Clarke, a punter, was a three-time varsity football letterwinner at Yale University, playing for Carmen Cozza in the early seventies.
He has made guest appearances on many TV series, including Baywatch, Party of Five, ER, CSI: Miami, and Drop Dead Diva.
He has appeared on the soap operas General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, and Sunset Beach.
He also appeared in the films Blood and Guts (1978), Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sydney White (2007).
They have two sons, Sean, a pole vaulter who competed for the University of Pennsylvania and was a two-time All-American, jumping 5.50 (18'1/2"), as well as Texas A&M during grad school in 2021,[2] and Cary from a previous marriage.