Ernest Clark
A distinguished stage actor, Ernest Clark was best known to British television viewers for his role as the crusty "Sir Geoffrey Loftus" in the long running "Doctor" comedy series during the 1970s.
Born in Maida Vale, Clark was the son of a master builder and was educated at Marylebone Grammar School. His first job was as a reporter on a local newspaper and he was also a keen amateur actor.
He made his first professional appearance at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge in 1937 and, throughout the 1930s and 40s, was rarely off the West End stage. In New York in 1950, he garnered rave reviews for his appearance in T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party".
A prolific screen character actor, he was usually cast in cold, tight-lipped roles in British war films.
He was vice-president of Equity, the British actor's union, from 1964-69 and president from 1970-73. An articulate, outspoken and often witty commentator for the acting profession, he always argued on the side of regulated entry into what he described as "an overcrowded industry".
Clark's first two marriages were dissolved. His third wife was 'Julia Lockwood', the daughter of the British film star Margaret Lockwood.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Patrick Newley
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3464 |
| Birthday | 1912-02-12 |
| Place of Birth | Paddington, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Ernest William Clark, |
1954
Beau Brummell
6.5/34
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of W...
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Beau Brummell
1961
Partners in Crime
5.7/3
British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who...
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Partners in Crime
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
6.8/116
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...
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Sink the Bismarck!
1954
Father Brown
6.4/29
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Father Brown
1963
Ladies Who Do
7/13
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save thei...
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Ladies Who Do
1954
Doctor in the House
6.5/29
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...
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Doctor in the House
1965
Masquerade
5/16
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Masquerade
1958
Blind Spot
5.5/5
US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves...
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Blind Spot
1970
The Executioner
5.7/12
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
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The Executioner
1957
The Man in the Sky
7.318/11
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. A...
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The Man in the Sky
1966
Finders Keepers
5.7/3
Cliff Richard and the Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it. The Shadows look fo...
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Finders Keepers
1955
The Dam Busters
6.935/155
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S...
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The Dam Busters
1967
It!
6.1/30
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged....
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It!
1993
Queen of the Wild Frontier
0/0
Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by Fion...
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Queen of the Wild Frontier
1962
Time to Remember
5.5/2
A gang of jewel thieves rob a house which has just become empty following the recent death of it's rich lady owner. The robbery is not a complete succ...
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Time to Remember
1966
The Stable Door
0/0
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as...
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The Stable Door
1969
Run a Crooked Mile
8/2
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wa...
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Run a Crooked Mile
1957
The Birthday Present
7.1/4
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....
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The Birthday Present
1934
The Circus Clown
6/1
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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The Circus Clown
1956
1984
6.528/141
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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1984
1965
The Secret of My Success
7/2
Arthur Tate is a dull-minded, low-ranking police officer in a small English town. However, with help from his kindly, perceptive mother, Arthur solves...
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The Secret of My Success
1982
Gandhi
7.562/2492
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi
1970
Song of Norway
4.6/7
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian...
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Song of Norway
1968
Salt & Pepper
5.217/23
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partak...
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Salt & Pepper
1956
Reach for the Sky
6.829/38
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing lead...
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Reach for the Sky
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
6.7/19
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1949
Obsession
6.8/55
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Obsession
1967
The Cuckoo Patrol
3.9/7
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
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The Cuckoo Patrol
1964
The Devil-Ship Pirates
5.6/25
A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into a village on the British coast for repairs. The vi...
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The Devil-Ship Pirates
1966
Arabesque
6.3/179
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is r...
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Arabesque
1984
Memed My Hawk
5/3
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province'...
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Memed My Hawk
1964
Boy With a Flute
10/1
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never ha...
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Boy With a Flute
1960
A Touch of Larceny
5.9/16
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that...
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A Touch of Larceny
1958
The Safecracker
5.8/6
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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The Safecracker
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
2/1
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1991
The Pope Must Die
4.9/26
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and...
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The Pope Must Die
1958
A Woman of Mystery
4.7/3
UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.
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A Woman of Mystery
1963
Tomorrow at Ten
5.7/12
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
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Tomorrow at Ten
1958
I Accuse!
6.1/5
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...
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I Accuse!
1963
Billy Liar
6.8/124
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him...
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Billy Liar
1957
Time Without Pity
6.6/49
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity
1963
A Stitch in Time
7.4/34
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Li...
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A Stitch in Time
1956
The Baby and the Battleship
6/8
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to ret...
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The Baby and the Battleship
1964
Nothing But the Best
5.8/10
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a b...
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Nothing But the Best
1949
When We Are Married
0/0
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that th...
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When We Are Married
1961
Three on a Spree
6/4
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
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Three on a Spree
1950
The Mudlark
6.5/8
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
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The Mudlark
1964
Master Spy
6/2
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the Britis...
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Master Spy
1966
Eye of the Devil
6.1/59
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
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Eye of the Devil
1968
The Chequers Manoeuvre
0/0
An army camp somewhere in England, deserted, or so it seems until you look more closely. For there you will find four men and one woman talking. From...
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The Chequers Manoeuvre
1961
No Love for Johnnie
6.2/8
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
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