John Clarke (actor)

John Clarke
Clarke as Mickey Horton, in Days of Our Lives 1967.
Born	(1932-04-14) April 14, 1932 South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–2004

John Clarke (born April 14, 1932 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American actor. Clarke is recognized for originating and portraying Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, until he retired early in 2004 because of health concerns. He was replaced in the role by John Ingle, who left the program in 2006.

In 1959, Clarke acted with Ida Lupino in an episode of CBS's The Twilight Zone titled The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine. In the 1961-1962 television season, he was cast in 27 episodes as Patrolman Joe Huddleston in Leslie Nielsen's ABC crime drama series, The New Breed.^[1]

His daughter is actress Melinda Clarke, who started out on Days of our Lives and later played Julie Cooper-Nichol on the television series, The O.C..

Awards

In 2005, Clarke received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award. He was nominated for the 1979 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series for Days of Our Lives.^[1]

Selected filmography

Film

• Operation Bottleneck (1961, as Sgt. Marty Regan)
• You Have to Run Fast (1961, as Chuck)
• Gun Street (1961, as Deputy Sheriff Sam Freed)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, as Prison Guard, uncredited)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, as a helicopter pilot, uncredited)
• The Thin Red Line (1964, uncredited)
• Finger on the Trigger (1965, as Numitah)
• The Satan Bug (1965, as Lt. Raskin)

Television

• Destination Space (1959, TV movie, as Space Ship Crew)
• Hawaiian Eye (1960, 1 episode, as Jablonsky)
• The New Breed (1961-1962, 27 episodes, as Officer Joe Huddleston)
• Death Valley Days (1960-1968, 7 episodes, as miscellaneous characters)
• Days of Our Lives (1965-2004, 176 episodes, as Mickey Horton)

References

External links

• John Clarke on IMDb