GORDON B. CLARKE

May 2, 1906

Gordon B. Clarke was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He made his screen debut in an uncredited role in Zorro’s Fighting Legion (1939) for Republic Pictures.  He started doing television in 1951 with an episode of “Lights Out”. 

Clarke was a stand-in for Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and shared the screen with him in four films from 1939 to 1947.

His first work for Desilu was also his only time acting with Lucille Ball. He played a gambler in “Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo” (ILL S5;E25) filmed on March 29, 1956, and first aired on May 7, 1956.

CLARKE (French Accent): “You have won again! What is your system, madam?”
LUCY: “System? I don’t have any system!”

The very next year he returned to Desilu to appear in a 1957 episode of their western “The Sherriff of Cochise” as well as the Desilu
Studios-filmed, “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.”

His final screen role was playing (uncredited) a hotel manager in the 1971 film Plaza Suite. 

Clarke died on January 11, 1972 at age 65.