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Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. Clarke primarily worked for TV, writing and directing plays for Rediffusion, LWT, and the BBC. On film, he made only three features, the best known of which is the 1979 youth prison drama Scum, in fact an expansion of a Play for Today production.
Known for
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today — Self – Director, 'Scum' (archive footage)2020
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light — Self (archive footage)2016
- Director: Alan Clarke1991
- Bukovsky — Self - Interviewer (voice)1977
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Family name
- Clarke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wallasey
- Place of death
- Greater London
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- cause of death
- cancer
- date of birth
- 1935-10-28
- date of death
- 1990-07-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Alan Clarke
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