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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Clark demonstrated an intensity
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Carr, Feb. 1, 1934-Feb. 17, 2006 Paul Carr's Official Website |
In high school, voted most likely
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Seaman Clark seldom, if ever, smiled. His touchy first season character would have been out of place when Voyage moved to color and lighter stories in its second season, so, sadly, seaman Clark was put out to sea (so to speak). Yet he was one of the most endearing crew members during season one, if for no other reason than that he lived so close to the edge. And he could be depended on! If anyone was going to lose it, it was seaman Clark. If anyone was going to come apart at the seams under stress, it was seaman Clark. If anyone was going to wind up in the brig for insubordination, it was--yes, you guessed it--seaman Clark. You could see it in his eyes. You could sense it in the downward curl of his lip--in the desperate darting of his pupils. It seemed as though injecting instability into the story lines was the primary function he served. |
| .....that and to make Doc look bad for ever having OK'd the man for submarine duty. It is fitting that he was the only regular killed off during the course of the series (well, sort of). In year two of Voyage, Paul Carr played a seaman Benson, displaying every Clarkism in the book--capped off by an insane obsession with killing Captain Crane. The poor bastard wound up being eaten by a dinosaur, a fate he richly deserved, though thanks to the indiscriminate use of stock footage, seaman Benson/Clark's ghost subsequently haunted the corridors of submarine Seaview for years to come. |
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