🎬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

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Pope Must Die (1991)	Abbot	-	-
2	Gandhi (1982)	Lord Hunter		7.8
3	Salt & Pepper (1968)	Col. Balsom	-	-
4	It! (1967)	Harold Grove	-	-
5	Arabesque (1966)	Beauchamp		7
6	Nothing But the Best (1964)	Roberts		4
7	A Stitch in Time (1963)	Professor Crankshaw		8
8	Tomorrow at Ten (1963)	Police Doctor		6
9	Billy Liar (1963)	Prison Governor		7
10	Sink the Bismarck! (1960)	Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'		7
11	Time Without Pity (1957)	Under Secretary		5.5
12	1984 (1956)	Outer Party Announcer		7
13	The Baby and the Battleship (1956)	Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby		5
14	Reach for the Sky (1956)	Wing Commander Beiseigel		3
15	The Dam Busters (1955)	Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.		7.5
16	Father Brown (1954)	Bishop's Secretary		4
17	Obsession (1949)	-		5