Actor
Basil Clarke
September 26, 1913 · Hackney, London, England, UK
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Susan Prior
2 titles together
Muriel's Wedding, Praise
Christian Manon
2 titles together
Young Einstein, Oscar and Lucinda
Hugh Keays-Byrne
2 titles together
The Blood of Heroes, Where the Green Ants Dream
Max Fairchild
2 titles together
The Blood of Heroes, Where the Green Ants Dream
Ralph Cotterill
2 titles together
Where the Green Ants Dream, Resistance
Lynette Curran
2 titles together
Praise, Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Full filmography · 23
Old Man
as Old Man
2000
Praise
as Footless Old Man
1999
Babe: Pig in the City
as Doctor
19985.7
They
as Four
1998
Oscar and Lucinda
as Elderly Parishoner
19976.4
Muriel's Wedding
as Funeral Priest
19946.8
Resistance
as Starkweather
1992
The Blood of Heroes
as Red City Overlord
19895.8
Young Einstein
as Charles Darwin
19885.2
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
as Mr. McHugh
1988
Tale of a Tiger
as Jacko
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Judge Blackburn
19846.9