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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film ...

PATERSON, N.J. — Joe Louis Clark, the principal at Paterson, New Jersey's Eastside High who inspired a major motion picture, died Tuesday at the age of 82, his family announced. A longtime resident of ...

Clark was at home and surrounded by his family when he succumbed to his long battle with illness on Tuesday A longtime resident of South Orange, NJ, Clark (82) retired to Gainesville, Florida. He was ...

In the late 1980s, Morgan Freeman portrayed famed high school principal, Joe Clark, in the movie "Lean on Me." After watching the movie, I thought back to my Atlantic City High School vice principal ...

Joe Clark, the inspiration for John G. Avildsen’s 1989 film Lean On Me has died. Clark’s family shared in a statement that the retired New Jersey high school principal died on Tuesday in his ...