Warren clarke actor biography

Although his baggy features, giant build and Lancashire accent earmarks of tailor-made for roles as heavies, industrialists and dour cops much as Andy Dalziel in Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC, 1996-2007), Community Clarke has also demonstrated skilful flair for comedy throughout monarch long and varied career.

Upon abandonment school he started work mistakenness the Manchester Evening News, nevertheless an interest in amateur interim eventually led to appearances enjoy Huddersfield Rep and the Liverpool Playhouse.

After assorted television gift film work in the reversal 60s he gained his extreme standout role as Dim, loftiness resentful Droog who rebels be drawn against Malcolm McDowell's Alex in A Clockwork Orange (d. Stanley Filmmaker, 1971).

Over the next decade her highness lived-in face became an progressively familiar one on British ask, as he portrayed Winston Churchill in Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (ITV, 1974) and murderous pedagogue Bradley Headstone in Our Common Friend (BBC, 1976).

He very provided a memorable turn reorganization an effete civil servant set in motion Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (BBC, 1979), and further displayed sovereign comic abilities via guest roles in Shelley (ITV, 1982), Blackadder the Third (BBC, tx. 15/10/1987) and Lovejoy (BBC, tx.

20/1/1991).

In Sleepers (BBC, 1991) he gave a sensitive performance as ambush of a pair of Indigen secret agents who have momentary their cover lives in England for so long that they are reluctant to answer ethics call to arms when chuck it down finally comes. By now Clarke was one of the hardest-working actors in television, but lead status eluded him until began playing Andy Dalziel.

Hard-drinking and chauvinistic, Dalziel was ethics antithesis of Clarke's own persona, but he managed to fend off being typecast. Appearances in rendering 2000s included Boythorn in Bleak House (BBC, 2005), retired thief Syd Woolsey in The Invisibles (BBC, 2008) and corrupt guard superintendent Bill Molloy in Red Riding (Channel 4, 2009).

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