Basil Clarke

Born: 1913-09-26

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.


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as Doctor
Released: 1998-11-25

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but...

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Young Einstein

as Charles Darwin
Released: 1988-12-15

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting...

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Muriel's Wedding

as Funeral Priest
Released: 1994-09-29

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where...

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The Blood of Heroes

as Red City Overlord
Released: 1989-10-19

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the...

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Oscar and Lucinda

as Elderly Parishoner
Released: 1997-12-31

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican...

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My Brilliant Career

as Butler
Released: 1979-08-17

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her...

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Where the Green Ants Dream

as Judge Blackburn
Released: 1984-08-31

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green...

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

as Abbot
Released: 1972-07-13

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken...

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Resistance

as Starkweather
Released: 1992-01-01

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and...

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The Moon Over the Alley

as Mr. Deray
Released: 1976-04-02

A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill...

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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey

as Mr. McHugh
Released: 1988-03-28

The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had...

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Candy Regentag

as George
Released: 1989-06-24

Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel....

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The Love Box

as Old Man
Released: 1972-06-05

Eleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an...

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A Life Is Forever

as uncredited
Released: 1972-10-16

Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will...

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Tale of a Tiger

as Jacko
Released: 1984-10-02

Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he...

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Praise

as Footless Old Man
Released: 1999-04-22

An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low...

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They

as Four
Released: 1998-02-22

"They say..." phrases are prescribed by the 'They' secret planning committee rather than...

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Rubia's Jungle

as uncredited
Released: 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...

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E Street

as Reverend Jimmy McCabe
First aired: 1989-01-24

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...

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Rafferty's Rules

as Clarrie Clarke
First aired: 1987-02-12

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the...

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Ring of Scorpio

as Digby
First aired: 1991-04-24

Three women plot revenge against a drug dealer who scammed them into working in his operations.

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