Greydon Clark was born on February 7, 1943, in Niles, Michigan. He
attended Valparaiso University near Chicago and studied acting with
coach John Morley. He supported himself as a door-to-door salesman
prior to breaking into the movie business.
Clark began his cinematic career as an actor in several enjoyably
lowbrow exploitation features for legendary Grade-Z director
Al Adamson, giving a memorably offbeat
performance as wacky drugged-out biker Acid in the splendidly sleazy
Die Sadisten des Satans (1969) (he also
wrote the script under the pseudonym Dennis Wayne). Clark also appeared
in
Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)
and the laughably lousy
Draculas Bluthochzeit mit Frankenstein (1971)
for Adamson. Clark has directed an entertainingly diverse array of
pleasingly lowbrow low-budget drive-in pictures and straight-to-video
offerings from the early 1970s to the late 1990s; they include the
trashy blaxploitation double whammies
Tom (1973) and
Black Shampoo (1976), the silly
Satan's Cheerleaders (1977),
the nifty sci-fi/horror item
Alien Shock (1980), the
amusing slasher spoof Wacko... da wackelt die Bude (1982), the
hilariously raunchy Die Vidioten (1983),
the uproariously awful killer mutant cat camp hoot
Uninvited (1993), and the especially
atrocious Skinheads in USA (1989).
In addition to directing, Clark often writes and produces his own
movies and sometimes essays small roles in his films. He both wrote the
script and pops up in a minor part in the fun supernatural revenge opus
Psychic Killer (1975). His late
actress wife Jacqulin Cole
appears in several of his films.
