Ernest Clark
Acting
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
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Father (Voice)
The Pope Must Die
Abbot
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Chorus
Memed My Hawk
Hatche's Father
Gandhi
Lord Hunter
Song of Norway
Councilman
The Executioner
Roper
Run a Crooked Mile
Chairman
The Chequers Manoeuvre
The Brigadier
Salt & Pepper
Col. Balsom
The Cuckoo Patrol
Marshall
It!
Harold Grove
Finders Keepers
Air Marshal
Eye of the Devil
French Police Inspector (uncredited)
The Stable Door
Arabesque
Beauchamp
The Secret of My Success
Earl of Aldershot's solicitor
Masquerade
Minister
Master Spy
Dr. Pembury
The Devil-Ship Pirates
Sir Basil Smeeton
Nothing But the Best
Roberts
Boy With a Flute
Sir George Noble
A Stitch in Time
Professor Crankshaw
Ladies Who Do
Stockbroker
Billy Liar
Prison Governor
Tomorrow at Ten
Police Doctor
Time to Remember
Cracknell
Three on a Spree
Colonel Drew
No Love for Johnnie
M.P. (uncredited)
Partners in Crime
Ashton
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
A Touch of Larceny
Cmdr. Bates
Blind Spot
F. G. Fielding
A Woman of Mystery
Mr. Harvey
I Accuse!
Prosecutor at First Dreyfus Trial
The Safecracker
Major Adbury
A Tale of Two Cities
Stryver
The Birthday Present
Barrister
Time Without Pity
Under Secretary
The Man in the Sky
Maine
Reach for the Sky
Wing Commander Beiseigel
The Baby and the Battleship
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
1984
Outer Party Announcer
The Dam Busters
Air Vice-Marshal The Hon. Ralph Cochrane G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.
Beau Brummell
Dr. Warren
Father Brown
Bishop's Secretary
Doctor in the House
Dr. Parrish
The Mudlark
Hammond
Obsession
When We Are Married
Councillor Albert Parker
The Circus Clown
Vaudeville Act