Greydon Clark

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 Satan's Sadists (1969) (he also wrote the script under the pseudonym Dennis Wayne).

Clark also appeared in Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and the laughably lousy Dracula vs.

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 Without Warning (1980), the amusing slasher spoof Wacko (1982), the hilariously raunchy Joysticks (1983), the uproariously awful killer mutant cat camp hoot Uninvited (1993), and the especially atrocious Skinheads (1989). In addition to directing, Clark often writes and produces his own movies and sometimes essays small roles in his films.

Frankenstein (1971) for Adamson.

The "beer" on the sets of Clark's movies was always apple juice and seltzer, with foam added to make it look like beer. Neville Brand was concerned about doing the bar scenes in Clark's Hi-Riders (1978), having struggled with alcoholism himself, and was assured by Clark that there was never any alcohol on his sets.