Warren Clarke
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Warren Clarke (26 April 1947 – 12 November 2014) was an English actor.
After playing Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, he appeared in numerous films.
Dalziel and Pascoe (as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel), The Managers, and Sleepers were among his television appearances.
Early life
Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England. His father was a glass artist, and his mother was a secretary. He left Barlow Hall Secondary Modern School, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, aged 15, and began working at Manchester Evening News as a copy boy. He went on to amateur dramatics and appeared at Huddersfield Rep before starting as an actor full time. During this time, he changed his first name to Warren, a nickname he chose because his girlfriend of the time had a crush on Warren Beatty.
Personal life
Clarke was a keen golfer and had been a Manchester City supporter since the age of seven.
Clarke's marriage to his first wife ended in divorce just a few years after his parents died. Rowan and Rowan had a boy together. He had a daughter, Georgia, by his second wife, Michelle.
Clarke lost money by investing in The Numbers Station, a 2013 adventure film. After a brief illness, Clarke died in his sleep on November 12, 2014. He lived in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Career
Clarke's first television appearance in the long-running Granada soap opera Coronation Street was as Kenny Pickup in 1966 and then as Gary Bailey in 1968. In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), Dim opposite Malcolm McDowell played a "droog" in Dim. In the film O Lucky Man, he appeared with McDowell once more. (1973) and Gulag (1985), a television film from Gulag (1985).
Clarke appeared in a variety of films and television series including The Breaking of Bumbo (1970), Home (1972), Sidney and Cleopatra (1976), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Masada (1981), Enigma (1981), Lassiter (1984), Top Secret! (1984), Ishtar (1987) and I.D. (1995). In Clint Eastwood's Firefox (1982), he appeared as a Russian dissident.
Clarke played the overtly homosexual 'Sophie' Dixon in Granada Television's series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), and he was Colonel Krieger in the first series of LWT's Wish Me Luck (1988). Clarke played Captain Lee in the film Crusoe in 1989. In the TV version of David Lodge's Nice Work, he appeared as Martin Fisher, the chairman of a football club, and Vic Wilcox, the Managing Director of an engineering company. He appeared in "Bin Diving," a Lovejoy episode. In 1990, he appeared in the episode "Odi, et Amo" of the situation comedy Chelmsford 123. Larry Patterson appeared in Gone to the Dogs (1991), which was followed by the film Gone to Seed (1992), in which Clarke appeared again. Bradley Headstone appeared in Our Mutual Friend (the 1976 TV mini-series) as Bradley Headstone.
Clarke, Nigel Havers, and Sleepers (1991), Clarke, sleeper agents who lived in Britain and led their own lives until they were revived. In the ITV comedy-drama Moving Story (1994), he played Bamber. His comedic talents can be seen in the one-off special Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, in which he appeared alongside Oliver Cromwell and in the episode "Amy and Amiability" of the series Blackadder the Third.
He appeared in 11 series as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel, based on Reginald Hill's crime novels.
He appeared in the drama The Locksmith in 1997. Clarke, a father who moved his family from London to a Devon farm in the BBC TV series Down to Earth, played Brian Addis, from 2000 to 2003. Mr Boythorn appeared in Bleak House's dramatization (2005) and starred Anthony Head in the BBC drama The Invisibles (2008) and the Channel 4 trilogy Red Riding (2009).
Clarke appeared in Agatha Christie's Marple ITV production Around the same time, Clarke appeared as Commander Peters. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009). He appeared in ITV's Lewis ("Dark Matter"), Chuggington (2010), the BBC series Inspector George Gently ("Peace and Love"), and in BBC's Just William, he appeared in Mr Bott. In Midsomer Murders ("The Night of the Stag") and as John Lacey in Call the Midwife (also 2011).
Charles Poldark appeared in Poldark, beginning in 2014 as Charles Poldark. Clarke's last scene in the series, in which Poldark lies on his deathbed before dying, was also Clarke's last scene as an actor: he was ill at the time of filming and died a few weeks later; the first episode of the television series was then dedicated to his memory.