Anthony Clark, the comedian and actor best known for starring as Greg Warner on the CBS sitcom "Yes, Dear," has died at 62. He died on Tuesday, November 10, and the news was announced on Wednesday by his former co-star Mike O'Malley, who shared an emotional tribute on social media.
Clark died from complications related to pneumonia, according to Deadline. O'Malley, who played Clark's on-screen friend on "Yes, Dear," wrote on X: "Anthony Clark died yesterday. He was a hilarious guy." He added that the two had spoken on the phone three weeks earlier and that Clark "had us laughing loudly once again."
"Yes, Dear" ran on CBS for six seasons from 2000 to 2006, producing 122 episodes. Clark played Greg Warner, the uptight father at the centre of the comedy, alongside O'Malley as Jimmy Hughes, his freewheeling brother-in-law. The show followed two very different families sharing one house, and Clark's straight-laced Greg was its anchor.
Before television, Clark built his name in stand-up comedy. O'Malley recalled that when he and his wife were dating in the mid-1990s, Clark was "already famous in Boston, regularly selling out comedy shows." Clark made his film debut in Nancy Savoca's 1991 coming-of-age drama "Dogfight," and later starred in the NBC sitcom "Boston Common." His final acting credit came in the television series "West of Liberty" in 2019.
Tributes poured in from across comedy and television. Comedian Dane Cook described Clark as one of the finest live performers he had ever seen, while "Yes, Dear" co-creator Greg Garcia also remembered him in a statement to Deadline. O'Malley shared photographs from the show's final episode, which aired twenty years ago.
Clark was born in April 1964 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is remembered as one of the defining sitcom faces of the early 2000s, a stand-up who carried his Boston stage craft into six seasons of network television.
