Basil Clarke

Basil Clarke

Born: September 26, 1913
Died: November 28, 2004
in 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.

Movies for Basil Clarke...

Praise
Title: Praise
Character: Footless Old Man
Released: April 22, 1999
Type: Movie
An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex.
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Babe: Pig in the City
Title: Babe: Pig in the City
Character: Doctor
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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They
Title: They
Character: Four
Released: February 22, 1998
Type: Movie
"They say..." phrases are prescribed by the 'They' secret planning committee rather than developing organically from hearsay.
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Oscar and Lucinda
Title: Oscar and Lucinda
Character: Elderly Parishoner
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
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Muriel's Wedding
Title: Muriel's Wedding
Character: Funeral Priest
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Starkweather
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
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The Blood of Heroes
Title: The Blood of Heroes
Character: Red City Overlord
Released: October 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory
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Candy Regentag
Title: Candy Regentag
Character: George
Released: June 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!
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Title: E Street
Character: Reverend Jimmy McCabe
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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Young Einstein
Title: Young Einstein
Character: Charles Darwin
Released: December 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Title: Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Character: Mr. McHugh
Released: March 28, 1988
Type: Movie
The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
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Tale of a Tiger
Title: Tale of a Tiger
Character: Jacko
Released: October 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger Moth. Orville becomes obsessed with the notion that the Tiger might fly once more and the adventure begins when he and Harry set out to achieve that goal.
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Title: Where the Green Ants Dream
Character: Judge Blackburn
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
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My Brilliant Career
Title: My Brilliant Career
Character: Butler
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
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The Moon Over the Alley
Title: The Moon Over the Alley
Character: Mr. Deray
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
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A Life Is Forever
Title: A Life Is Forever
Released: October 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experience the harsh realities of the brutality and day to day drudgery of prison life.
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Title: Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Character: Abbot
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
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The Love Box
Title: The Love Box
Character: Old Man
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Eleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an orgy in Kilburn.
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Rubia's Jungle
Title: Rubia's Jungle
Released: December 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A man obsesses over Rubia as the girl of his dreams, but she is lost in a world of her own as she obsesses after a man who doesn't know she exists.