Clark Johnson
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Clark Johnson （born September 10, 1954）, is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film.
He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat （1985–1988）, Clark Roberts in E.N.G. （1989–1994）, Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street （1993–1999） and Augustus Haynes in The Wire （2008）.
Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The family eventually moved to Canada.
He has three siblings including jazz singer Molly Johnson and actress and singer Taborah Johnson.
Johnson attended Eastern Michigan University on a partial athletic scholarship for American football, but he was expelled after he was caught stealing food from the school cafeteria.
He attended several other universities including the University of Ottawa and Loyola College/Concordia University, where he played Canadian football, before ending up at the Ontario College of Art as a film major.
He was drafted by the Toronto Argonauts in the seventh round of the 1978 CFL Draft but ultimately did not play professionally.
Johnson started in film doing special effects, including David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone.
This behind-the-scenes work often served as a "backup" for him during the early stages of his acting career.
He began performing in feature films in 1981, landing roles in the films Killing 'em Softly, Colors, Wild Thing, Adventures in Babysitting, and Nowhere to Hide.
He also acted in a number of television shows early in his career, including The Littlest Hobo, Night Heat, Hot Shots and E.N.G. He starred in the first episode of The Women of Brewster Place in 1989 as Butch Full...