Basil Clarke
Date of birth: 1913-09-26
Place of birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Basil Claude Hudson Clarke, Basil Clark
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.
Movie Credits
A Life Is Forever
1972-10-16
Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experi
The Moon Over the Alley
1976-04-02
A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding h
Rubia's Jungle
1970-12-03
A man obsesses over Rubia as the girl of his dreams, but she is lost in a world of her own as she ob
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
1988-03-28
The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984-08-31
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants
Oscar and Lucinda
1997-12-31
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican mini
Candy Regentag
1989-06-24
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join B
Babe: Pig in the City
1998-11-25
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but afte
Praise
1999-04-22
An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem
Resistance
1992-01-01
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a
Young Einstein
1988-12-15
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the be
Tale of a Tiger
1984-10-02
Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters
The Love Box
1972-06-05
Eleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an orgy
My Brilliant Career
1979-08-17
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family w
The Blood of Heroes
1989-10-19
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal g
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972-07-13
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a t
Muriel's Wedding
1994-09-29
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she ho
They
1998-02-22
"They say..." phrases are prescribed by the 'They' secret planning committee rather than developing