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Sturdy, gap-toothed, usually bespectacled American character actor of Armenian ancestry, born in Buffalo, New York, as Richard Mardirosian to parents Matthew and Afro Mardirosian. On screen from 1968, he has specialized in likeable, if frequently awkward, uptight or geeky characters.

Clark is possibly best known for his two season five and six appearances in M*A*S*H (1972): respectively, as U.S. Navy doctor Lieutenant Tippy Brooks, a crossword fanatic and friend of Hawkeye, in the episode '38 Across'; and as Captain Ben Pierce, who by dint of having the same surname, receives Hawkeye's mail (and vice versa), in Mail Call Three. Best employed in comedy, Clark also had a recurring role as a mild-mannered patient of psychologist Bob Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show (1972) and was third-billed in the sitcom The Two of Us (1981), as the beleaguered agent of talk-show host Nan Gallagher (Mimi Kennedy). He briefly starred in his own domestic sitcom, We've Got Each Other (1977), as a home-bound writer for a mail order catalogue. Neither a critical nor a commercial success, the show was cancelled after one season. Clark subsequently essayed diverse characters in episodes of Barney Miller (1975), played an amnesiac psychiatric patient in NBC's St. Elsewhere (1982) and made guest appearances in other TV series until his retirement from acting in 2003.

Clark appeared three times on Broadway, notably as Louis XVI in Ben Franklin in Paris (1964-65) and as the 'Sultan of Bashir' in Don't Drink the Water (1966-68), a comic play written by Woody Allen, set inside a U.S. embassy behind the Iron Curtain. A hit show, it ran to 598 performances at the Morosco, Ethel Barrymore and Belasco theatres and spawned a motion picture in 1969.

In 1974, he co-starred in an unsold sitcom pilot called Shirts/Skins which was based on the successful TV movie of the previous year. The pilot was never aired.

(August 25 to 29, 1970) He played Nicely Nicely Johnson in Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser&#39;s musical, &quot;Guys and Dolls,&quot; in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production at the Adams Memorial Theatre Main Stage at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with Tom Atkins (Harry the Horse, Converts Chorus); John Bennett Perry (Sky Masterson); Barbara Callander (Agatha); David Clennon (Arvide Abernathy, Converts Chorus); Olivia Cole (Miss Adelaide); J. Ray Downer (Rusty Charlie); Peter Feldman (Brandy Bottle Bates); Ellie Fink (General Cartwright); Bob Foster (J. Ver Lips Louie); Linda Gulder (Hot Box Girl); Michael Henry (Angie the Ox); Ellen Himmelfarb (Hot Box Girl); Bob Hitt (Society Max, Converts Chorus); Elizabeth Keen (Lady Luck); Laurie Kennedy (Hot Box Girl); Phoebe King (Priscilla); Richard Masur (Calvin); Barbara Nielson (Mimi); Cynthia Parker (Hot Box Girl); Brock Putnam (Big Julie, Convert Chorus); April Shawhan (Sarah Brown); Maureen Smith (Hot Box Girl); Paul Thomas (Lt. Brannigan, Convert Chorus); Michael Tucker (Benny Southstreet, Convert Chorus) and Richard Venture (Nathan Detroit); in the cast. Nikos Psacharapoulos was artistic director. Steven Rubin was settings designer. Ken Thompson was costume designer. Richard Devin was lighting designer. Elizabeth Keen was movement consultant. Herbert Kaplan was musical director. Franklin Keysar was stage manager.

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