Warren Clarke

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Warren Clarke (actually Alan James Clarke ; born April 26, 1947 in Oldham , Lancashire ; † November 12, 2014 ) was a British actor .

Life

Clarke left school when he was 15 and started working as a delivery boy for the Manchester Evening News . With the desire to become a professional actor later , he first worked in amateur theater and appeared in Huddersfield and the Liverpool Playhouse . Since his first professional appearances as an actor in 1965 in the British television series Pardon the Expression and Coronation Street, Warren Clarke has appeared in a total of 126 films and television productions, for example as Dim in A Clockwork Orange in 1971 , in SOS Titanic in 1979 , in Masada in 1981 , in Crusoe in 1989 , 1995 in The Bible - Josef and Undercover and 2000 in Greenfingers - Tough Guys and Tender Tricks . Clarke continued to work as a stage actor until the late 1970s, but then concentrated entirely on film and television roles.

German television viewers could also see it in episodes of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (1968), Die Füchse (1975), Die Onedin-Linie (1978), The incredible stories of Roald Dahl (1981), Sherlock Holmes muss die (1990), See The Doctor and the Dear Cattle (1990), Inspector Barnaby (2011) or Sooner or Later (2001). In the UK, the crime series Dalziel and Pascoe achieved cult status, in which he played the title role of Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel from 1996 to 2007. Since 2000 he has also acted behind the camera as a production consultant and directed two episodes . Major projects since then have been the Northern Ireland six-part series The Invisibles in 2008 and the three-part Yorkshire Killer in 2009 . In 2011 he was one of the main characters in the six-episode sitcom In with the Flynns .

Clarke lived in Buckinghamshire and was a keen golfer and fan of Manchester City FC football club . With his second wife Mrs. Michèle, whom he married in 1987, he had a daughter, Georgia Mabel (* 1998). His son Rowan (* 1971) comes from his first marriage.

His last role was that of Charles Poldark in the television series Poldark . He died on November 12, 2014 after a brief illness at the age of 67.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Warren Clarke - obituary in: The Guardian , November 12, 2014
  2. ^ Poldark new series with Warren Clarke as Charles Poldark on BCC1 . In: Scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk . March 8, 2015. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved on March 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Warren Clarke - obituary In: The Daily Telegraph, November 12, 2014 (accessed November 13, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Warren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarke, Alan James (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldham , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2014