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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-09-26 (111 years old)

Place of Birth

Hackney, London, England, UK

Basil Clarke

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.

Known For

Acting

1999

Praise as Footless Old Man

1998

They as Four

1997

Oscar and Lucinda as Elderly Parishoner

1994

Muriel's Wedding as Funeral Priest

1992

Resistance as Starkweather

1991

1989

Candy Regentag as George
The Blood of Heroes as Red City Overlord
E Street as Reverend Jimmy McCabe

1988

Young Einstein as Charles Darwin

1987

Rafferty's Rules as Clarrie Clarke

1984

Where the Green Ants Dream as Judge Blackburn

1979

1976

1972

The Love Box as Old Man

1970