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Blake Clark is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known as Chet Hunter on Boy Meets World and Harry "The Hardware Store Guy" on Home Improvement. Clark has voiced Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise starting with 2008's Toy Story: The Musical, having inherited the role from his friend Jim Varney, who died of lung cancer in 2000. Early life Clark was born and raised in Macon, Georgia. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1969 with a degree in the performing arts. Career Clark is a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army with the 5th Infantry Division. During his time in the army, Clark was also a member of the 101st Airborne Division known as the "Screaming Eagles." In 1984 he co-starred in the George Carlin HBO TV show Apt. 2C of which only the pilot episode was ever made. He has been cast in numerous Adam Sandler films including The Waterboy, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, 50 First Dates, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Bedtime Stories, Grown Ups, and That's My Boy. He has also made guest appearances in numerous television series, including Home Improvement, Boy Meets World, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Drew Carey Show, Girl Meets World, and Community. He was also Fred the chauffeur in Remington Steele. Starting with Toy Story 3, Clark has voiced Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise, in place of his close friend Jim Varney, Slinky's original voice actor in the first two films, who died of lung cancer on February 10, 2000. When Toy Story 3 was still in production after Varney had died, Pixar searched for someone who sounded like Varney and fortunately found Clark, who "very much captures the essence and spirit of Slinky Dog's character." Personal life Clark has two sons, one of whom, Travis Clark, is also a comedian. Filmography Film Television Video games Theme parks Theatre References External links Blake Clark at IMDb. Discover the Blake Clark popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Blake Clark books.

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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge synopsis, comments

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge & John Beer

    One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work still popula...

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    Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson & Helen McNeil

    American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is ...

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    Matthew Arnold

    Matthew Arnold & Nicholas Shrimpton

    Critic, essayist, educator and poet, author of The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman and other popular poems.

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    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen

    'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known and beloved for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane A...

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    Robert Burns

    Robert Burns

    'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the Nation...

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    W. B. Yeats

    W.B. Yeats

    'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most wellknown and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long prepara...

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Alfred Tennyson & Michael Baron

    Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and...

  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam synopsis, comments

    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Omar Khayyam, A. D. P Briggs & Edward Fitzgerald

    The bestloved, bestselling poem ever published a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies'...

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything ...

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    William Blake

    William Blake & Peter Butter

    'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William BlakeWilliam Blake was a poet an...

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Anthony Thwaite

    One of America's best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.

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    Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman

    From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Po...