Mark Hammer was born on April 28, 1937 in San Jose, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Meet the Parents (2000), Being There (1979) and It Runs in the Family (2003). He was married to Carolyn Swift Jones and Edna Joyce Clark. He died on February 15, 2007 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
Was a long-time faculty member of the Catholic University Drama
Department.
Died in a Jersey City hospital of complications from renal failure,
diabetes and sepsis.
Attended Stanford University as well as Catholic University, where he
earned his master's degree in theater in 1962.
Acting in several productions at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage from
1973 to 1991, he also appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival
in Central Park and played King Creon to Diana Rigg's "Medea" on
Broadway.