User:JohnClarknew

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This user's name is John Clark, born All Saint's Day, November 1, 1932, and best known now, according to the media, as the "disgraced" ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave, who divorced him December 28, 2000, after 32 years of marriage. He did have a prior life, for he began his showbusiness career in 1944 as a child actor in his native England playing schoolboy D'arcy Minor, the comedy stooge to Will Hay, on BBC radio's "The Will Hay Programme", and on stage at the Victoria Palace in London's West End, in the thick of the falling V2's. Following that, he became a star as the original Just William both on stage and radio in 1947. He emigrated to Canada after a 3 year stint in the Merchant Navy, becoming the original host of his TV interview show "Junior Magazine" on the CBC's coast to coast network for five years. Moving on to New York in 1960, he soon appeared on the American stage with heavyweights, like Ray Milland in "Hostile Witness", Stacy Keach in "Macbird", Cedric Hardwicke in "An Inspector Calls" and Luther Adler in "A View From The Bridge". He met his wife-to-be during a brief visit to London when he appeared in a television play starring Lynn Redgrave, where she played a trendy antiques store owner, and he played her very gay assistant. They married soon after when she came to New York to promote her film Georgy Girl. At that point, his career took a new turn, for he soon became her husband, father to her children, manager, director, co-writer, and co-actor. Shows he produced for her on the stage were "Saint Joan", "California Suite", "The Two of Us", "Thursday's Girls" and his last co-venture with her, the award winning "Shakespeare For My Father", which played Broadway, The Haymarket in London, Australia, and Canada. Lynn Redgrave didn't have much choice when she divorced him after he revealed that he had fathered a child as a favor to a fallen Jehovah's Witness, a family friend, who then turned around and sued for a large piece of the family's fortune. Beset by false rumors in the press, he created a website <johnclarkprose.com> where he tells the whole story. The "prose" stands not for its Shakespearean meaning, but for its legal meaning pro se, for he has spent the last five years of his life fighting to keep his sanity and a few dollars away from the ceaseless raids of the many attorneys who became his new society, and to set the record straight for the benefit of the press. In fact, as his weblawg shows, based on his experiences, the idea of self representation in the courts of the land has become something of a personal crusade. The one bright spot on his horizon is his new Japanese wife Miyuki, whom he looked for and found on the internet.

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