LOS ANGELES—Veteran adult director David Aaron Clark passed away of a pulmonary embolism at around 4 pm this afternoon at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. He was 49.

Clark was taken to the hospital yesterday after complaining that he felt ill. With him at the time of his passing were two of his closest friends, adult actress Aiden Starr and Evil Angel general manager Christian Mann. Mann confirmed Clark’s death to AVN Saturday evening.

Clark’s untimely demise came just three days after he received multiple nominations in the 2010 AVN Awards race for his latest epic, Pure, which also happened to be his very first project for Evil Angel. Among the noms Pure picked up were: Best Actor (Keni Styles), Best Actress (Asa Akira), Best Supporting Actor (Jake Malone), Best Couples Sex Scene, Best Music Soundtrack, Best Special Effects, Best Screenplay, Best Director – Feature and Best Video Feature.

Clark was born Sept. 5, 1960 in Camden, N.J. and earned a degree in journalism from Rutgers University in 1986. After stints at The Bergen Record, the New Brunswick Home News Tribune and the Dow Jones News Service, he became an editor at Genesis magazine, and then at notorious Al Goldstein publication Screw.

He came to Los Angeles in 1998 and got his start directing XXX movies at Cream Studios. He soon established a trademark for himself of shooting only Asian women, often with a bent toward the fetishistic. He won the AVN Award for Best Screenplay – Video in 2002 for Brad Armstrong’s Euphoria (Wicked Pictures), followed by Best Ethnic-Themed Release – Asian in 2004 for Asia Noir 2 (Video Team/Metro).

Mann offered the simple comment about Clark’s death: "I’m just fucking devastated, and I have nothing else to say right now."

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RIP, DAC

I feel that sentiment. David was one of the first people (along with Brian Surewood & many others) I met during AEE in 2006.

To make that feeling worse, after researching IAFD this time last year, I realized we didn't have a headshot for him. I took down his data & grabbed this pose at the Evil Angel booth - the place he usually called home at each show.

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RIP my fellow Jerseyian! You will be missed.

Sadness. I just read this. I had no idea. David was exceptional, everything about him. Everyone who has ever met him knows what I mean. It's really upsetting. R.I.P. DAC.

This is just sad. And too close to home.

RIP

A shame, he had excellent taste in Asian women and was far better spoken than your average pornographer.

R.I.P.

I saw David about 6 months ago and he was always the same: upbeat, positive attitude, with a great sense of humour. He will be missed.

My sympathies guys ! Awfully young to go !

That fat fuck was going to die from something heart-related sooner or later anyways....I guess this is close enough.



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He hated me. lol Once called me the Loch Ness monster of porn. Heard about but never seen. He wrote this to me on LIB but I can't find it now. Thought I had saved it but I didn't. He wrote more but it was hilarious. R.I.P.

It should have been you PainfulAzzFuckin instead of David.

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unfortunate. many moons ago dac was so intolerable to me i think he was about the first stranger that got his own phillipic. total misfire, he had to do the pseudo-intellectual tripe on adt, etc. as part of the corner he'd painted himself into to keep employed but he couldn't admit how jealous he was of those of us who got to fuck with the sacred cows of the day on adt without consequence. i wish i had been right about the guy being so delusionally self-assured about everything, but he knew how full of shit he was and how cheap he ended up selling that whole rather draining act for and was pretty depressed about it. and this was years before the money went away in porn to make desperation the norm. peace dac, i'd hoped you'd make it out of life alive or at least renumerated well enough it felt like living. james.

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