Alan Clarke
Born: 1935-10-28 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
Died: 1990-07-24
Known For: Directing
Biography
Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. Clarke primarily worked for TV, writing and directing plays for Rediffusion, LWT, and the BBC. On film, he made only three features, the best known of which is the 1979 youth prison drama Scum, in fact an expansion of a Play for Today production.
Filmography
2020
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today as Self – Director, 'Scum' (archive footage)
2016
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Rita, Sue and Bob Too ... (Director)
- Christine ... (Director)
- Road ... (Director)
1986
- ScreenPlay ... (Director)
1985
- Screen Two ... (Director)
- Alive from Off Center ... (Director)
- Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire ... (Director)
- Contact ... (Director)
1984
- Waterbag ... (Producer)
- Stars of the Roller State Disco ... (Director)
- The British Desk ... (Director)
1983
- Tales Out of School ... (Director)
- Made in Britain ... (Director)
- Brief Encounters ... (Director)
1982
- Baal ... (Director)
1981
- Beloved Enemy ... (Director)
- Psy-Warriors ... (Director)
1980
- Vodka Cola ... (Director)
1979
- Scum ... (Director)
1978
- Nina ... (Director)
- Danton's Death ... (Director)
1976
- Plays for Britain ... (Director)
- Fast Hands ... (Director)
1975
- Diane ... (Director)
- Funny Farm ... (Director)
1974
- Playhouse ... (Director)
- A Follower for Emily ... (Director)
- Penda's Fen ... (Director)
1973
- The Love-Girl and the Innocent ... (Director)
- Achilles Heel ... (Director)
- Man Above Men ... (Director)
1972
- The Edwardians ... (Director)
- To Encourage the Others ... (Director)
- Horace ... (Director)
- A Life Is Forever ... (Director)
- Horatio Bottomley ... (Director)
- Under the Age ... (Director)
1971
- Everybody Say Cheese ... (Director)
1970
- Play for Today ... (Director)
- I Can't See My Little Willie ... (Director)
- Sovereign's Company ... (Director)
- The Hallelujah Handshake ... (Director)
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre ... (Director)
- Plays of Today ... (Director)
- The Gold Robbers ... (Director)
- The Comic ... (Director)
- The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel ... (Director)
- The Piano Tuner ... (Director)
- The Ladies: Doreen ... (Director)
- The Ladies: Joan ... (Director)
1968
- The Company of Five ... (Director)
- A Man of our Times ... (Director)
- Stand by Your Screen ... (Director)
- Stella ... (Director)
- Thief ... (Director)
- Nothing's Ever Over ... (Director)
- Got Yourself Sorted Out at All? ... (Director)
- The Fifty-Seventh Saturday ... (Director)
- Sally Go Round the Moon ... (Director)
- Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We? ... (Director)
- Goodnight Albert ... (Director)
1967
- Half Hour Story ... (Director)
- Shelter ... (Director)
- Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? ... (Director)
- George's Room ... (Director)
- A Man Inside ... (Director)
- The Gentleman Caller ... (Director)
1966
- The Informer ... (Director)
- Seven Deadly Sins ... (Assistant Unit Manager)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month ... (Director)
- Thirty-Minute Theatre ... (Director)
1964
- The Wednesday Play ... (Director)