Alan Clarke

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-10-28 (55 years old)

Deathday

1990-07-24

Place of Birth

Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK

Alan Clarke

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. As Dave Rolinson's book (see 'Further reading', below) on Clarke details, between 1962 and 1966 Clarke directed several plays at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London. Between 1967 and 1969 he directed various...

Acting

1977

Bukovsky

as Self - Interviewer (voice)

2016

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1983

Made in Britain

as Director

1979

Scum

as Director

1989

Elephant

as Director

1989

The Firm

as Director

1987

1977

Scum

as Director

1982

Baal

as Director

1974

Penda's Fen

as Director

1987

Road

as Director

1987

Christine

as Director

1985

Contact

as Director

1981

Beloved Enemy

as Director

1976

Fast Hands

as Director

1975

Diane

as Director

1975

Diane

as Writer

1972

Under the Age

as Director

1974

1970

1975

Funny Farm

as Director

1978

Nina

as Director

1981

Psy-Warriors

as Director

1978

Danton's Death

as Director

1967

Shelter

as Director

1972

Horace

as Director

1967

1967

George's Room

as Director

1968

Goodnight Albert

as Director

1968

Thief

as Director

1968

Stella

as Director

1968

1983

Brief Encounters

as Director

1984

The British Desk

as Director

1980

Vodka Cola

as Producer

1969

The Comic

as Director

1980

Vodka Cola

as Director

1969

The Piano Tuner

as Director

1973

Achilles Heel

as Director

1972

1977

Bukovsky

as Director

1977

Bukovsky

as Producer

1971

1973

Man Above Men

as Director

1972

1978

1987

Christine

as Writer

1967

A Man Inside

as Director

1968

1968

Gareth

as Director

1969

1969

The Ladies: Joan

as Director

1984

Waterbag

as Producer

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