{"id":2331486,"date":"2026-03-16T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2331486"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:14:25","slug":"back-to-the-future-star-matt-clark-dead-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/back-to-the-future-star-matt-clark-dead-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Back to the Future&#8217; star Matt Clark dead at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBack to the Future\u201d star Matt Clark has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, known for his role as the bartender in the third movie of the trilogy, passed away due to complications of back surgery at his Austin, Texas, home on Sunday, his family<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/16\/actor-matt-clark-dead\/?adid=braze-browser-notification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told TMZ.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His reps weren\u2019t immediately available to Page Six for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This story is developing \u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8809200\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBack to the Future\u201d star Matt Clark has died. He was 89. The actor, known for his role as the bartender in the third movie of the trilogy, passed away due to complications of back surgery at his Austin, Texas, home on Sunday, his family told TMZ. His reps weren\u2019t immediately available to Page Six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2331487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21912],"class_list":["post-2331486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Back-to-the-Future-star-Matt-Clark-dead-at-89.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331488,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331486\/revisions\/2331488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}