Sam Rockwell is still getting checks for the film Lean on Me — even though he wasn’t in the movie. The actor shared the information while appearing on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused ...

The actor, 56, says he was cast to say one line and was paid for one day of work, but actor Michael Imperioli ultimately played the role Rockwell told the story while on a recent episode of the Happy ...

Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his ...

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Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me” starring Morgan Freeman, has died. He was 82. Clark’s death was announced by his family, who said he died on Tuesday after a ...

Morgan Freeman starred as Clark in the 1989 film Lean on Me that was loosely based on Clark’s tenure at Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of ...

Joe Clark, the baseball bat-wielding former New Jersey principal who was the inspiration for the 1989 movie “Lean on Me,” has died after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said.

We are sad to report that New Jersey high school principal, Joe Clark, has died at 82. He was the inspiration behind Morgan Freeman’s character in the 1989 film Lean on Me. As the principal of ...

Joe Louis Clark, an uncompromising educator who made national headlines by roaming the halls of Paterson's Eastside High School wielding a baseball bat, has died at 82. Clark died Tuesday at his home ...

Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding Principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods at Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside High School ...

Gainesville, Fla. — Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean ...

Joe Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida ...