Roger
The Phynx (1970) — Himself
Spy Kids (2001) — Financier
Bowling For Columbine (2002) — Himself (Documentary)
Television
= ABC 2000 Today — Times Square correspondent
= Adam-12 (1972) — as drag strip owner Mr. J. Benson in the season 4 episode "Who Won?”
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American Bandstand — host
The Challengers — host
Happening (1968-69) — producer
It Takes Two (1997) — host
The Krypton Factor (1981) —host
Lassie (1966) —as J.H. Alpert in the episode "The Untamed Land”
Missing Links (1964) — host
Miss Teen USA (1988, 1991-1993) — host
Miss Universe (1990-1993) — host
Miss USA (1989-1993) — host
New Year's Rockin’ Eve (1972-2004) — host, (2006-2012) ~ co-host, producer
Perry Mason, Season 9, episode 30. The Case of the Final Fadeout
The Object Is (1963-1964) — host
The Partridge Family, guest stat, season 1, episode 13, Star Quality
Pyramid host (1973-1988), guest (The $25,000 Pyramid, 1970s; Pyramid, 2002)
The Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show (1958-1960) — host
Seattergories ~ host
Stoney Burke (1963) — Sgt. Andy Kincaid in the episode "Kincaid"
TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes - co-host, producer
Where the Action Is (1965-67) ~ host
Winning Lines — host
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — himself (two episodes)
Albums
= Rock, Roll & Remember, Vol. 3 (CSP) (1983)
Honors and awards
Clark received the following awards:
= Emmy Awards (1979, 1983, 1985, and 1986)
= Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Person of the Year (1980)
= Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award (1994)
= Peabody Award (1999)
‘He was also an inductee at several Hall of Fame locations:
= Hollywood Walk of Fame (1976)
National Radio Hall of Fame (1990)!
Broadcasting Magazine Hall of Fame (1992)
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame (1992)
Television Hall of Fame (1992)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1993)
Disney Legends (2013)
References
1. "Dick Clark on". TV. July 19, 2010, Retrieved September 2, 2010.
2. "Dick Clark Biography". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
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