Lon Clark

Lon Clark was born on January 12, 1912 and was a New York City radio actor.

Clark was born in Frost, Minnesota. As a young man in Minnesota, Clark studied at the MacPhail Music Center in Minneapolis. He began as a musician and actor in traveling tent shows, followed by a stint at the Cincinnati Summer Opera. After participating in radio dramas in Cincinnati, he came to New York during the 1940s and his rich baritone voice quickly led to roles on network radio.

He had the lead role in Nick Carter, Master Detective on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1943 to 1955. Nick Carter's scripts were by Alfred Bester and others. Clark also played the district attorney on Front Page Farrell.

Clark was also a familiar voice on shows such as the weekday series Mommie and the Men, the frontier adventure series Wilderness Road, the World War II dramas Words at War (1943–45), and Soldiers of the Press (1942–45), the quiz show Quick as a Flash, the soap opera Bright Horizon, the science fiction series 2000 Plus and Exploring Tomorrow, Lights Out, The Mysterious Traveler, The Kate Smith Hour, The March of Time, The Adventures of The Thin Man and Norman Corwin presents., performing alongside artists such as Fred Allen, Art Carney, Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.

Clark returned to the stage in his later years, replacing Jason Robards in the 1956 Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. He returned to Broadway in the short run of Sidney Sheldon's Roman Candle with Inger Stevens and Julia Meade.

He died at St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan on October 2, 1998. He survived by his wife, Michelle Trudeau Clark; two sons, Lon Jr. and Stephen, a brother, Gerald, and a grandson.