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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. As Dave Rolinson's book (see 'Further reading', below) on Clarke details, between 1962 and 1966 Clarke directed several plays at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, London. Between 1967 and 1969 he directed various ITV productions including plays by Alun Owen (Shelter, George’s Room, Stella, Thief, Gareth), Edna O’Brien (Which Of These Two Ladies Is He Married To? and Nothing’s Ever Over) and Roy Minton (The Gentleman Caller, Goodnight Albert, Stand By Your Screen). He also worked on the series The Informer, The Gold Robbers and A Man Of Our Times (but not, as Sight and Sound once claimed, Big Breadwinner Hog). Clarke continued to work for ITV through the 1970s but now made much of his work for the BBC. This included pieces for The Wednesday Play (Sovereign's Company 1970), Play for Today and Play of the Month. Distinctive work for these strands included further plays by Minton including Funny Farm (1975) and Scum (further details below), but also Sovereign’s Company (1970) by Don Shaw, The Hallelujah Handshake (1970) by Colin Welland and Penda’s Fen (1974) by David Rudkin. He also made To Encourage the Others (1972), a powerful drama documentary about the Derek Bentley case, and several documentaries, including Vodka Cola (1981) on multinational corporations. A number of his works achieved notoriety and widespread criticism from the conservative end of the political spectrum, including Scum (1977), dealing with the subject of borstals (youth prisons), which was banned by the BBC, and subsequently remade by Clarke as a feature film in 1979 (the original television version was eventually screened after his death). His 1982 television play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth (in his television debut) as a racist skinhead and his negative relationship with authorities and racial minorities, was based on a screenplay by David Leland. He directed the feature film Rita, Sue and Bob Too released in 1987. Clarke's work in the 1980s is fiercely stark and political, including the David Leland plays Beloved Enemy (1981) on multinational corporations and Psy-Warriors (1981) on military interrogation. But he also directed David Bowie in Baal (1982) for the BBC, part of Clarke’s interest in Bertolt Brecht. His film work became more sparse, culminating in Contact (1984) on the British military presence in Northern Ireland, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985), Road (1987) and his short film (40 mins.) Elephant (1989) which dealt with 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland and featured a series of shootings with no narrative and hardly any dialogue; all were based on accounts of actual sectarian killings that had taken place in Belfast. The film took its title from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the troubles as "the elephant in our living room" - a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social problems of Northern Ireland. His final production, The Firm (1989), covered football hooliganism through the lead character played by Gary Oldman, but also the politics of Thatcher’s Britain. Clarke inspired a generation of actors, writers and directors, including Paul Greengrass, Stephen Frears, Tim Roth, Ray Winstone, Gary Oldman, Danny Brocklehurst and Iain MacDonald. Filmmaker Harmony Korine has cited Clarke as a major influence on his work. Clarke's son is Gabriel Clarke, an award-winning sports journalist with ITV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Clarke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1935-10-28
- event Death Date 1990-07-24
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1.3
- info Birth Place Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
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Made in Britain
1982-02-25
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Scum
1979-09-12
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Elephant
1989-01-25
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The Firm
1989-02-26
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
1987-05-20
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Scum
1977-11-08
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Baal
1982-02-02
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Penda's Fen
1974-03-21
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Road
1987-10-07
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985-11-25
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Christine
1987-09-23
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Contact
1985-01-06
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Beloved Enemy
1981-02-10
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Fast Hands
1976-05-03
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Diane
1975-07-09
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Diane
1975-07-09
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The Hallelujah Handshake
1970-12-17
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To Encourage the Others
1972-03-27
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Under the Age
1972-03-19
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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
1969-10-01
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A Follower for Emily
1974-07-04
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Sovereign's Company
1970-04-21
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Funny Farm
1975-02-27
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Nina
1978-10-17
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Psy-Warriors
1981-07-17
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Danton's Death
1978-04-23
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Horace
1972-03-21
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George's Room
1967-09-30
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The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
1968-07-03
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Shelter
1967-05-19
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The Gentleman Caller
1967-06-16
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Thief
1968-07-24
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Goodnight Albert
1968-02-06
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Stella
1968-06-19
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The British Desk
1984-01-01
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Brief Encounters
1983-01-01
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Vodka Cola
1980-07-22
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Vodka Cola
1980-07-22
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Stars of the Roller State Disco
1984-12-04
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent
1973-09-16
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Achilles Heel
1973-03-18
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Sally Go Round the Moon
1968-01-18
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The Piano Tuner
1969-03-08
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The Comic
1969-11-29
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Stand by Your Screen
1968-12-08
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A Life Is Forever
1972-10-16
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Bukovsky
1977-01-01
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Bukovsky
1977-01-01
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Man Above Men
1973-03-19
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I Can't See My Little Willie
1970-11-19
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Everybody Say Cheese
1971-06-03
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Horatio Bottomley
1972-11-28
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Danton's Death
1978-04-23
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Christine
1987-09-23
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Play for Today
1970-10-15
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BBC Play of the Month
1965-10-19
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The Edwardians
1972-11-21
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The Company of Five
1968-11-03
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The Gold Robbers
1969-06-06
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Tales Out of School
1983-06-19