Basil Clarke
Born: 1913-09-26 in Hackney, London, England, UK
Died: 2004-11-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Basil Clarke (September 26, 1913 - November 28, 2004) was an English-New Zealnder actor of the stage, film and television who at 86 won the best actor award at the Tropfest 2000 short film festival. Clarke was an actor who over his long life had three distinct careers and who never retired, remaining on his agent's books until the day he died.
Filmography
2000
- Old Man as Old Man
1999
- Praise as Footless Old Man
1998
- Babe: Pig in the City as Doctor
- They as Four
1997
- Oscar and Lucinda as Elderly Parishoner
1994
- Muriel's Wedding as Funeral Priest
1992
- Resistance as Starkweather
1991
- Ring of Scorpio as Digby
1989
- E Street as Reverend Jimmy McCabe
- The Blood of Heroes as Red City Overlord
- Candy Regentag as George
1988
- Young Einstein as Charles Darwin
- Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey as Mr. McHugh
1987
- Rafferty's Rules as Clarrie Clarke
1984
- Where the Green Ants Dream as Judge Blackburn
- Tale of a Tiger as Jacko
1979
- My Brilliant Career as Butler
1976
- The Moon Over the Alley as Mr. Deray
1975
- The Secret Garden as Pitcher
1972
- The Edwardians as William James Baird Odhams
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Abbot
- A Life Is Forever
- The Love Box as Old Man