Stephen Clark

Father & Husband
Personal Details
Status	Dead (pre-apocalypse)
Age	Late thirties to early forties
Gender	Male
Actor	N/A
Appearances
Seasons	1, 2 (Mentioned only)
First Seen	Pilot (Mentioned)
Last Seen	Date of Death (Mentioned)
Death Episode	6 years before Season 1
Appeared in	Never Appeared
Biography
Occupation	Construction Site Worker
Date of Birth	Unknown
Place of Origin	Fear The Walking Dead
Date of Death	~2004 or ~2010(see Background)
Cause of Death	Suicide via Car Accident.
Physical Attributes
Ethnicity	Unknown
Hair	Unknown
Eye	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Family
Madison Clark - wife Alicia Clark - daughter Nick Clark - son

“	I love you all, but enough’s enough.	”
	— Stephen Clark, in his suicide note.

“	Daddy was always The Shoe.	”
	— Alicia as the Clarks start playing Monopoly, The Dog

Stephen Clark is Madison Clark's late husband; he died in an auto wreck (a head on car crash) before the events described in "Pilot".

The Dave Erickson interview referenced above suggests that Stephen Clark's death was about 6 years before the events described in "Pilot". However, in the Season 2 episode "Grotesque" we are shown Nick being told about his father's death by Madison when she visits him in a rehab center. The age of the two characters and the fact that Gloria was also in that rehab center at the same time seems to put the date of Stephen's death much closer to the events in "Pilot" (but still long enough before for Madison to have 'moved on').

Biography

Background

Not much is known about the life of Stephen Clark. Judging by comments made by his widow Madison to Strand he was a man who had a "darkness inside," as she can see that same darkness in Nick.

• He died in an auto wreck.
• From the Dave Erickson interview - Stephen died about 6 years before the events depicted in "Pilot", Pilot is set in mid to late 2010 so this puts his death at about 2004. However, this seems to be contradicted by the flashbacks in "Grotesque" which put his death as late as 2010.
• The Clarks play Monopoly as a family, Stephen used to play as "The Shoe"
• In the Clark house, there are writings on the wall saying that he appeared to be 5’8” tall.
• Alicia implied, in "The Dog" that waiting for Travis to get back reminded her, uncomfortably, of waiting for her father on the occasion when he didn't get back. This could imply that the auto wreck happened to him while his family was expecting him home.
• In the episode "Date of Death, Madison tells Alicia, that despite what she'd said before, that Stephen had committed suicide. She also reveals that the note read just. "I love you all, but enough's enough."

Stephen Clarke's former home during the outbreak

• During an October 2020 interview with The Natural Aristocrat, Alycia Debnam-Carey commented on if she would like a flashback scene featuring Alicia and her father on Fear the Walking Dead. "Yeah! I’ve never even thought about doing a flashback like that! But I’m always for showing some of the more revealing aspects of a character, before this whole apocalypse.  And I do think it’s tragic…"